Word: lowland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such a decline from the initial enthusiasm for his project, curator Kuno Francke could never achieve his original aim of demonstrating the full development of German art from the Roman Empire to present times, as well as showing the relation of Scandinavian, Lowland, English, Swiss and American art to their Germanic influences. However, during the '20's and '30's the museum enjoyed the heyday of its activities, with a heavy schedule of exhibits, concerts, slide lectures, plays, book collections, sculpture and paintings, and even a children's art center in the basement...
...museum plans to supplement this exhibit from its own Lowland art collection...
...Lowland Art Exhibit...
...Shangri-La of Southeast Asia. It is mistily mountainous, covered with tiger-haunted jungle and elephant-inhabited rain forest, and can only be reached by air, by traversing two very bad roads, or by sailing up the mighty Mekong. Half its people are Thais, living in the lowland valleys; the other half are primitive Khas and Meos. Huge, smiling statues of Buddha dot the landscape, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks are everywhere. Wearing scarlet jackets, gold and silver beads and bracelets and flowers in their hair, the Laotian women are graceful and attractive and given to music, dancing and proverbs...
...sharpest fight of the week was fought for possession of a hill mass near Yonchon, from which the guardian searchlights at Panmunjom could be seen at night. The high ground which a U.S. unit held controlled wide reaches of surrounding lowland, and was essential to any attack along the Yonchon route. By week's end, correspondents were calling it "Little Gibraltar" or "Armistice Ridge." Apparently the Chinese wanted it inside their lines before the negotiators at Panmunjom finished plotting the line of contact...