Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Muller, 34, German-born painter who came to the U.S. in 1941, is another Hans Hofmann pupil who still sticks by his abstract teacher's general principles but feels, "Abstract art is too esoteric. The image gives one a wider sense of communication." Now hitting his stride. Muller appears in all three museum shows. His Of This Time, Of That Place (opposite) at the Whitney is a large-scale (4 ft. by 8 ft.) canvas with looming white nudes set against a luxuriant patchwork landscape that draws its theme from Goethe's Erlk...
...arrived in Austria with nothing except "a little vocabulary" of amorous German words which he had picked up in the arms of an innkeeper's wife at the border. Da Ponte boldly demanded the post of Poet to the Theaters. Asked by the Emperor how many plays he had written, Da Ponte for once gave an honest reply: "None, Sire." The Emperor was impressed. "Good, good! Then we shall have a virgin muse," he said...
...horror, despair, chaos and grief is bemoaned vehemently and emotionally at Busch-Reisinger's "War and Aftermath: German art in relation to the First World War." The Teutonic emotionalism of these artists' immediate reactions to terror makes the exhibition an important psychological document. The reactions themselves make it an historical record. Its value as art is a question apart...
Paul L. Scher: Dunster; Class Rep. to Stud. Council, and Sec.; Wireless Club; HYDC; Dir., German Exchange Student Program...
Saul Z. Finn: Eliot; UN Council; Hillel Stud. Council; House Soc. Affairs Comm.; House swim team; German Club; PBH; HYDC; HLU; HSMR...