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Bertolt Brecht in the throes of puppy love? Well, yes. Germany's polemical playwright had his silly side, according to Paula Banholzer, who had a son by Brecht 52 years ago when she was only seventeen. They had a beautiful time together, Paula reminisced to Germany's Der Spiegel. Once Brecht saw Paula at her second-story window and struck up a conversation; when his neck got stiff from looking up, he simply lay down in the street and continued chatting. As for Brecht's boast that being on a swing was as beautiful as making love...
...moving from Nuremberg to Venice, Dürer reversed a whole direction of cultural priorities. The centers to which German artists had previously looked, from their provincial isolation, were Bruges and Ghent in Flanders and the northern Gothic style shaped there by artists like the Van Eycks and Hugo van der Goes. What fascinated Dürer was Italian humanism and all that flowed from the discovery of classical antiquity. He felt that his destiny was to introduce these new ideas to the North. He had informed himself from scraps, mainly engravings after Mantegna and his imitators that he had seen...
TWENTY-SIX years after Adolf Hitler shot himself to death in his Berlin bunker, the face of the late, unlamented dictator has become an acute embarrassment to the Austrian government. Der Führer, whose likeness appeared on at least 15 different stamps in dozens of denominations, commissioned a special issue for his 54th birthday in 1943. The Austrian State Printing Office, a Nazi enterprise at that time, printed the stamps in Vienna. No one knows how many went into circulation. But when the Third Reich fell two years later, some 20 million remained, and they have been gathering dust...
...Hitler's mistress was a pudgy, middle-class blonde who gloomed more than she glittered. Yet her name will go down in history alongside such famous and glamorous kept women as Lola Montez, Madame de Pompadour, Nell Gwyn and the Du Barry. How did she manage to catch der Führer's eye and remain with him until their joint suicide in the Berlin Reich chancellery? Photographs from Eva Braun's personal album, published in the London Sunday Times magazine last week, give few new clues to her mysterious charms. The collection shows Eva riding...
...Johansen is still relentlessly curious and something of a loner, but his dissent has firmed. With a growing minority of other highly gifted American architects, Johansen is engaged in what amounts to the first rethinking of the architectural commandments handed down years ago by the late Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. His new approach has crystallized in one challenging building: the Mummers Theater in Oklahoma City...