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...they recount their happy hours together, the minutiae of their business dealings and their increasingly divergent lives. "I am in distress at the press reports that come pouring in to us from the Fatherland," writes a worried Eisenstein from San Francisco a few letters later. Schulse observes cheerily from Munich: "I tell you, my friend, there is a surge - a surge. The people everywhere have had a quickening. You can feel it in the streets, and shops." A few exchanges later, the two men are enemies. What intervenes, of course, is Adolf Hitler. ("The man is like an electric shock...
...fierce color contrasts are used to depict a passionate intensity. In Heckel's Red Roofs (1909), the evening scarlet of the tiles spreads out across the flaming sky, where flicks of royal blue dance recklessly. A house and garden have become hallucinatory. Expressionism's second group, originally based in Munich, was made up of the Russian Wassily Kandinsky, the German Franz Marc and the circle around their one-issue journal, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). As the journal's name hints, this artist group was concerned with the romantic and mystical. The collection's seven paintings by Kandinsky show...
...CONVICTED. RUDOLF FISCHER, 52, German nightclub owner; of incitement to hate and anti-Semitism after he canceled a pro-Israel fund raiser involving the granddaughter of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; in Munich. Fischer argued that he simply didn't want to host political events; the prosecution claimed he had said he "wanted nothing to do" with Jews and would rather host a right-wing organization. He was fined $2,480 and sentenced to two months' probation...
Riefenstahl turns 100 this week, having survived career changes, war and its aftermath, decades of political criticism and ill health. Friends will fête her at a birthday bash in Munich. The rest of us get some party favors too, with the release of Impressions Under Water, her first film since 1954, and the publication of Africa (Taschen; 564 pages), a book of photos taken over the past four decades. Her new work looks at sea life and Sudanese tribesmen, not ruddy-cheeked Nazi youth or Olympic sprinters, but it's still of a piece with the old: stunning...
...California to Connecticut, signing contracts with dozens of parts suppliers. One reason is practical: the A380 will be the largest passenger airplane ever built, seating at least 555 on two decks, and its complex design requires Airbus to call on the most talented suppliers available, whether they're in Munich or Memphis. Another reason, though, is political: Airbus is spreading supply contracts to build a U.S. constituency for its aircraft and help avert any government restrictions that might favor Chicago-based Boeing over Airbus...