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...Philip Hofer '21, lecturer on Fine Arts and Secretary of the Fogg Museum, the driver of one car, was thrown to the street from the impact of the accident, but escaped with no bruises...
...most obvious links to the past were provided by such oldtimers as Karl Hofer, 74, dean of the German expressionists, still painting his slab-faced people. The abstractionists and surrealists showed more vigor and inventiveness, but nothing to compare with the explosive stuff of postwar France and Italy. Among the best of them: Old Surrealist (59) Edgar Ende's The Organ and Deserted Shop, both stark and enlivened by bold strokes of coral, cerise, blue...
Expressionist Karl Hofer, 73, is dean of Berlin painters, head of a free West Berlin art school. His Houses is as good as anything in the show, and gloomier than all the rest. Its figures, half flesh and half masonry, seem to be waiting rigid in the dark for an inevitable bomb. Hofer knows what bombs can do. Forbidden by the Nazis to exhibit his work, he kept on painting in Berlin when war came, saw his studio and some 300 pictures destroyed in an air raid. After the war, he set about painting the same pictures over again. Human...
Surrealist Heinz Troekes, 37, is now in Paris on a grant from the French government. His Blind City looks like a nightmare view of Berlin, and though it lacks the comparison evident in Hofer's Houses, it is equally haunting. When he finishes a painting, Troekes says, he is "always quite startled and in a new world. In that world everything is quite natural for me. If it's not natural, the picture goes into the wastebasket...
Abstractionist Hans Jaenisch, 43, is considered one of Germany's most "promising" artists. Like Hofer, he lost most of his lifework to allied bombs, but Jaenisch was almost pleased when he returned from a Texas P.W. camp and found his paintings gone. "It left me free to begin all over again." Jaenisch's Air Lift: is one of 20 paintings he did on the same theme. The first few in the series reflect his early vision of the planes as "terrifying animals moving through the air. On these fearful creatures our whole life hung." By the time...