Re: [Cz-L] Ringplatz 1860 painting

I can tell you what would have been:
 In addition to all the languages we massacre,
 one more on the agenda.
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Edgar Hauster" <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>
Cc: "Hardy Breier" <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>; "Czernowitz Discussion Group"
<czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2012 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Ringplatz 1860 painting

> Thank you Edgar for explaining.
> Can all of you imagine what we would have been like,
> had we been part of Poland?
>
> Mimi
>
> On Aug 14, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Edgar Hauster wrote:
>
>> Hardy...
>>
>> Thank you for posting and here is - thanks to Dragos Olaru from
>> Czernowitz, who brought the photo and the historical context to us - the
>> story behind this impressive drawing:
>>
>> Bukovina became independent from Galicia establishing a separate
>> Austrian crown land and declared the Duchy of Bukovina on March 4, 1849.
>> But on April 22, 1860 Bukovina again was amalgamated with Galicia under
>> the government of Count Agenor Goluchowski of Goluchowo as Governor of
>> Galicia. A coalition of middle-class intellectuals, irrespective of
>> their ethnicity, opposed vehemently against this re-usurpation. The
>> protest campaign was headed by Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi and his brothers, as
>> well as by Karl Umlauff. They were successfull and Bukovina's status as
>> crown land was restored in 1861. The drawing is illustrating one of the
>> protest demonstrations dated June 20, 1860.
>>
>> I've updated the Czernowitz Art Gallery by adding this outstanding both
>> artistic and historical exhibit:
>>
>> http://czernowitzgallery.blogspot.nl/
>>
>> Enjoy the posting!
>>
>> Edgar Hauster
>> Lent - The Netherlands
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