Word: dusseldorfers
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Wyman's artillery unit went to Europe inFebruary 1945 and took part in the Battle of theRuhr in Germany. Wyman was stationed in the townof Neuss, and helped to fire upon the industrialcity of Dusseldorf...
Ironically, Wyman was later assigned to work atthe U.S. Consulate in Dusseldorf, the very city hehad once attacked...
...first the German workmen thought they had found the remains of an extinct cave bear. Quarrying for limestone on a summer day in 1856, they had blasted open a small cave on the side of a gorge called Neanderthal (Neander Valley), near Dusseldorf, and were digging up the cave floor with pickaxes when they came upon the strange skull and sturdy bones. Setting the skeletal remains aside, they kept digging, never dreaming that their discovery would soon spark confusion, dismay and heated debate that has continued to this...
...leaning to the personal, the bodily and the autobiographical would have come out in her art anyway -- she began as a painter of Expressionist heads, vaguely along the lines of Munch's The Scream -- but it was certainly helped by a year's visit to the German city of Dusseldorf in 1964-65. There Hesse came to know the work of Joseph Beuys and the post-Dada Fluxus group. From that point on -- accelerated by her admiration for artists like Dubuffet and Claes Oldenburg -- she grew more and more interested in whatever did not pertain to sculpture as commonly understood...
...Kassar's hesitancy was understandable. He wouldn't want anything to disrupt his profitable CIA-assisted drug and arms business. Presumably he was also worried because West German police had just raided the Popular Front hideouts around Dusseldorf and Frankfurt. Among those arrested: the Jordanian technical wizard and bombmaker Marwan Khreesat...