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Died. Dr. Leo Frobenius, 65, explorer, ethnologist, anthropologist; at Intra, Lake Maggiore, Italy. In 1912, Frobenius opened up the richest continental deposit of cave paintings and engravings on the first of his twelve African expeditions, subsequently became recognized as a top-rank authority on prehistory. Selections from the mammoth Frobenius collection at Frankfurt-am-Main were last year giving a whopping exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (TIME...
...past a great collection of full-scale water color and photographic reproductions which filled three floors, was the sheer bulk of artistic material retrieved from the depths of the human past. Yet the Museum's exhibition was only a fractional facsimile of the 3,500 items in the Frobenius Collection at the Institute for the Study of the Morphology of Civilization, Frankfurtam-Main, Germany...
...Frobenius collection is one more example of the productive possibilities of the single-track mind. In 1886, when Leo Frobenius was a small Berliner of 13, he had made up his mind he was going to be an anthropologist. At 15 he had become such an expert on the American Indian that he amused himself compiling technical errors in the Leather Stocking Tales. He wrote a dissertation on the ethnographic significance of Marco Polo's travels. Before he was 20 he had had to work as a farmer and clerk, but by the time he came...
...contemporary culture that discussion of prehistoric art remains discovered in Belgium and France, with their implication that a respectable culture had flourished in glacial times, was subtly but systematically suppressed. It was then held that Stone Age culture died when the ice receded northward for the last time. Leo Frobenius did not believe "anything so essentially alive could vanish so completely." He coaxed, cajoled and corn-pelled his elders to back his theory that Stone Age men had taken their chisels and paint brushes down into Africa after the last glacial period, and on his first expedition to North Africa...
Herr Doktor Frobenius, a lively, goateed little scholar currently lecturing in the U. S., is not surprised when people are slow to grasp the symbolic complexities of his great collection of "dawn art." "We modern Europeans," says he, "concentrating on the newspaper and on that which happens from one day to the next, have lost the ability to think in large dimensions. We need a change of Lebensgefiihl, of our feeling for life. And it is my hope that the enormous perspective of human growth and existence which has been opened to us by these pictures and by the researches...