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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...
...permission to take his collection with him on condition he turn over to the German government Lucas Cranach's painting, The Judgment of Paris. After the war, it was returned to him still bearing the label, THE PROPERTY OF REICHSMAR-SCHALL GOERING. Von Hirsch gave it to the Kunstmuseum in Basel...
Mondrian was one of the great lawgivers of modern art. He was born just short of 100 years ago, at Utrecht in 1872; he died in New York in 1944. To mark his centenary, the Guggenheim Museum has assembled a retrospective which later goes to Bern's Kunstmuseum in Switzerland. The show is a reminder of what "high seriousness"-a quality notably absent from most recent art-can mean in the hands of a master...
Board-Room Banalities. "Only an American museum," says Director Charles Nagel, "would organize an exhibition of this kind; only Americans would undertake such self-analysis so unashamedly." To find the portraits they needed, Nagel and his assistants fanned out to museums as far away as Basel's Kunstmuseum, where they discovered the only known likeness of Andrew Johnson painted while he was in office. It was the work of the itinerant Swiss artist Frank Buchser. The scouts brought it back, together with the Buchser portraits of California's Sutter and Poet William Cullen Bryant, who looks as though...
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