Word: durer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engravings of Albert Durer, the conflicting ideals of mediaeval and renaissance art can be seen to blend. In walking through the Durer exhibition now on view in the Germanic Museum, one feels that he is at the convergence of two ages...
...concerning culture of the Germanic countries. Among the treasures of the library is an illustrated first edition of Haus Sachs, entitled the "Wittenburg Nightingale." This is a Protestant poem which was published in 1523, written to be a veiled attack on Catholicism. There is also a volume of Albert Durer's writings which contains several of his famous wood-cuts...
Beginning today a collection of prints showing decorative art motives will be on exhibit in Gallery 15 of the Fogg Art Museum. Arranged to illustrate the development of decorative art over a period of centuries, the collection is made up of engravings and etchings from the works of Rembrandt, Durer, Clodion, Hogarth, Van Dyke, and many others...
...Fine Arts at that University, will give a lecture on "Principles of Iconographical Interpretation Illustrated by some Van Eyck Pictures," on Monday, at 5 o'clock in the Large Lecture Hall of the Fogg Museum. On Tuesday at the same time and place, he will give a talk on "Durer's Melancolia." Professor Panofsky is one of the outstanding critics and authorities of art in Europe, and is only recently arrived in this country...
...more unified against Germany than at any time since 1918, and preparing to do something about it. It was time for Hitlerism to pull its horns in once more, and that Hand- some Adolf proceeded to do with superlative skill. In medieval Nuremberg, home of Die Meistersinger and Albrecht Durer, scene of the first public Nazi review, yet another huge Nazi fiesta was under way. Bands blew their lungs out, flags fluttered from every housefront, tens of thousands of Nazis tramped their feet sore. Innsbruck's Franz Hofer was carried to the reviewing stand on a stretcher and fireworks...