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...introducing her to such greats as Arp, Kandinsky and Jean Cocteau, while Peggy made good her resolve "to buy a painting a day." Dynamite Chronicle. Their advice proved good. When Peggy fled from Vichy France in 1941 for New York, she went encumbered with her future husband, Surrealist Max Ernst, her ex-husband, Laurence Vail, and art that had cost her only $40,000. The collection that adorns her Venice palazzo now is insured for $5,250,000. She had snatched up incendiary works from nearly all the key art movements since 1910-at a song. Now, for the first...
EMILE NOLDE and ERNST KIRCHNER-Auslander, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th. For anyone who missed the Museum of Modern Art's Nolde retrospective last year, this small sampling (some 20 works) offers another look at his brooding landscapes and blazing watercolors. A fellow German expressionist, Ernst Kirchner, is seen in six works. Through...
...Being an ex-G.I. who served 19 months in Korea, I had to undergo an interrogation from my wife after she read your hooch story. The Rev. Ernst W. Karsten's charge is an exaggeration...
...roomed with Anuszkiewicz while studying under Albers at Yale, try not to imitate nature. "I use visual activities," says Stanczak, "to run parallel to it" (right). There is even a U.S. group, impersonally called Anonima. Composed of three young men, Francis Hewitt (below), Edwin Mieczkowski (next page) and Ernst Benkert, who met at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and Oberlin College in 1958 and '59, they believe that the rule and the compass are proper artist's tools. Like other op artists, they dislike artistic preciousness, the expression of the prima donna personality on canvas, and psychic plumbing...
...under fire. In a letter distributed to 12,000 Lutheran pastors throughout the U.S., the director of an American service center in Seoul denounced "the age-old dangers of women and liquor" and concluded that "our young men aren't spiritually and morally ready for Korea." The Rev. Ernst W. Karsten, a mild-mannered Iowan of 59, charged that about 90% of the G.I.s in Korea consort with prostitutes regularly. "Many men have their steadies," Karsten reported. "Some of them 'own' their girls, complete with hooch and furniture. Before leaving Korea they sell the package...