Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years James Ensor, who never set foot out of Belgium, remained an English citizen. In 1930 Belgium's King Albert created Ensor a baron for his contribution to Belgium's esthetic reputation. Ensor became a Belgian. A street was named after him in his native Ostend. A tablet was placed on the wall of his house saying that he lived there. A statue of him was erected in Ostend's Casino Gardens. He unveiled it himself...
When James Ensor was 19 he painted portraits from a palette like that of America's Albert Pinkham Ryder (then 32), two years later bourgeois interiors in the expressionistic manner of Jean Edouard Vuillard (then 14). At 29 Ensor painted a horse careening across a sky a la Marc Chagall (then 2). Fifty-four years ago Ensor scandalized even the most audacious art lovers with his Entry of Christ into Brussels. This canvas showed a vast crowd of leering men & women, one a skeleton, others with masks, around a hardly noticeable Christ, abject upon a mule...
...such English institutions as pubs, the Derby and the Eton & Harrow cricket match that he stayed on, published a book of satirical drawings appreciatively lampooning Britain's pomps and humors. With the enthusiastic support of famed British Painter Augustus Edwin John, London's ultra-conservative Victoria & Albert Museum purchased three Topolski drawings. Only one member of the Museum's committee objected-on the ground that they were the work of a too young foreigner. The committeeman said: "We must draw the line somewhere." Cracked Augustus John: "But can you draw the line like Topolski...
...most original and important creative minds in the field of science America has produced" (Albert Einstein...
...that by September 1942, state insurance paid to firms closed by war had reached 44 million Reichsmarks-more than double the amount paid out in 1941. A recent issue of the Essener National Zeitung (Göring's paper) announced, as evidence of the success of Industrial Dictator Albert Speer's rationalization program, that in the past six months the number of firms producing special artillery shells was reduced from 54 to 4; those manufacturing certain war-vehicle parts from 402 to 173; those making rifle bullets...