“Modern Times. Hanau 1848-1946 ” – Historical Museum Hanau Schloss Philippsruhe

Art, Trade and Society in Hanau between the Pre-March and the Post-War Era
No period before saw such great changes and disruptions in Germany and the whole world as the century between the 1848 Revolution and the reconstruction after the Second World War.

Image caption: Chain of office of the Lord Mayor of Hanau, design Hugo Leven, execution: teacher of the drawing academy, 1927, gold, fine silver, malachite cabochons, rock crystals, lapis lazuli, chrysoprase, black onyx, sapphire, rock crystal, cut, enamelled, chased (© Detlef Sundermann).