Fraktur — Pennsylvania Dutch for “to write fancily” — has its roots in the artwork used on medieval manuscripts, LeCount said. Though other cultures had manuscripts with elaborate ...

“Fraktur is the Pennsylvania Dutch people’s most important contribution to American art,” said Yoder of Devon, Chester County, a retired professor of folklife studies and American ...

As a sideline, he made Pennsylvania Dutch fraktur, a type of folk art. On occasion, as an apparent reward for scholarship or behavior, he made drawings for his students.

I bid on a colorful, rare, early American decorated PA Dutch folk art baptism fraktur, but was upset that it went so overwhelmingly high, I could not afford it!

NEW YORK, May 5 (UPI) -- A rare chance to see one of the finest collections of Fraktur art practiced by Pennsylvania Germans, commonly called Pennsylvania Dutch, in the 18th and 19th centuries is ...

In trying to understand the American folk art of our 17th and 18th century Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants to the New World, one must understand the premise of how much of a religious backlash these … ...

LNP intern Kellen Stepler takes part in a Fraktur class taught by Emily Smucker-Beidler at the PA Guild of Craftsmen 335 N. Queen St. in Lancaster city Saturday, June 26, 2021.

Now, much of Yoder’s art is Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, with hex signs and fraktur being some of her specialties. Yoder’s path to her current art career certainly wasn’t linear, but each ...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art calls it “the most comprehensive exhibition to be devoted to fraktur in over 50 years.” Originating in the German-speaking areas of Europe in the 1500s, t… ...

Winterthur's last comprehensive exhibit focusing on Pennsylvania Dutch art was more than 30 years ago. "There's been a lot of new discoveries and a lot of new research since then," Minardi says.

The Easter Bunny, as we know it, might have originated in Schuylkill County. Johann Conrad Gilbert (1734-1812), is credited with drawing one of the first depictions of an Easter rabbit when he live… ...