Word: lugano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King's good graces. Four hundred years later German Industrialist Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza bought the panel from Britain's Earl Spencer. Over loud protests from the London art world, he carried it off triumphantly to his villa on the Swiss side of Lake Lugano. Reproduced full-scale opposite, the picture smoothly reveals the great and terrible monarch in all his bejeweled, beplumed, begorged splendor. But Holbein at his most flattering could not help penetrating to a man's character: he has given Henry a killer's coldly reflective eyes...
...Thyssen collection of old masters runs to some 500 works, including dozens that rival even the Holbein in quality. But this banquet for the eyes is off the tourist track at Lugano, tucked away in a wing of Thyssen's cypress-shaded palazzo. Made public partly for tax purposes, the museum is not open all year or every day, but whoever gets to Lugano between April 1 and Nov. 1 can take the trolley to the Thyssen estate and present himself at the gates Friday through Monday for one of the treats of his life...
...Perennial Prizewinner Nicholson (TIME, Nov. 19), who won the Carnegie International top award in 1952, was a prizewinner in the 1954 Venice Biennale, and earlier this year won the Grand Prize at the Lugano IV International, the cash was probably as welcome as the credit. Though "delighted by the award," Winner Nicholson was not willing to go far toward helping viewers puzzle out the meaning of his serene grey, white and dull-brown forms. He would say only that Val d'Orcia is in Tuscany, adding abstractly: "Of course I should say that the color and shape, for color...
...artists. The speed and distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon) and Spain (Granada). Almost as agile will be the U.S.'s own great Philadelphia Orchestra, whose stops will include Lugano, Vienna, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Stockholm, Helsinki...
...preparation for the four-power meeting in Berlin, the three Western powers had made all the concessions. After suggesting Jan. 4 for the meeting, they let Russia set the date: Jan. 25. The West wanted to meet in Lugano, Switzerland; when Russia proposed Berlin, the Western powers agreed to that, too. The West wanted to take up only the question of Germany and Austria, but it conceded to Russia's demand for an agendaless or wide open conference. Last week the Western powers gave in again. After days of haggling, the four powers agreed to hold their discussions...