Word: crucifixion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Greta Zwenge grows up her father's child. For her, quality. She admires, loves, the dignified young composer, Karl Bleicher, who has brought here the Crucifixion theme of his forefathers, yet incomplete. He loves her, with the old reserve...
...Albany she learns her mistake. Brutality. Karl would have wept at her body. The thought fastens upon her until she is able to believe it is Karl with whom she lies, by whom she conceives. Meantime Karl thinks he has learned his mistake. Drinking heavily, he prostitutes his Crucifixion theme, twisting its sonorous measures into hip-hitching, gold-getting jazz tunes, publishes anonymously...
...latter year, his picture Nude Girl with a Shawl, provoked a long and animated controversy between artists and moralists when it was exhibited at the National Arts Club. Last season, his contribution to the New Society of Artists' Manhattan Exhibition-a rude, graphic painting of the Crucifixion-attracted great attention, as did the recent picture he sent to that gallery-Two Women (TIME, Jan. 12). His paintings are hung in many famed galleries, museums, in the U. S. and Europe. Many are the honors, medals, that have been conferred upon...
...Born of Jewish parents in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), he claimed direct descent from King David, sweet singer of Israel. This regal lineage bred in him a scorn of Kings. The Tsar of all the Russias made him court painter. One day he painted a picture of the Crucifixion-Holy Mary, in peasant costume, her face twisted with anguish, weeping over the naked body of her peasant son. The authorities condemned the painting. Should peasants mourn their woes where privilege looked on? They displayed it in public with brands of white chalk smeared over its surface. Furious, Painter Bakst renounced...
That Jesus action in overturning the tables of the Jewish money lenders in the Temple of Jerusalem was the chief cause for his crucifixion, was among the assertions made yesterday afternoon by Professor Kirsopp Lake before a crowd which filled Peabody Hall in Phillips Brooks House...