Word: hofmann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Murphy (H) 31:13; 2. Predmore (C) 31:25; 3. Porter (N) 31:27; 4. Collins (Col) 31:28; 5. Olds (Pr); 6. Kovach (N) 31:37; 7. Tatananni (D) 31:39; 8. Wehrwein (Y) 31:42; 9. Hofmann (Col) 31:42; 10. Miers (Col) 31:43; 11. Loomie (Col) 31:44; 12. Donahue (N) 31:50; 13. Weller (Penn) 31:51; 14. McNally (Col) 31:53; 15. Eichner...
...only child of a painter named Eleanore Lock-speiser, Mary Frank came to New York during World War II. At 17, she married the photographer Robert Frank. Although she had no formal training as a sculptor, she did study drawing in Manhattan during the '50s under Hans Hofmann, the doyen of abstract expressionist teachers. More important for her work, however, was a stint as a dance student with Martha Graham: the sense of significant gesture in Graham's choreography does seem to have affected the movement of Frank's own sculptures. The best of them possess the unfolding completeness...
...life of an artist, says Robert De Niro, is "a very show-bizzy thing. You're up and you're down." The speaker is not the actor but his father, who studied with Hans Hofmann and Josef Albers and "flirted with abstract expressionism briefly in the 1940s." Since then, he has had periodic shows of his loosely drawn portraits and landscapes somewhat reminiscent of Matisse. At a retrospective exhibition of his father's work at Los Angeles' Stuart David Galleries, De Niro Jr. was on hand for the opening. "I like my father's paintings...
...most notorious of the arrested terrorists was Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 28, a onetime journalism student who is a suspect in the murders of both Dresdner Bank Chairman Jurgen Ponto last July and of kidnaped Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer last October. Peter Boock, 26, and Sieglinde Hofmann, 33, are also suspects in the killings. Rolf Clemens Wagner, 33, was on the wanted list not only for participating in the Ponto and Schleyer atrocities, but also for the 1977 ambush murder of West German Prosecutor Siegfried Buback...
...mind because I didn't like the smell of oil." The smell of linseed oil was another matter; he spent five years studying art at the National Academy of Design in New York, did odd jobs as a carpenter and studied with the pioneer abstractionist Hans Hofmann. "I really didn't understand abstract painting," he recalls. "It took a long time to penetrate-so I have a sympathy for people who don't like...