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...rnberg, the ancient walled town of Cobbler-Poet Hans Sachs and Painter Albrecht Durer, is ringed with war plants. Historic buildings, including Dürer's home (see cut), airplane factories, U-boat engine works, tank factories and railroad centers, crumbled under R.A.F. bombs...
German F, by contrast, leans over backward to avoid touching on present-day Germany. It sticks closely to the cultural and political history of Germany in the "good old days" of the minnesingers, Albrecht Durer, Frederick the Great, and perhaps Bismarck. (The German Club does the same thing, of course...
Genuine paintings from the thirteenth through the nineteenth centuries are shown side by side with their respective counterfeits. Examples include pieces by Bellini, Raphael, Constable, Corot, Guardi, Ingres, and Durer. Egyptian, Greek, and Italian Renaissance sculpture, together with Chinese and Aztec figures in stone, complete the main body of the exhibit. Forgetting the line of demarcation which can be drawn between the false art and the true, it can be said that many of the examples shown are products of great craftsmanship and skill. The counterfeit Raphael as well as the Constable indicates that the forger can often be placed...
Among the great artists whose works are shown both in the original and in counterfeit are Albrecht Durer, Corot, Ingres, Guardi, Bellini, and Constable. Also exhibited are originals and forgeries of Chinese bronze vessels and various Chinese jade objects, Persian miniatures, Egyptian sculptured heads, and early Greek terracotta figuriries...
...Durer's print, "The Trinity," we can see a combination of two divergent points of view which are probably the results of this Gothic-Renaissance mixture dominating the cultural atmosphere within which Durer lived. There is a strange blend of the real and the symbolic in this particular picture. The figure of the agonized Christ, with hands and feet still showing the marks of crucifixion, is done in a forceful, brutal way, yet the entire group of figures, of which Christ is the foremost, is depicted by the artist as floating in the heavens upon a small field of clouds...