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...howling stick figure of The Scream could itself qualify as a self-portrait under the liberating definition employed here by curator Iris Müller-Westermann. "He started painting himself when he was 18, and didn't finish being interested in himself until he died at 80 [in 1944]," she says. "Through self-portraits he developed a pictorial language for emotions and doubts that he could then transfer to more general motifs...
...wonder There he is, too, leaning on a railing beneath a blood red sky in Despair (1892), an obvious precursor to The Scream (1893). The howling stick figure of The Scream could itself qualify as a self-portrait under the liberating definition employed here by curator Iris Müller-Westermann. "He started painting himself when he was 18, and didn't finish being interested in himself until he died at 80 [in 1944]," she says. "Through self-portraits he developed a pictorial language for emotions and doubts that he could then transfer to more general motifs." Müller...
...prized Japanese prints on the walls. Oddly, for a show dedicated to him, it seems a bit short on Van Goghs; but then the museum's unparalleled permanent collection is only an escalator away, and a shuttle bus out front makes 1 1/2-hour runs to the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, whose Van Gogh collection has been redesigned (ineptly) to display its 93 paintings and half of its 183 drawings at once, for the first time, including a few interesting works that are now officially recognized as fakes. That too might have nudged from Van Gogh...
...from pretty: the results were a fluke, buoyed by strong industry conditions and onetime earnings. In reality Sabena's finances were chronically weak even before the gigantic Airbus bills. Reutlinger left Sabena to take over Swissair's French airline operations in August 2000. Veteran Lufthansa executive Christoph Müller took over as Sabena CEO and immediately realized the danger. Within a month he outlined a drastic restructuring plan, dubbed Blue Sky. "You didn't need to be a rocket scientist" to know Sabena was in serious trouble, Müller says. "You just needed to read the balance sheet...
...Sabena's final months were an ugly mess. Up in arms over Müller's proposed cutbacks, unions staged work stoppages and at one point blocked a Swissair plane on the runway in Brussels. Swissair abandoned its hunter strategy and kicked out its CEO in early 2001 after reporting a $1.9 billion annual loss. It reneged on agreements to raise its stake in Sabena to 85% and inject more funds. The Belgians sued, and a compromise was finally agreed. Then came the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Air traffic worldwide nose-dived. Within a month, Swissair grounded its fleet...