{"product_id":"riehle-tomas-rheinbruecken-rhine-bridges-9783936681741","title":"Rheinbrücken \/ Rhine Bridges","description":"Manfred Sack, in an essay about bridges: 'The\nLatin word ›relegere‹ means to connect. The assumption\nis that this is the basis of the word religion.\nThe chief priest in Rome was the pontifex\nmaximus, the highest builder of bridges between\nman and god, between this world and the ›other\nworld‹. The Germanic tribes saw the bridge in\nthe rainbow physically before them, it was their\nroad of light to Valhalla. For those who are disheartened,\ndrugs are the bridge of escape into\nother, very illusory, worlds of experience. Tradition\nbuilds bridges from yesterday to tomorrow.\nThere are so many bridges: music, a letter, the\nsounds of a radio, phone conversations, light\nsignals, Morse signals, calls. The building of bridges\nis thus not only a physical process, but a\nspiritual and emotional event, a longing felt by\nthe soul. No wonder that those who design and\ncalculate bridges, who build them and therefore\ntake risks, at least subconsciously sense some\nof the extrasensory significance of their sensory\nactivity.'\nAnd this is all the more true when we are talking\nabout the bridges across the Rhine, the most\nimportant European river, which is wreathed in\nmyths and legends and has inspired poetry and\nmusic like no other. Until the 19th century it was\ncrossed almost exclusively by means of ferries.\nWith the onset of industrialization, more and\nmore goods had to be transported increasingly\nrapidly. Today, over 250 bridges cross the river.\nThey too now shape the unsurpassed diversity\nof the Rhine landscape.\nSince 1987, Riehle has photographed some\n150 Rhine bridges from the river’s headwaters\nin Switzerland to the Rhine’s delta in the Netherlands.\nThe most interesting 100 bridges are\npublished in this book.\nThe son of an architect, Riehle was born in\n1949 in Triberg in the Black Forest, studied industrial\ndesign at the Folkwangschule für Gestaltung\nin Essen from 1971 until 1975 and fine arts\nat the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1975 until\n1980. In Düsseldorf he was the protégé of the\nsculptor Erwin Heerich, who created highly noted\nbuildings on the Museum Insel Hombroich that\nalso shaped the artistic thinking of Riehle.\nGottfried Knapp worked as a film critic for ten\nyears before starting as art, architecture, and\nfilm editor for the arts page of the Süddeutsche\nZeitung. His numerous publications on art-historical\nand architectural themes include monographs\non individual buildings and catalogues\nabout painters, sculptors, draughtsmen, and photographic\nartists. Knapp has won several journalism\nprizes in the fields of architecture and monument\npreservation.","brand":"Edition Axel Menges","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53531208253782,"sku":"9783936681741-V","price":49.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9783936681741_1_b00fc7c6-bdc3-4726-87f7-52ac5eacf149.jpg?v=1778475228","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/riehle-tomas-rheinbruecken-rhine-bridges-9783936681741","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}