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...Cranach and Aitdorfer, Professor Kuhn, Germanic Museum...
OUTSIDE of Germany, the replantation of Hans Burgkmair of Augsburg has been limited, for he lived at the height of the German Renaissance, and his work was contemporary with that of Duerer, Cranach, Gruenewald, and Altdorfer, men whose artistic merits have been perhaps disproportionately praised in comparison with such a genius as Burgkmair. Last year was the four hundredth anniversary of the artist's death and exhibitions of his works at Augsburg and Munich have increased the general interest in him and the appreciation of his significance for German art. Burgkmair was born in 1473, the son of an artist...
...through beautifully paneled rooms, expressing his presidential approval of cabinets of Sevres and Meissen ("Dresden") porcelain, jeweled watches, Battersea enamel, signed furniture from the great French ebenistes, a priceless series of tapestries from cartoons by Boucher, and the gem of the collection, "The Burgomaster's Daughter" by Lucas Cranach. Impulsively, M. le President rushed forward and wrung the hand of the spry little old gentleman who had given all this to France. "Monsieur Tuck," said M. Doumergue, "this visit has been a real joy to me. Your latest munificence will perpetuate your name in the memory of a grateful...
...Louisine Waldron Elder mar ried Henry Osborne Havemeyer (Ameri can Sugar Refining Co.) and started to collect pictures in earnest. A few years later, she could walk into her private museum, gaze upon Veronese, del Sarto, Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, de Hoogh, Hals, Rubens, Cranach, El Greco, Goya, Millet, Monet, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Re noir, Pissarro, Corot, Poussin, Ingres, Cezanne, Mary Cassatt and Degas. If the mood was not for pictures, there were sundry other objets d'art - marbles by Donatello, Cyprian glass, Italian faience, Japanese lacquers, Hispano-Moresque plaques, and a collection of weird Degas excursions into clay...
Among the prints in the exhibit there will be several examples of excellent impressions of work by Cranach, Hans Baldung, Grun, and the "Little Masters." Holbein is also represented in the exhibition. Among the prints by him there will be some very fine proofs from the Dance of Death some excellent borders, and several Old Testament cuts...