STADT DER STERNE – 400 JAHRE BUCHDRUCK IN LÜNEBURG
In the organizer's words:
From fall 2024, Lüneburg will present itself as a city of book printing. 400 years ago, the brothers Johann and Heinrich Stern set up a print shop here, which quickly developed into a center of Bible printing. Stern's Bibles were a bestseller in the Baroque era and, after salt, Lüneburg's most important bestseller. Like the "white gold" before it, the products of the "black art" were transported in barrels and traded throughout northern Europe.
The "stars" offered the Bible in many variations, often illustrated with woodcuts or copperplate engravings. Printed images brought the Bible text to life and captured people's attention. Good illustrations were a means of standing out from the competition in Bible printing - they were the "salt of the Bibles".
Today, in a time of an unprecedented flood of images, these Bible illustrations are reminiscent of the beginnings of modern media society, when images became constant companions to the texts and together shaped people's ideas.
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