Abstract

“Bright beautiful Andromeda,” “A beautiful galaxy,” “The fiery Andromeda Galaxy,” “Wonderful phenomenon,” “Fascination Cosmos,” “Tycho Brahe Observatory,” “Astronomical Research in Ansbach” … and of course “The greatest moons of Jupiter” and “The astronomer Simon Marius.” The artists of these images and of 25 other original works that are dedicated to the findings of the Franconian astronomer Simon Marius and astronomical researches in general are students of the Youth Art School “Obraz” from Protvino near Moscow. Thirty participants of the project, aged between 4 and 21, worked as a cohesive team on the pictures sent to Nuremberg in November 2013. Their images, in which different techniques of painting were used, formed the thematic focus of a mobile exhibition that was displayed in the Nuremberg planetarium from mid-September 2014 to the end of March 2015.