Wanderlust. From Caspar David Friedrich to Auguste Renoir opens at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin on May 10 (Photo: “Solitude” by Hans Thoma).
Photographer Zsolt Hlinka is a big fan of symmetry and is images show buildings from rare angles. His photo series Viennametry spotlights geometric forms in Viennese architecture.
Rügen, Germany’s largest island, would be unthinkable without its famous chalk cliffs. Take the coastal route from Sassnitz to Königsstuhl for the very best views. After a bracing walk by the Baltic Sea, guests of the 5-star Grand Hotel Binz can treat themselves to a pampering session in the hotel’s own Ayurveda Center or order a warming beverage in the Shaker’s Bar (photo).
Anyone can spray walls, but Swiss graffiti artist Guillaume Legros aka Saype uses areas of turf the size of soccer fields as the canvas for his airbrush art, most of it human portraits. A pioneer of this genre between land and street art, Saype uses biodegradable paints he developed himself.
In northeastern Brazil, an estimated 200 million tightly packed earthen mounds cover an area about the size of Great Britain, with a vast tunnel system stretching beneath it. Here, generations of termites have labored for 4000 years – and their descendants are carrying on the good work.
