Word: brot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hunger, und kein Brot...
Occasionally Kaethe Kollwitz' technique of exaggerating significant details to grotesqueness for emphasis makes the work difficulty intelligible. At her best, as in the lithograph "Brot" she achieves striking beauty with remarkable simplicity and economy of line. Most powerful of the exhibits are the series of fascinating self-portraits, versions of "The Widow II," the conventional "Dance Around the Guillotine," and the symbolic "Hunger's Whip." Dr. Kuhn is to be congratulated for bringing such an exhibit to the Germanic Museum...
...Boston, New York or San Francisco on practically nothing. And every summer the visitors get hold of them, follow directions, and are greeted by howls of delight from the natives when they recount the joys of the three-cent forry ride, or the tasty messes at Silvios, the Svenska Brot or Chez Rose-Marie...
...with Emerson's "The American Scholar" among the greatest orations of its type); Carl Schurz, Charles William Eliot, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, Josiah Royce, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The names of the poets include Everett, Emerson, and Holmes; William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Brot Harte, Owen Wister, Barrett Wendell, Robert Frost, Bliss Carman, Alfred Noyes, and Stephen Vincent Benet...