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...1890s, when Pablo Picasso was a pup, a Schleswig-German artist named Emil Nolde began experimenting. He distorted forms, rearranged figures, changed colors-innovations with which Picasso was later credited by the uninformed. Artist Nolde, father of German "Expressionism," lived through World War I, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich. When in 1937 the Nazis held a finger-pointing exhibit of "Degenerate Art" in Munich, Nolde was naturally included...
...Among Emil Nolde's fellow German "degenerates," Oskar Kokoschka escaped to London, Satirist George Grosz settled and calmed down in the U. S., Ernst Kirchner died of tuberculosis in exile. Karl Hofer, onetime Carnegie International prize winner is still in Germany, has been forbidden to paint. Artist Nolde, now 73, is still in Germany too. But he gets along very well. He is a Nazi Party member. Although he is officially banned, he paints what he likes, sells it while Nazis look the other way. Reason: Hermann Göring collects Nolde paintings...
Anti-Adlermann Sirs: With reference to Emil Adlermann's letter in [the Sept. 9] issue, p. 4, the "God Strafe England" paragraph stamps him as a Hun and true to type. May I ask him which God is to strafe England? The Christian God-the God of the universe-whom the Nazis have repudiated, or the mythical German gods which Hitler sometimes calls upon...
With best wishes for an unusually speedy Emil Adlermann blackout! God Girdle the Garlicky Germans...
...change in Iowa's fortunes took place eleven years ago when famed Psychologist Carl Emil Seashore, grand old man of the University, decided that Iowa should go in for creative arts. In came Humanist Norman Foerster to head the School of Letters, Artist Grant Wood to teach in the School of Fine Arts. They believed that the way to learn about art was to produce it. Soon Iowa's husky pupils were enthusiastically painting, sculpting, writing, acting, composing. Scornful of second-hand scholarship, Iowa's teachers let students win their degrees by substituting for a traditional thesis...