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Born Nov. 18, 1904, son of a minor Lowland laird...
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...