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Erich Heckel is old-80 this week. The vital and violent movement that he and two colleagues, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and the late Ernst Kirchner, started nearly six decades ago is now a part of both history and legend. There is proof, in a current show of Heckel's work in the stately main hall of the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, that passion and emotion once flamed as hotly in this old man as ever in any iconoclastic rebel. But he now lives quietly and serenely in an orchard-ringed farmhouse on Lake Constance, sometimes reminiscing about a youth that...
Heckel in his 20s was a bursting bomb. With Kirchner and Schmidt-Rottluff, he worked in a studio that had once been a cobbler's shop in the working-class district of Dresden. Since the three young artists were in revolt against convention, including the hiring of professional models, they painted their own girl friends in the nude; at any one time three or four of these young ladies might be milling in happy nakedness around the kerosene stove, on which a pot of coffee was always steaming. The artists worked at any hour of the day or night...
...management of this concert showed some worthwhile innovations. Several of the performers were musicians hired for the occasion, and thanks to Music Department funds, the eight pieces played (from Leon Kirchner's composition seminar) all received competent performances. The evening lacked the impromptu quality which has usually marred these concerts, and a fine crowd came to hear...
...catalogue of the "degenerate art'' show put on by Nazi Propagandist Joseph Goebbels in 1937 has, with predictable irony, become a handy checklist of great modern German artists-Lehmbruck, Barlach, Kirchner, Grosz, Nolde, Ernst. But one artist, Otto Dix, who was considered so crass that no fewer than 16 of his works were hung in the show, is only now getting recognition commensurate with that backhanded accolade. Berlin and Darmstadt have seen comprehensive Dix exhibitions in the past couple of years, and his current show in Stuttgart is drawing praise from critics all over Germany...
Friday, August 17: 3:15 p.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event Aspects of Music 8 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Charles Munch. Kirchner: Sinfonia Conducted by the Composer; Berlioz: Harold in Italy (de Pasquale) - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, Reformation...