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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...positive. She was Helen Krouch, 29, a New Jersey office worker who had seemed in perfect health when she told her parents: "If I could save someone's life with my heart, I would do it. If I knew I were going to die, I'd like to die that way." Instead, she collapsed in a parking lot from the pressure of a tumor upon her brain stem and lapsed into a fatal coma. But her father remembered, and her doctor called Maimonides, where she died...
...between 1498 and 1504 portraying the lives of Christ and Mary for her private chapel. All but two were probably by Juan de Flandes, a Fleming whose sophisticated fusion of courtliness and naiveté, and languid, doll-like figures were much prized in the Northern European Renaissance. Painter Albrecht Dürer, when he saw the panels in 1521, exclaimed: "I have never seen the like for precision and excellence...
Washington's National Gallery of Art now offers a double opportunity to see what Dürer was talking about. To a Sithium panel, acquired in 1964, depicting The Assumption of the Virgin, the gallery has now added a companion piece from Isabella's chapel, a Juan de Flandes panel illustrating The Temptation of Christ, bought at auction last June in London for $161,700. Beside the overly saccharine Sithium, the 8-in. by 6-in. miniature by De Flandes is indeed a gem of sprightly precision...
...opening reception at Düsseldorf's glossy new Kunsthalle was mobbed by Ruhr Valley heiresses, bearded intellectuals, and art dealers from all over Europe. In the crush, nearly everyone failed to recognize the artist, Günter Haese, 43, a slender, shy man with an assembly-line haircut and an inexpensive suit. No one, however, could ignore the 27 works on display. Built of watch springs, mesh, tiny cogs and spirals, the small, precisely balanced wire constructions fluttered and danced at the slightest breath. Bearing cryptic names, such as Hermit, Flirt...
Haese's rise to fame is all the more surprising because he so sedulously refuses to court it. The son of a Kiel mechanical engineer, he moved to Düsseldorf to study at its prestigious art school. While there, he immersed himself in Zen Buddhism, discovered his modus operandi during a meditation in 1960 when his watch shattered into pieces. Today he, his wife, his nine-year-old son and their uncaged parakeet live in a Düsseldorf public housing project. Haese insists on keeping the apartment so clean that the entire family removes its shoes before...