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Referring to the Jan. 4 article "Hidden Masterpiece: Kassel's Rembrandt," I was surprised to find Rembrandt had painted Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph. My aunt, Miss Ida Friedberger, made a tapestry in 1874 of this picture, and I now find it in my home...
...industrial city of Kassel, Germany, is off the tourist track, and its art museum has only 60,000 visitors a year (as against 200,000 each for Munich and Cologne). Yet Kassel's Gemaeldegalerie can boast of one of the world's most brilliant collections of early German and Flemish paintings, topped by no fewer than 19 Rembrandts. Kassel can thank the art-loving Landgrave Wilhelm VIII, who ruled Hesse from 1751 to 1760. As a youth, Wilhelm did military service in the Low Countries, fell in love with Flemish art, and got in the habit of collecting...
Many workers are using their new popularity to get wages double or treble the union rate, while some employers are cutting working hours. When Volkswagen opened its new Kassel truck plant, 3,000 workers were put on a 4O-hour week v. 44 in the usual contract. Other plants offer cut-rate housing, fatter pensions, and so-called Thirteenth Salary, i.e., a month's pay at Christmas, now almost standard in Germany...
...Franz Rosenzweig, aged six, was leaving his family's house in Kassel, Germany for his first session at school one day in 1893, his uncle took him by the shoulders and shook him. "My boy," he said, "you are going among people for the first time today; remember as long as you live that...
...world wars, Junkers won a fearsome fame. After each war, the victorious allies banned German plane production, and Junkers bided its time. Last week, after a seven-year shutdown, Junkers-makers of the screaming Stukas that terrified Poland and France-reopened its Kassel plant, announced that for the present it would make only machine tools but soon expects to be turning out its old line of goods, famous since...