• My husband and I visited colmar and the underlinden museum two years ago. The religious art there was a highlight of our trip to France. I’m excited to watch the video! Miss your programs on public tv. Watched religiously. Have sooooo many of your tapes toured europe with your books. Miss the shows.
• We were in Colmar for a day but were so excited to walk through the beautiful town and eat the wonderful food, that we didn’t make it to the museum! Unusual for us, and it’s a regret I’ve had. That means I just need to put Colmar back on the itinerary when we can travel again.
• Made a “pilgrimage” to see this masterpiece from my temporary base in the the southern part of the Black Forest. In Autumn. It all fit and made a lasting memory. Thanks for the reminder and relatable narrative. If you are fortunate you can hear a concert as part of an international music festival in Colmar…at least once the world starts getting back to normal.

I got to a little town of Riquewihr about 10 km from Colmar but couldn’t get a ride to see the Isenheim Altarpiece before the museum closed. Very disappointed as I have a copy of the Grunwald in my office. And the Great German composer Paul Hindemith was inspired by this altarpiece to compose an opera, Mathis der Maler (Mathias, the Painter) from which he later extracted a symphonic suite. Hindemith opposed the Nazi regime, came to America, and taught at Yale in his later years.