Word: beharrlichkeit
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...show's most distinctive body of work was produced by the Leipzig School, a group of painters led by Bernhard Heisig, Werner Tübke and Mattheuer - artists who walked a tightrope between conformism and independence, and displayed visible links to past masters. Heisig's Beharrlichkeit des Vergessens (Persistence of Forgetting), which deals with German militarism, contains a section from an Otto Dix painting, creating a lineage that transcended art in the G.D.R. Wilfried Wiegand, cultural critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, wrote of the Leipzig School: "Even in the G.D.R. quality art, mature enough to be exhibited in museums...
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