Word: albrecht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michel, Prince of Bavaria, scion of the Wittelsbachs and the Stuarts (a few British Jacobites still regard the Wittelsbach line as Britain's rightful sovereigns). He was taken by U.S. troops in a Bavarian hunting lodge. His father, former Crown Prince Rupprecht, Field Marshal in Kaiser Wilhelm's armies, was taken by the Allies in Italy...
...GUSTAV ALBRECHT Pomona College Claremont, Calif...
...world's most distinguished art historians last fortnight published the year's soundest, handsomest, most massive (eight and a half pounds) art book. The historian is 51-year-old German-born Erwin Panofsky, of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. The book is Albrecht Dürer (Princeton University Press; $20), a two-volume analytical study of Germany's great post-medieval engraver, painter, art theorist. It is the most useful and enlightening Dürer monograph yet to appear...
Historian Panofsky has studied Dürer ever since his German student days, has worked on this book for the last two years. The present Dürer volumes are addressed to art lovers rather than to art scholars. But Albrecht Dürer is not a "popular" book: it is a painstaking development of the intricately erudite lectures delivered by its author at Northwestern University...
...rnberg, the ancient walled town of Cobbler-Poet Hans Sachs and Painter Albrecht Durer, is ringed with war plants. Historic buildings, including Dürer's home (see cut), airplane factories, U-boat engine works, tank factories and railroad centers, crumbled under R.A.F. bombs...