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Died. Alfred Kubin, 82, Austrian graphic artist in the great tradition of Diirer and Holbein, whose preoccupation with death and decay took shape in grotesque, pitiful figures trapped in a maze of twisted lines, mostly illustrations for books of authors particularly fascinating to him: Edgar Allan Poe, Dostoevsky, Strindberg; in Zwickledt, Austria...
...Hans Holbein's first portrait of Henry VIII was a miniature, done in 1537 to win the King's good graces. Four hundred years later German Industrialist Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza bought the panel from Britain's Earl Spencer. Over loud protests from the London art world, he carried it off triumphantly to his villa on the Swiss side of Lake Lugano. Reproduced full-scale opposite, the picture smoothly reveals the great and terrible monarch in all his bejeweled, beplumed, begorged splendor. But Holbein at his most flattering could not help penetrating...
...Thyssen collection of old masters runs to some 500 works, including dozens that rival even the Holbein in quality. But this banquet for the eyes is off the tourist track at Lugano, tucked away in a wing of Thyssen's cypress-shaded palazzo. Made public partly for tax purposes, the museum is not open all year or every day, but whoever gets to Lugano between April 1 and Nov. 1 can take the trolley to the Thyssen estate and present himself at the gates Friday through Monday for one of the treats of his life...
...Germany's greatest painter? Half a century ago, the title would have been disputed among Albrecht Diirer, Lucas Cranach and Hans Holbein the Younger. Now Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born head of the History of Art Department at London University's Birkbeck College, unhesitatingly comes out for the 16th century Gothic master whom critics have long called Matthias Griinewald...
After repeating this procedure with Holbein's King Henry VIII, Cranach's Lucretia and a Modigliani portrait, Trevor-Roper went on to examine other artists affected by eye diseases. Cézanne's myopia may be the reason, he said, for Cézanne's blur. Monet suffered from cataract, which caused his greens to become more yellow, his blues more purple. Constable may not have realized how brown his trees appeared to normal vision because he was colorblind. "A fuzziness or what art historians would call "breadth,' " he went on, is the weakness...