Science in culture
Science in culture
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A. Abbott
In 1961, when German artist Hans Neubert was 30 years old, he jumped one of the last trains to west Berlin before the Berlin Wall shot up and sealed so many fates. He left behind in his native Dresden, seemingly forever, a vast number of portraits and landscapes.He also left behind an extraordinary cycle of ten oil-on-canvas wall paintings at the Friedrich Löffler Institute, now the Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals at Insel Riems, a remote Baltic island north of Greifswald in eastern Germany. Löffler, famous for his 1898 discovery of viruses, founded the institute in 1910, and Neubert's cycle was officially unveiled at its 50th anniversary.