Word: franz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he offered Sir Joseph Duveen $250,000 for a picture, The Laughing Mandolin Player, by Franz Hals, 17th Century Dutch painter. The deal was closed. It was generally considered the most important art transaction since Henry E. Huntington of California bought from the same dealer Gainsborough's Blue Boy, or since John D. Rockefeller, Jr., bought for $1,100,000 the Verteuil tapestries (TIME, March...
...smile made Da Vinci famous: laughter on canvas has contributed to the artistic immortality of Franz Hals. The picture just added to Mr. Thompson's collection of old masters was formerly owned by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild of Waddesdon Manor. On a canvas, 4x5 feet, it shows a fair tousle-headed boy. He wears a cap; his dark coat is lined with blue; in his upraised right hand he holds a wine glass, and laughs...
...Geisenfeld, Bavaria, Franz Dietrich, "champion sausage eater of Ger-many," ate 14 one-pound sausages, drank 10 large glasses of beer in two hours...
...success, broke with his first wife, Minna, who had shared the bitter bread of his early obscurity and poverty, became enamored of the wife of his great friend and supporter, the renowned conductor Hans von Bülow. She was the daughter of the great pianist and composer Franz Liszt. A strange and rather fearsome complication ensued. Von Bülow magnanimously renounced his wife and their several children to his former friend. After an interval Richard and Cosima were married, and the fruit of their union was the present Siegfried. It was to commemorate the birth of this...
...Exploration in Maya Cities" was the subject of a lecture delivered in Pierce Hall last evening by Franz Blom, first year, graduate student in the Division of Anthropolgy and former inspector of archaeological monuments for the government of Mexico. Mr. Blom's lecture dealt with the recent discoveries which have been made in Yucatan and Central America, where many traces of ancient civilizations have been found. The lecture was illustrated by three reels of moving pictures, showing the ruins of the Maya cities of Chichen-itza, Uxmal, and Palenque. As an introduction Mr. Blom described the ancient inhabitants of these...