Word: leibling
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...19th century matters-a taste formed and dominated by Paris, from impressionism onward. Ten years ago, there was not one art course in America that would have suggested that Friedrich was a painter of comparable importance to Géricault or even Delacroix, or that the work of Wilhelm Leibl or Hans Thoma might be anything better than an able but provincial reaction to that of Gustave Courbet. It was not always so; last century, Munich influenced American artists even more than Paris. There are plenty of parallels, if not exact concordances, between the infinite longings expressed in German romantic...
...could be found on either side of the Atlantic who could make a reasonable claim to the place in the roster vacated by him. Revivals of Wagner haven't been stopped because of this shortage of dramatic tenors, but all of them have been impaired by it. Neither Leibl nor nor Vinay, holdovers from previous seasons, has provided the solution to this serious problem...
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