Word: albrecht
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently London Art Dealer David Carritt, 30, flipping idly through the Bacon Collection catalogue, was struck by a curious resemblance. The lion in the back of the painting was similar to one drawn by Germany's famed Gothic draftsman Albrecht Dürer. Invited down to tea to examine the painting at first hand, Art Dealer Carritt was certain. Other experts were called in, agreed. The painting, which proved to be in almost perfect condition, was estimated to be worth $560,000. Asked if he intended to sell, Sir Edmund, possessor not only...
...cast for leading Communist candidates showed how the Poles were thinking. In Warsaw's First District, for example, the highest vote (98.63%) was received by Professor Jerzy Bukowski, who had helped students organize a militia during the October crisis, while the lowest vote went to Central Committee Secretary Jerzy Albrecht, a Stalinist. On these terms, Party Secretary Gomulka has a mandate to make a clean sweep of Stalin ism and Stalinists. They had battled him during the campaign with clandestine leaflets, smears, whispers, and every other trick in the agitator's manual. They had pictured a pygmy Gomulka beside...
...color portfolio of portraits of Christ, vividly demonstrating how men have altered Christ's image to accord with the temper of their times and of themselves. The portraits range from the sad ascetic of the earliest 2nd century drawings through the agonized Renaissance Christ of Flemish Painter Albrecht Bouts to the smiling companion of Contemporary Ohio Painter Ivan Pusecker...
...shall shiver for the sun," Albrecht Durer wrote to a friend during h is stay in Italy, "here I am lord, at home a parasite." The world of Nuremberg to which he returned with reticence is revealed in a series of woodcuts and engravings from the 15th and 16th centuries. Germany was barely touched by the Renaissance sun that burned in the south. In contrast to the freedom of the Italian artists, the Germans were still rigidly bound by the guild system. More important, they continued to develop the Northern, Medieval traditions, sloof to the revolution that had taken place...
...from this background, represented by Wolgemut in the woodcut and Schongauer in engraving, that the great transition figure of Albrecht Durer emerged. But the beauty of this exhibit is the opportunity to see the Germanic elements in his art, as well as his foreign innovations. It is clearly brought out, that Durer was both the culmination of the medieval tradition as well as the herald of a new interest in classical forms. The ideals of plasticity proportionality, perspective and clarity that were absorbed from the south combined in Durer with a linear style and interest in detail...