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  • Bikini story
    Art,  English

    Small Swimsuit, Big impact – the Story of the Bikini

    July 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

    The bikini is more than just a swimsuit - it's a symbol of style, liberation, and changing social norms. Over time, the bikini evolved from scandalous to iconic, embraced by film stars, fashionistas, and beachgoers alike.

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    Ebooks – A vehicle of cultural transmission in Africa

    September 20, 2019

    Rivalen unter sich

    March 7, 2014
    Vieille Ville de Lijiang, Lijiang, à partir d’environ 1200

    Testaments Eternels de la Splendeur : 1000 Monuments de Génie

    March 16, 2023
  • Bikini story
    Art,  Français

    Chauffez votre été : L’histoire du bikini

    June 7, 2024 / 0 Comments

    Plongez dans la riche histoire et l'attrait durable de ce vêtement de plage, en célébrant son rôle dans le façonnement de la culture balnéaire et la redéfinition des notions de beauté et de féminité.

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    Fra Angelico, The Virgin Mary

    How Fra Angelico shaped the image of the Virgin Mary

    December 16, 2025
    Portrait d’isabel Styler-Tas, 1945

    Salvador Dalí – L’énigme sans fin

    September 2, 2022
    Utamaro

    Kitagawa Utamaro, le maître de l’Ukiyo-e et ses portraits pionniers d’Edo

    February 9, 2024
  • Bikini Story
    Art,  English

    Heat up your summer: Exploring the bikini story

    June 4, 2024 / 0 Comments

    Dive into the rich history and enduring allure of this beachwear staple, celebrating its role in shaping beach culture and redefining notions of beauty and femininity.

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    Turner-self-portrait

    J.M.W. Turner

    July 9, 2018

    Rembrandt – The Beginning of his Career

    March 19, 2019
    Marquesa de Santa Cruz, 1805, Goya

    Goya: Blut, Tragödie und ewiges Spanien

    September 8, 2022
  • A swimming pool, Bikini Story
    Art,  English

    Sun, Sand, and Style: The Evolution of the Bikini

    June 6, 2023 / 0 Comments

    The bikini undoubtedly owed a large part of its success to the cinema – which actually featured it at first only because it was scandalous, and scandal filled seats. But it was quite right that there should have been some hesitation over it, for Hollywood had to be careful: initially it banned the bikini from the screen as “too corrupting and immoral.”

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    Sommerlandschaft. Die Gattin des Künstlers auf einer Brücke, 1879

    Ilja Repin – Der begabte Künstler der Gruppe “The Itinerants”

    December 16, 2021
    Der mittelalterliche Iran, Persiens

    Im mittelalterlichen Iran: Die Kunst einer Zivilisation

    February 19, 2026
    Hiroshige

    Hiroshige – Der letzte große Meister der Kunst des Ukiyo-e

    January 26, 2023
  • Art,  English

    Hot Summer time, Hot Bikini

    July 19, 2022 / 0 Comments

    On July 1, 1946, at 9 o’clock in the morning, an atomic bomb exploded with a force of 23,000 tons above Bikini, a coral atoll in the South Pacific hitherto virtually unheard of. More than six disarmed warships of the Japanese and American fleets were sunk and more than twice that number were seriously damaged.

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    „Bedenke, dass du sterben wirst.”

    November 26, 2013

    Exhibition: Impressions of time

    September 26, 2017

    Byzanz – Konstantinopel – Istanbul

    January 8, 2014
  • L’actrice et romancière Anny Duperey (née en 1946 à Rouen), désignée par beaucoup comme la femme rêvée, dans un bikini bleu ciel à Saint-Tropez, Bikini Story
    Art,  Art and Design,  Français

    Bikini ou Burkini – L’Histoire du Bikini

    May 20, 2022 / 0 Comments

    Ce livre décrypte, à travers l'histoire du bikini, l'évolution de la femme, qui assume désormais son corps et revendique l'égalité des sexes. À travers une iconographie très riche, recueillie chez les grands créateurs, ce sont plus de cinquante années de l'histoire féminine qui s'égrènent tout au long de cet ouvrage.

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    La acuarela y el clima

    October 29, 2013
    Süleymaniye Camii (Süleymaniye-Moschee), 1550-1557

    Die Sprache der Gesten: Erforschung des Symbolismus in islamischen Skulpturen

    July 6, 2023

    El buen camino

    April 15, 2014
  • On the beach
    Art,  Art and Design,  English

    Bikini or Burkini – The History of the Bikini

    May 18, 2022 / 0 Comments

    More than a bathing costume, the bikini made its own contribution during the 1970s to the sexual revolution and to the changing relationship between men and women in general.

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    Léon Bakst

    De la scène à la toile – L’art unique de Léon Bakst

    May 2, 2025
    Isaac Levitan

    Isaac Levitan: Painting emotion through “landscape”

    May 12, 2026
    Rêve d’un dimanche après-midi au parc Alameda, 1947-1948

    De la peinture murale au chefs-d’œuvre : L’héritage de Diego Rivera

    April 28, 2023
  • Stanley Kubricks Lolita mit Sue Lyon, 1962, Patrik Alac
    Deutsch,  Ebook

    Eine Kulturgeschichte mit Bikini Story

    July 8, 2021 / 0 Comments

    Im Jahre 1946 entdeckt die Welt auf den Marshallinseln ein Atoll namens Bikini, auf dem die Amerikaner verheerende Atomtests durchführen. Weit mehr als nur ein einfaches Badeutensil trägt der Bikini in den 1970er-Jahren wesentlich zur sexuellen Befreiung und den Veränderungen der Beziehung zwischen den Geschlechtern bei.

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    Das Jüngste Gericht (Detail), 1302-1305, Satan, Beelzebub, Luzifer - Der Teufel in der Kunst

    SATAN, BEELZEBUB, LUZIFER – Der Teufel in der Kunst

    August 5, 2021

    100. Jahrestag des Todes von Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919)

    December 9, 2019
    Homosexualität in der Kunst

    Grenzen brechen: Homosexualität im künstlerischen Ausdruck

    June 27, 2024
  • Retouched photo dating from the end of the 19th century showing a temporary changing-cubicle, Patrik Alac
    Ebook,  English

    A Cultural History with Bikini Story

    July 6, 2021 / 0 Comments

    It was in 1946 that the world first came to hear of a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands called Bikini. This book is a collection of images throughout this book illustrates this progression step-by-step over a period of more than 50 years.

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    Pain de sucre. Maillot de bain Mishi, 2009, Patrik Alac

    Une histoire culturelle avec Bikini Story

    July 9, 2021
    Buddha-banner

    Serenity and Time

    July 4, 2019

    Voyages au Royaume de Perse

    August 13, 2014
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