Word: bavarians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ernst Buchner, 70, longtime director of the Bavarian State Painting Collections who. in anticipation of World War II, removed one of the world's finest art collections from Munich's Alte Pinakothek, safely hid the more than 1,000 masterpieces in salt mines, and after the war campaigned to rebuild the bombed-out gallery where in 1957 the collection again went on view; of a heart attack; in Munich...
...Finance Minister halted chaotic post-World War I inflation and as Chancellor (1925-26) put Germany's signature on the futile peace-seeking Locarno Pact, who agreed in 1933 to serve the Nazis as Ambassador to the U.S., was recalled in 1937 and lived quietly on his Bavarian farm until the Nazis finally fell; in DÜsseldorf...
Died. Anton Otto Fischer, 80, preeminent U.S. illustrator of sea stories (including the Saturday Evening Post's Tugboat Annie and Colin Glencannon series), a droll, Bavarian-born artist who acquired his blue water palette during eight youthful years on windjammers; of a heart attack; in Woodstock...
Last week, in a glass-covered court and adjoining gallery of the Bavarian State Graphic Collection, originally designed by Adolf Hitler himself as an annex to the Nazi Brown House, one of the most com prehensive lithograph exhibitions ever assembled opened in Munich. There were Munchs and Noldes. Daumiers and Lautrecs, Chagalls and Picassos. But the real star of the show was one of Munich's own sons. His works are a bit clumsy, and he was not really much of an artist. Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, born in 1771, was lithography's inventor...
...white Fiat. At his big January ball, Weigt announced last week, a $25,000 hunk of Italian Riviera will be given as a prize. Less successful was his plan to solve the servant problem by auctioning off a maid; it was abandoned after critical comment from a Bavarian radio commentator. Shrugs Weigt: "Servant problems are all the wives ever talk about in this place. All the men talk about is how to get out for an evening without their wives." To promote togetherness and the illusion of belonging to a fast international set, Ringmaster Weigt also organizes hunting and opera...