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...Napoleon's occupation of Germany, Albert Speer's architecture, the mythic roots and Nazi uses of German romantic imagery -- dark woods, lonely travelers, ecstatic moral conversions in the face of nature -- and much more besides. Among Kiefer's spiritual heroes are Richard Wagner, Frederick II, Joseph Beuys, Painters Arnold Bocklin and Caspar David Friedrich and Novelist Robert Musil. Kiefer is not an artist of ordinary ambitions. But his ambitions are not bound up in the cult of celebrity that has riddled the art world in the '80s. He shuns publicity, permits virtually no photographs and spends most of his time...
Isle of the Dead (RKO Radio) is a shuddery set of improvisations suggested by the famed, funereal painting of Swiss Romanticist Arnold Bocklin. Quarantined on a tomb-haunted island off the Grecian coast, after one of them dies of the plague, is a strange crew, including a Greek general (Boris Karloff), a sinister peasant woman (Helene Thimig), a genteel Englishman (Alan Napier), his sickly wife (Katherine Emery), their full-blown servant girl (Ellen Drew). For a while, with deliberate restraint, the movie is content to trail red herrings, tune up its infernal machinery and suggest perhaps a few too many...
...Germanic Museum has received as a loan from Mrs. Hugo Muensterberg a copy, by herself, of Arnold Bocklin's "Der Eremit." Mrs. Muensterberg painted this copy last year from the original in the Konigliche National Galerie at Berlin. It is the exact size of the original...
Under the auspices of the Bostoner Deutsche Gesellschaft, Professor Heinrich Kraeger, of the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts at Dusseldorf, will deliver an illustrated lecture in German on "The Life Work of Arnold Bocklin," in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum tonight at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open to all members of the University...
...LECTURE. "The Life Work of Arnold Bocklin." (Illustrated by the Stereopticon. Professor Heinrich Kraeger, of Dusseldorf. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 8 P. M. Open to members of the University and of Radcliffe College...