Word: altstadt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elliptical Shadows. To Dealer Alfred Schmela, Beuys's appointment to the academy in 1961 was the starting signal for avant-garde forces to coalesce in Dusseldorf. Other observers give much credit to Schmela, who opened his gallery in 1957 in the picturesque Altstadt quarter and introduced the city to most of its comers, from Group Zero to Surrealist Konrad Klapheck, a bespectacled young man who paints typewriters, telephones, boots, bicycle bells and shower heads as though they had eyes, ears and affections of their...
What saddens some Germans even more than the traffic is the news that more than 200 of the ancient dwellings in Heidelberg's Altstadt-the "Old Town" where generations of Heidelberg students loved to stroll-are near collapse from neglect and fungus rot. Loath to destroy the Altstadt (and along with it a lucrative tourist trade), Heidelbergers are equally reluctant to try to raise the $50 million needed to restore the buildings...
...visitor is confronted by a half-mile panorama of weeds and rubble, a skyline of twisted girders and the rusting frames of church spires. As a transportation nexus, Dresden was the most heavily damaged city in Germany in World War II. The center of the city, the historic Altstadt, was all but leveled by Allied bombers. The Communists have made little effort to rebuild it after 15 years...
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