Word: despiau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sculptors (some of them formerly listed by Hitler's Kulturkammer as "degenerate artists") were touring and lecturing in Germany as guests of the Third Reich. The guests: Painters Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, Cornelius van Dongen, Othon Friesz, Sculptors Paul Maximiliaen Landowski, Charles Despiau. Notably not there was the name of pre-war Paris' greatest painter, bulky Spanish-born Pablo Picasso, who presumably had had the guts to decline the invitation...
...best cross-sections they had ever seen (38 carefully chosen pieces) of the sculpture of democratic Europe. The period it represented was a short one. The earliest piece, a bronze by Auguste Rodin, was dated approximately 1876, the latest, a clutch of slim-limbed nudes by French-born Charles Despiau and German-born Gerhard Marcks, just antedated Hitler's conquest of Poland. Some of this sculpture-figures by Aristide Maillol and Ernst Barlach-was stockily reposeful, others-Lehm-brucks' bulb-domed, emaciated Head of a Thinker, Picasso's elongated Standing Girl -strained on their pedestals as uncomfortably...