Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vaso L. Chucovich, contributed heavily to the mayor's campaign, remained his warm friend, grew rich in Denver real estate and on his death in 1933 left $100,000 for a Robert W. Speer memorial. Denver's wrangles over the execution of this bequest have been periodic art news ever since...
Serb Chucovich's Serb trustees first awarded the commission to Yugoslavian Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, withdrew it when local patriots and Federal art officials protested that a U. S. sculptor should have the job. Obligingly the trustees fixed on Denver's own Maillol-trained Sculptor Arnold Ronnebeck. But when Ronne-beck's design of a female figure cradling a covered wagon in one arm came before the Municipal Art Commission it was speedily vetoed. An advisory committee of local artists and architects then held a national contest for designs, invited able Sculptor Maurice Sterne to help pick...
...Zorach and against Ronnebeck, the Municipal Art Commission stuck to its guns for a while in the face of clamor by the trustees, the committee and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton that Denver should have Ronnebeck or nothing. Leader of the Commission was fiftyish Anne Evans, weathered, spirited daughter of the first territorial governor of Colorado, patron of the summer theatre festival at Central City (TIME, July 26). Less exacting Commissioners began to waver when local ar- chitects declared that the Zorach memorial would not fit into Denver's $1,000,000 Civic Center. Then Mayor Stapleton dismissed...
...State art in Germany last Sunday received its clearest marching orders since the Nazis came to power in 1933. In Munich for the opening of a new House of German Art, 30,000 Nazis packed into the huge square on the Prinzregenten-Strasse to hear onetime Water-Colorist Adolf Hitler shout...
...Works of art that cannot be understood but need a swollen set of instructions to prove their right to exist and find their way to neurotics . . . will no longer find the road by which they can reach the German nation open. ... If they really paint in this manner because they see things that way, then these unhappy persons should be dealt with in the department of the Ministry of the Interior, where sterilization of the insane is dealt with...