Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mary Hoover studied painting with lusty George Luks and Provincetown's Charles W. Hawthorne. She won several scholarships, continued her work at Fontainebleau and at Munich, suddenly developed a great interest in modern young Spanish painters. The murals and zinc plate etchings of Luis Quintanilla in particular fascinated her. She pulled wires to see if she might study under him or be his assistant...
These figures, testimony revealed, consisted of an itemized list of the war weapons possessed by a local Munich Storm Troop section, despite Adolf Hitler's reiteration that his Storm Troops have never borne arms. The section leader, another simple German, had no typewriter and asked Roiderer as a favor to type the list, allowing him to keep a copy...
...plot thickened when abstemious Richard Roiderer set out to rescue from Munich saloonkeepers another teacher, dissolute Hans Wohlfahrt, letting him sleep in his room and introducing him to his fiancée, Margaret Sichert. "Together we three had nice, long discussions about music and books and art," testified Prisoner Roiderer. "My landlady, however, advised me to 'Be a man' and send Wohlfahrt away from my fiancee. I concede my holy stupidity. Wohlfahrt is not so-good a German...
...cheap hotel. "My God! My God!" cried Simple Richard Roiderer with tears running down his cheeks, "You don't know how good this makes me feel! I am going to see my old mother-this trial has turned her hair white-and my sweetheart in Munich. Then I will sail from Rotterdam to America. I have my ticket...
...German primitive room of Munich's famed Old Pinakothek Museum, Grant Wood on one of his few trips to Europe saw a grimy, meticulous little man painstakingly copying a 15th-Century panel with layer upon layer of tempera glaze. Wood realized that that was the way he should paint the U. S. scene. Back to Cedar Rapids he went, shaved off his pink whiskers, settled down to being the Breughel of the Com Belt among the dentists, butchers, farmers and shopkeepers with whom he was brought...