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German to English Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting Translation Glossary

German term English translation
Kernkonvolut core body of work / core oeuvre
Kernplastik 'monolithic' or 'nuclear', self-contained sculpture/scp. worked out of the block
Kettbändchen warp (tie)
Kirchenschatz church treasuries
Klassische Moderne Classic Modernism
Klausur in seclusion/retreat
kleinfigurig gemalte Staffage small-scale (figural) staffage
Knetkasten modelling clay set/kit
Kojenlandschaft standscape
Kommunikationsraum means/methods of communication
Krippenbaumeister master crib builder / master nativity scene builder
Kulturkommunikatoren intercultural communicators
Entered by: Kathi Stock
Kulturvermittler (independent) art/design/exhibition curator//museum educator
Kunst am Bau architectural sculpture/art/'Kunst am Bau' percent-for-art scheme
Kunst ist die Zauberkraft der menschlichen Seele. art is the magic of the human soul
Entered by: Rowan Morrell
Kunstblüten art abloom
Entered by: Steffen Walter
kunsthandelsübliche Maßnahmen der Aussenwirkung customary methods of artistic and commercial display
Kunstschmiedearbeiten wrought-iron work
Kunstwissenschaftler art expert
kurzgeschlossen coupled / connected
lässt sich nicht einlösen is an unattainable (impossible) goal (has proved an imp.g.)/Thx to Bernhard Sulzer for "unattainable"
lebendiges Altern vibrancy of life ('s journey or progression) / vibrant progression of life
lebensdurstige oder lebensverträumte Frauengestalten female figures, hungry for life or lost in a dreamworld / an imaginary realm
Lichtdruck nach Gouache Lichtdruck (collotype) from goache
Lichthaftigkeit luminosity
Liebhaberstück Collector's piece (item)
ligiert ligated
Liniengestruepp maze of lines/mesh/latticework
Lochpause spolvero/pouncing
Lu Hsün Shujen Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren)
Entered by: Rowan Morrell
Malschichtprobe paint layer sample
Mappenwerk portfolio
Maria-Hilf-Bild (picture of the) Madonna / Blessed Virgin
Materialbild collage
Materialgerechtigkeit truth to material
Materialmalerei mixed media painting
Mäusebesen anti-mice broom
mediale Schärfung media savvy
mehrfach grundierte Leine multi-primed linen
mit Fortsetzung und qualitativer Entwicklung dieser historischen Tatsache Berlins building on and developing this historical feature of Berlin
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