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...months from now, it seems likely that Franz Ferdinand, the Glasgow-based rock band that's hotter this second than a Paris Hilton download, will travel from gig to gig via a record company's limousine. But for now, the quartet seems content to carry their own guitars on the London Underground. On a January afternoon, they boarded in north London, stumbling through the barriers with kit and overnight bags like well-equipped buskers. A few stops down the line and Franz Ferdinand - no relation to the assassinated Archduke - emerges on a rainy Charing Cross Road in the city center...
...museum’s walls hangs Franz von Stuck’s Wounded Amazon, a painting of a fictional battle between Amazons and centaurs. Scholars have speculated that the injured Amazon in the center of the painting, which von Stuck had previously used to symbolize the ‘new’ art he was creating, represents the opposition faced by modern art at the turn of the 20th century...
...only artist to be exhibited in three different media is Franz von Stuck, whose noteworthy contributions in printmaking and painting methods are supplemented with the exhibit’s only sculpture. Titled Amazon, its smooth, dark silhouette outlines a muscular woman atop a wide-eyed horse’s back, her left hand gripping the horse’s mane while her other hand is positioned to fling a pointy spear. The moment is one of everlasting tension, freezing the Amazon’s attack at the brink of its culmination...
...what makes this alarming - is that the government is writing checks." If the government isn't talking, Osen and his client Barbara Principe are. She's a 70-year-old mother of seven children who grew up on a chicken farm in New Jersey, barely aware that her grandfather Franz Wertheim was co-owner of a German retail legend. In 1951 a German lawyer named Arthur Lindgens, a distant relative by marriage of the Wertheim family, bought out Principe's father's and uncle's share for the equivalent of about $5,100 at the time. That enabled Lindgens...
...things they used to do was imitate Hans and Franz from SNL. They would do those voices to announce...school events and sometimes they’d dress up at assemblies,” she says...