Word: duisburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Determined to paddle his own canoe in the West, Vladas Cesiunas, 39, slipped away from a Soviet sports team at Frankfurt airport in August, while en route to the World Canoe Championships in Duisburg. A gold medal winner in the 1972 Olympics, the Soviet canoeing star was quickly granted political asylum in West Germany, and thus became the first of the well-known Soviet sport and dance personalities who have defected to the West in the past two months, a group that includes Bolshoi Ballet Star Alexander Godunov and Skaters Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova...
...employees have been traumatic Over the past two years, breweries have been closing at a rate of one a week, and forecasts are that eventually only 800 will remain open. Content in the past to let their beer sell itself, some German brewers have now begun to advertise. Duisburg-based König-Brauerei, for example, has a campaign that uses such luminaries as Actress Maria Schell and Moneyman Hermann Abs, former board chairman of the Deutsche Bank, who are, the ads note, "loyal to the king...
Fortunately, Lehmbruck's truncated output survived the Third Reich -though Hitler considered it, along with most expressionist art, degenerate -and in 1964 a special Lehmbruck museum opened in his native city, Duisburg. But though revered in Germany, Lehmbruck is not well known in America. To rectify this, the National Gallery in Washington has organized a Lehmbruck retrospective, which will run until Aug. 13, thus giving Americans a chance to assess the wistful and curiously poignant work of this haunted...
...never written a public statement about art. His work is hard to find; museums until now have given it only the sketchiest support. Nowhere in New York can one find a large sculpture by Di Suvero on public view. But next spring, Holland's Stedelijk Museum and the Duisburg Museum in Germany will jointly sponsor a show of four or five of his enormous steel constructions. The Whitney Museum plans an overdue retrospective for the fall...