A picture by Rupprecht Geiger provokes an immediate response: the force of the colour is well-nigh overpowering. This shade of red, which the artist intersperses time and again with hints of pink or orange, triggers associations of peril and passion.

Unkommentierte Filmaufnahmen zum Thema "Bargeld". Medien können das Footage-Material (in HD-Auflösung) über die Pressestelle der Deutschen Bundesbank anfordern.

Frederick II, of the House of Hohenstaufen and King of Sicily, took an extraordinary step when he started minting gold coins in 1231. This is because, for many centuries, the Christian West had been shaped purely by silver currency. Frederick II’s gold coins, called augustales, were something special: the quality of the image and their embossing are unique for their time. Augustales are extraordinary coins minted by an extraordinary ruler.

You need lots of things in your day-to-day life. Bread, clothes and somewhere to live. Sometimes you also want to go swimming. The Bundesbank keeps the value of money stable to stop prices from going up all the time. The difficult word for this task is monetary policy

Mondrian’s later works – The Victory Boogie Woogie – those lights! That is where we see vibration being incorporated into painting for the first time. It seemed to me […] that he was on the verge of bringing a visual motion into the picture, wrote the Venezuelan artist Jesús Rafael Soto, who lived and worked in Paris.

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