Word: grossenvahn
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Prepared by your ad hoc lectures at the Grossenvahn, you can begin to explore treasures such as the Kunstmuseum, with its Blaue Reiter collection. After several days immersed in the corners, splotches, and brushstrokes of Klee, Kandinsky,Jawlensky, Kirchner, Macke, and Dali, venture upstairs to explore the world of Munich's artists...
...Munich, artists go to the Cafe Grossenvahn. So do the musicians, poets, actors, homosexuals, and foreigners. The regulars all know each other, and people wander from table to table greeting friends. Everyone discusses art-art and politics, art and money, art and friendship. Towering above the smoke and the wooden tables, a papier-mache man with chicken-wire hands stares at people as they walk in. The man wears black clothes and one gold carring. One of the waiters built...
...Grossenvahn-which means megalomania in English-is also full of harmless hangers-on, who argue for hours about the genius of some current exhibit, or the outrage of a brash new painter. But to learn anything about art at the Grossenvahn, you should be quiet and listen to the people of actual achievement who frequent the cafe. They will be your best teachers in Munich because there are no summer courses or supervised museum programs offered anywhere...
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