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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drawings started yesterday at the Germanic Museum and will continue until the last of April. It contains a large collection of reproductions illustrating the development of German graphic arts from the middle of the 15th Century to the middle of the 16th, with special emphasis on the work of Durer and the two Holbeins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/31/1933 | See Source »

Commenting on the exhibit, C. L. Kuhn, curator of the Museum, remarked that he considered German drawings far more interesting than German paintings, because the Teutons have always been superbly skillful while working in black and white, but rather out of place when using colors. "Durer, for example," he said "was one of the greatest draughtsmen the world has over soon. These pictures show the development of his work from the late Gothie style that first influenced him to the early Renaissance type to which he turned in his later years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/31/1933 | See Source »

Among the earlier cuts are a few from the 16th century by Durer and Holbein. The work of Durer is represented by the "St. Michael" from the "Apocalypse" series and by two examples from the "Life of the Virgin" series. Holbein is represented by a series of cuts called "The Dance of Death." The Fogg Museum is the possessor of one of the six known complete sets of the proofs of this series. There is also an exhibition a first edition of Holbein's book, "Los Simulachres at Histories Faces do la Mort," which is lent to the museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 11/25/1932 | See Source »

...illustrated lecture, open to the public, will be given by Dr. Hans Tietze on the subject: "Two Theories on Albert Durer" at 4 o'clock today. The talk will be given in the upper lecture room of the Fogg Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tictze Talks on Durer | 3/29/1932 | See Source »

...director of the Staatliche Kunstbibliothek in Berlin, will give two lectures in German on Thursday and Friday afternoons, March 21 and April 1, at 4.30 o'clock in the Large Lecture room of Fogg Museum, "Grunewald and the Romanticism of the Old German Masters" will be the first topic, "Durer and Holbein" the second. The public is invited...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: German Lectures | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

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