Saxon Gift for Germanic Museum

Professor Kuno Francke, eurator of the Germanic Museum, has just received an official message from Saxony to the effect that His Majesty King Friedrich August has given to the Museum a full-sized reproduction in plaster of the sandstone pulpit of the church of Wechselburg, near Leipzig.

This pulpit, which is one of the finest monuments of mediaevel scupture, is an imposing and massive structure, some fifteen feet high, resting on Romanesque columns and richly adorned with high reliefs of singular power and beauty. Together with the colossal Crucifixion group from the Rood Screen of the same church and the monumental bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, which the Germanic Museum has just acquired, this gift of the King of Saxony is a highly important illustration of the remarkable state of perfection reached by German sculpture at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century.

The gift will be placed beside the great collection of casts which the German Emperor has presented to Harvard and which has been augmented from time to time by other important gifts.