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...York born Ralph Rosenborg, whose oils and watercolors accompany Kollwitz's graphic work at the Gropper, pursues art with precisely this aesthetic criterion in mind. A newcomer to the Cambridge scene, Rosenborg's work has never come closer than Provincetown despite some three hundred exhibitions both in this country and abroad. Displayed here, to the delightful if somewhat dubious accompaniment of a console offering Rossini's Barber of Seville at one moment and Brahms' Hungarian Rhapsodies the next, these unpretentious canvases gain much from understatement...
...Brattle building itself has a long history in the Commonwealth. It was originally a Lutheran church about a hundred years ago, and was rebuilt in 1890 by the Cambridge Social Union to provide "innocent amusements and means of social and intellectual improvements." The downstairs section--now the Gropper Art Galleries--had at one time been used as a police gymnasium. Several theatre groups have had their ups and downs in the building, of which probably the best-remembered was the late and occasionally lamented (except by the handful of Cambridge citizens who were badly "bitten" in frequent drives for money...
Gustave Wolf, whose paintings can be seen at the Gropper Gallery, worked in two styles: one, a religious, mystical manner reminiscent of Blake, and the other a rather academic approach. The designs and allegories a la Blake lack the English man's fluidity. They tend to be cramped and a little stiff, although decorative and full of imagination. The best pictures are the self-portraits in the second style. Others of these academic attempts do not escape the abyss of the artist's Germanicism. For example, the painting of the French town of Carcasonne looks like...
...currently showing a loan exhibition of German watercolors, drawings and prints from 1905 to 1955, sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany. This midcentury review provides an excellent background for two other important local showings, one of the work of Kathe Kollowitz that will open shortly at the Gropper Gallery, the other an exhibit of works by Lionel and Lux Feininger currently at the Cambridge Art Association Gallery. These artists, with whom we intend to deal in subsequent reviews, very conveniently represent two major aspects of Modern German Art. Kathe Kollowitz illustrates expressionism and its social awareness and Feininger combines...
...Gropper does not always use the lessons of his mentors with their subtlety or sureness, but he approaches being a whole artist more nearly than many of his contemporaries. Perhaps his friend Joe Jones summed his achievement up best when he wrote, "I don't know whether he is a great person or a great artist. What I do know, and I think needs to be known of anyone, is that his day by day examination of himself, society, and his work is approached with a single idea of understanding...