Word: augsburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guards discovered that the good Bishop was not in his study, nor in his bedroom, nor in his parlor, nor in his bathroom. In fact he was nowhere in his house. Slyly he had skipped through a back door and escaped the police cordon in a car bearing an Augsburg license plate. Squads of mounted police clattered up to St. Matthew's Church, but the Bishop was already inside and in his pulpit. Few paid attention to what he actually said. The purport of the sermon was clear enough, a protest against government interference in religion. One phrase stuck...
...breezy founder of the People's University was born in Christiansand, Norway 44 years ago, son of a steamship captain. At 16 Try. Narvesen migrated to the U. S., bustled through Minneapolis' Augsburg College, joined up with the Y. M. C. A. He learned that education can do without money at a War prison camp near Salt Lake City, which he turned into a makeshift "college" with smart internes as instructors. In Lansing he be longs to the Rotary Club, works hard for inter-class brotherhood, begins every day at 6:30 a. m. by hiking 40 minutes...
...remarkably fine example of the early illustrated book, a copy of "The Book of Troy" by Guido delle Colonne, printed at Augsburg with the type of Gunther Zainer, about 1478, has just been acquired by Harvard University. The only other recorded copy of the book is in the Dresden State Library...
...colors used are characteristic of the Augsburg work of the period, and are applied with much more care and skill than usual. The colors are laid in flat washes on some figures; on others there is an attempt to represent light and shade. Maidens and warriors alike have delicate pink complexions...
OUTSIDE of Germany, the replantation of Hans Burgkmair of Augsburg has been limited, for he lived at the height of the German Renaissance, and his work was contemporary with that of Duerer, Cranach, Gruenewald, and Altdorfer, men whose artistic merits have been perhaps disproportionately praised in comparison with such a genius as Burgkmair. Last year was the four hundredth anniversary of the artist's death and exhibitions of his works at Augsburg and Munich have increased the general interest in him and the appreciation of his significance for German art. Burgkmair was born in 1473, the son of an artist...