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Prepared by your ad hoc lectures at the Grossenvahn, you can begin to explore treasures such as the Kunstmuseum, with its Blaue Reiter collection. After several days immersed in the corners, splotches, and brushstrokes of Klee, Kandinsky,Jawlensky, Kirchner, Macke, and Dali, venture upstairs to explore the world of Munich's artists...
Finishing second to Coan in the fifty was Kris Kirchner of Texas in 19.95, followed by Rowdy Gaines of Auburn. Gaines led the Eagles with two individual sprint victories in the 100-yd. and 200-yd. freestyle, both American records...
DIED. Oskar Kokoschka, 93, Austrian-born expressionist; in Villeneuve, Switzerland. In his 20s the fiery, eccentric Kokoschka painted some of the great portraits of the century, which explored the recesses of the psyche, even as his compatriot Freud was probing it. With Kirchner, Nolde and Max Beckmann, among others, he was a founder of the style of radical figurative art known as German expressionism. After World War I he turned to bright cityscapes, and during his last years in Switzerland, to Alpine landscapes...
...Edwardian era, which lasted from 1901 to 1914, was the last great age of the society portrait in Europe-"great" not in artistic merit but in the large expectations that people had of portraiture as a form. For us, that appeal has largely vanished: artists like Munch, Kirchner and Giacometti have taught us to expect anything but social ease and confident display from the human head. The social portrait seems exhausted now, a cultural irrelevance. This fall has brought two exhibitions by American artists that underline the demise by recalling portraiture's vanished glories and suggesting its dubious status...
According to Isaacs, State Senator William Kirchner, 63, told him that he would kill himself if his name were printed. "He said that he's bought a hose and that he planned to attach it to his car in his garage, but that his garage was being rebuilt," said Isaacs. "He then asked if he could use my garage." Kirchner later admitted that the revelations about him were true, though "negative and vicious...