Word: museume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arts and Sciences--New Fogg Museum...
...medieval Germany. Instead it was the ceremonies attending the laying of a corner stone of the new Germanic Museum at Munich. The gold ring in the President's hand was the honor ring of the Museum with which Herr Goldenberger, the Bavarian Minister of Education, presented...
Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich nursed his chilblains. Jailbirds were glad, and school children, teachers, art students, functionaries at his Roerich Museum in Manhattan. They were glad because at last he was safe and recuperating from his five-year expedition in and around Tibet, in snow and desert. Where other expeditions dig and collect for science, he saw and painted for art. Snug with him at Darjeeling in northeast India last week were bales of his paintings. He has depicted the whole panorama of Tibet, scenery, people, customs. Some of his scenes are realistic; most are interpretative. A philosopher-painter, he prefers...
...young and conceited. He spent a year in Paris and turned impressionist. Fantastic flat decorations are his forte and peculiarity. In this manner he has tried to picture Russia's and Asia's past. His pieces number about 3,000. Several hundred are in the Roerich Museum in Manhattan. They are wierd, mystical, fascinating...
...Institute of United Arts, "uniting all the arts and giving to young America the spirit of creation." He founded another institution-Corona Mundi (Crown of the World), International Art Center, to take pictures (his own mostly) "directly to the people." New U. S. friends organized for him the Roerich Museum to hold his swift paintings. That museum now has about 750 of his 3,000 works. Other productions are in the Louvre, Luxembourg, Victoria & Albert museums. Finally moneyed friends started to build him a 24-story skyscraper on Riverside Drive. It will be completed next July. On lower floors...