Word: brauer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Extra Ear. Of all the grotesque artists at work today, perhaps the ones with the soundest and most logical reasons for being angry at the world are Vienna's five "Fantastic Realists": Rudolf Hausner, Erich Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Mutter, Anton Lehmden. All underwent the real enough traumas of World War II. By what may or may not be coincidence, their admirably precise diableries are also gentler, more conventional, more philosophical, more ethereal than their American counterparts'. Though all are firmly established in their native Vienna, none had made much of a splash elsewhere until London...
...sometime poet who plays a mean folk guitar in his spare time, Brauer, 40, considers his paintings essentially literary. As often as not, they depict bizarre updatings of Biblical themes: Jacob in the khaki of a kibbutznik, Noah's ark floating through the air like...
Looking Back, Brauer explains, deals "again with the problem of digesting the past. The red shape is a gas chamber, but in order to live with it, I paint it beautiful. The green man looks back at it indirectly, through a mirror. The little monsters are like the people who seemed to me monsters when I walked the streets of Vienna as a boy during the war." On the other hand, the green man has holes in his shoes simply because "it makes the feet more interesting." The folds of his trousers swirl into an extra ear. "Why not have...
...easy enough to argue that Christians have a God-given duty to work for racial equality, or for the eradication of hunger and disease in the world. The strategies to be followed in achieving these goals do not so easily acquire universal assent. For that reason, Dean Jerald Brauer of the University of Chicago Divinity School argues that churches should not necessarily be engaged in trying to hand down specific solutions to social and political problems from the pulpit. Christian creativity in trying to solve these questions, he says, "won't be a case of the churches poking their...