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Until almost the peak of the Italian Renaissance, German painters remained absorbed in refining their own massive, strong-lined Gothic style. The first great German artist to cross the Italian Alps was Albrecht Dürer, who returned with his eyes aglow. Back home in Niirnberg, young Dürer began turning out drawings and prints that combined the high skills of medieval German craftsmanship with the new techniques and ideas he had discovered in Venice. The result was the opening of the Northern Renaissance. Dürer's prints and drawings became sought-after collectors' items...
HERBERT O. ALBRECHT...
Young & Silly. They also fell in with a 24-year-old petty criminal named Albrecht Sticht, who persuaded them to rob a service station. But a night watchman foiled the gang and grabbed one of the boys as they tried to get away. In a fiery rage. Werner decided to kill Sticht. "It's hard to say exactly why," mused Hugo last week. "We were young and silly then. Sticht had joined our gang later and we didn't trust him." At Werner's orders, Sticht was lured to a lonely house and shot in the back...
...HERBERT ALBRECHT Springfield...
They could all find something worth looking at: there were seven special exhibits going at once. On the ground floor were a folk costume show and a comprehensive display of "The Weird"-no etchings, drawings and lithographs from the gruesome isth century genii of Albrecht Diirer to the willowy 20th century witches of Charles Addams ("May I borrow a cup of cyanide?"). Upstairs were other shows: the Metropolitan's 30 famed Rembrandts, a collection of miniature objects, earliest American landscapes, contemporary American watercolors, drawings and prints...