Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Legal Mind. In Munich, after he was sentenced to a three-day jail term or a 15-mark ($4.70) fine in 1952 for illegal fishing, Robert Adler spent a day in jail and then disappeared, got picked up by the Russians and shipped to Vorkuta slave labor camp for three years, was collared by Berlin authorities when he finally returned, forced to pay the 10-mark balance of his fine...
...sketchbook was found with Marc's body, and in the sketchbook were 35 exquisite drawings no bigger than his hand. The drawings were sent to Marc's widow, who kept them until her death last year. Last week, in Munich's Graphische Sammlung, they were shown publicly for the first time...
...Wrote Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Nothing about them suggests the milieu in which they were born ... in the midst of war and destruction Franz Marc's gaze turned inward . . . from crystalline lines he lets the Birth of a Cicada come into being. Animals appear: deer, horses . . . and the feather-light body of a swallow . . . Already far away from presenting the material, the visible, the drawings try to grasp a spiritual reality and make the objects transparent...
Marc had gone far, and fast, beyond his beginnings in art. A student of the Munich Academy, he once recalled that "the artistic desert of the 19th century was our nursery." He escaped the desert via Paris, went home full of the doings of the Fauves and cubists. In 1911 he joined with Klee and Kandinsky to found a group of equal importance called Der Blaue Reiter...
Exit Ludwig. A duel in the Bois de Boulogne (afterwards, Lola looked smashing in her bereaved-mistress' weeds) set her firmly in the center of what would now be called cafe society. But her real career began when she was engaged to dance in Munich and bewitched old King Ludwig (her bodice tore at just the right moment and place). Lola moved into the posh palace he built for her in Munich and prepared to run the country. Then, as now, advanced ideas were a prime source of self-advertisement, and Lola had absorbed a set of "bold...