Word: ganz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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champion, the kibitzers are moved to uncommon awe. Bobby, they declare, is ganz meshuga, which is to say that he is quite addled. Though he celebrated his 15th birthday only last week, he already shows all the marks of the great grand masters of one of the oldest, most intricate games known...
...intense, self-taught artist whose chief love is Byzantine and Romanesque art. In his stained glass he tries to mirror the restrained magnificence of his anonymous idols. Restricting himself to 20 hues of glass-chosen from 15,000 commercially available-he assembles his windows with an artisan named Karl Ganz, then paints them in grisaille (i.e., grey glaze). The whole job (composing, assembling, painting, firing, leading) takes up to three years, and only when the glass is finally installed can the artist see his work as a living entity, vibrating with the light...
...HARRY GANZ Detroit, Mich...
...Ganz...