Word: kunstlied
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...people continue to live in stuffy homes," says Louis Wijsenbeek, director of The Hague's Municipal Museum, "it is hard to see how a man of use to us or to the world can develop." Last week, in an exhibition called Kunst en Kitsch (Art and Claptrap), Director Wijsenbeek gave the public some pointers on what a well-appointed house should be. His Kunst living rooms had a few simple pieces of light-colored modern furniture, prints by Braque, Matisse and Leger. Kitsch rooms had overdecorated wood buffets, shrieking landscapes on the walls, artificial flowers on the table...
...Years or Forever. But when Hitler's armies invaded The Netherlands, Mengelberg welcomed them with open arms. At war's end he fled to Switzerland, and the Dutch Centrale Ereraad voor de Kunst (Central Council of Honor for the Arts) forbade him to conduct ever again in Holland, later reduced his banishment to six years-well knowing that for Mengelberg, then 76, six years might be forever...
...Because of the scarcity of German-speaking guards, the Nazis can proselyte openly. In one so-called art class, conducted by a Nazi, students diligently repeated lessons right out of the Nazi book: the statue of a racially impure woman is unschön (ugly); art should be Zweck-Kunst (art for a purpose...
...suggest a petition similar to that of the John Reed Society advocating inter-racial army units to be sponsored by the Student Council, the representative of the whole student body. Lionel Kunst...
Since Art is a Munich specialty, since Adolf Hitler used to paint and is distinctly "arty," the program followed by II Duce-apart from a quick round of laying wreaths on Nazi shrines in Munich "The Capital of the Nazi Party and of Nazidom"-was loaded heavily with Kunst (Art). Under this head came 400 of Germany's prettiest stage and cinema actresses. At tea in the Museum of German Art, the Dictators kissed cinewomen's hands while they gushed, but Boxer Max Schmeling was also a guest and the German actresses seemed to prefer Schmeling...