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...flamboyant," late medieval style, is illustrated in the engravings of a Crozier and Madonna and Child, by the master from Colmar, Schongauer. All the capacity of engraving for detail and subtlety is put to use. In these works the artist characteristically stresses linear qualities and tactile values, concentrating on bringing out textures while limiting the plastically felt surfaces. Along with the engravings of Schongauer are woodcuts, some of which are from the Wolgemut school. The art of letter printing which was developed in Germany during the middle of the 15th century had been used for some time in the making...
Neither side should haye been surprised by Potter's statement. In World War II Potter rose from private to major, was wounded three times. In the Colmar pocket, both of his legs were blown off by, an enemy land mine. With that record behind him, Potter could reasonably find it difficult to sympathize either with faltering Army leadership or with efforts to make two peacetime years of Army life bearable for high-living Private Gerard David Schine...
Pillar of Strength. When she was only eight, in the Alsatian village of Colmar, the same region where Dr. Schweitzer himself grew up, Emma Haussknecht dreamed about going to Africa some...
...does about any other first-rank master. Only a handful of paintings and a bare 33 drawings have come to light in four centuries, but these are enough to make his fame. His greatest work, a tremendous altarpiece of nine paintings which now stands in the museum at Colmar, Alsace, contains a magnificent painting of the Crucifixion. A mystic with a realist's sense of physical suffering, Griinewald made the Crucifixion an epic of wounds and pain seldom, if ever, matched on canvas...
Once, during the battle of the Colmar pocket, De Lattre's superior, U.S. General Jacob Devers, put the XXI U.S. Army Corps under his command (other U.S. officers were outraged by this move). Throughout the fighting, Devers kept up a stream of suggestions to De Lattre via field telephone. Finally De Lattre exploded: "If you want me to run this battle, leave me alone. If you want to run it, come here and take over." Devers, who respects De Lattre as a first-rate soldier, smiled: "I was wondering how soon he would say that...