Word: heckel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sally Heckel's face blesses the film. Seen straight on in full light she looks somewhat empty and naive, but subtle changes in light and camera angle put emotion on that sympathetic face. In the film's best scene she watches television with a bottle of dead coke and her little half-smile...
Kuhn assembled what some Germanic art authorities have called "the finest collection of twentiethcentury German art in the world," Coolidge said. Kuhn was an opportunist: When Hitler banned "immoral" works by Kirschner and Heckel, Kuhn obtained them when they appeared on the New York market...
...Empire Building." In Newark, N.J., Democratic Mayor Hugh Addonizio has been locked in struggle with the United Community Corporation, the agency that took control of the city's anti-poverty program. When Addonizio warned the U.C.C. against "empire building," its president, Rutgers Law Dean C. Willard Heckel, vowed that the agency "would alter the power structure of the city." Many politicians fear that is no idle boast. In Los Angeles, it took the Watts riots to persuade Democratic Mayor Samuel Yorty to accept even seven representatives of "disadvantaged" areas on his 35-member poverty board...
Still at Work. When the Bridge broke up, the original artists developed their own strong individual styles, but all were lumped together as "decadents" by the Nazis. Heckel may have suffered the most: more than 700 of his pictures were yanked from museums, many of them to be burned or hacked to pieces, and when an Allied bomb destroyed his house, it destroyed a large part of what remained of his life's work...
...these blows did not destroy Heckel. A spry, kindly eyed old man, he still paints, turning out about ten canvases a year that are light and lyrical and full of pleasing harmonies. "What intrigues me is the secret of color relations. The excitement of this has never ceased, and perhaps that is what keeps me going," he says. And: "Nature has provided for youth to scale heights and break walls. It is for the old to exploit what has been gained...