German Half-Timber Abstract 2

There is a small house in the town of Schierstein, Germany that caught my attention both because of the way it is painted and also because of the... more

by Sarah Loft

Title

German Half-Timber Abstract 2

Artist

Sarah Loft

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

There is a small house in the town of Schierstein, Germany that caught my attention both because of the way it is painted and also because of the haphazard half-timbering and the curving and bulging of the walls. Somehow, the house manages to stand and has stood for centuries. The first time I walked past it, my granddaughters were taking me to see their school and I laughed when I saw it. The building grew on me, though, and I decided it is really beautiful in its odd way.

Per Wikipedia: Half-timbering refers to a structure with a frame of load-bearing timber, creating spaces between the timbers called panels or in German Facher, which are then filled-in with some kind of non-structural material known as infill. The frame is often left exposed on the exterior of the building.
Half-timbered construction in the Northern European vernacular building style is characteristic of medieval and early modern Denmark, England, Germany, and parts of France and Switzerland, where timber was in good supply yet stone and associated skills to dress the stonework were in short supply. In half-timbered construction timbers that were riven (split) in half provided the complete skeletal framing of the building.

Featured in the Pure Abstract Photography group, June 2015.

Featured in the Art From the Past group, July 2015.

Featured in the Total Abstract Photography group, July 2015.

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June 27th, 2015