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...some art training, he was basically self-taught. Freud's German origins have suggested to some critics that early works like Girl with Roses, 1947-48, a portrait of his first wife, Kitty Garman, daughter of the sculptor Jacob Epstein, were done under the spell of the German Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) portraiture of the 1920s -- painters like Otto Dix or Christian Schad. Actually the basis was much earlier: Albrecht Durer, whose fixedly staring, ultradetailed watercolors set Freud's first standards about the inspection of faces and bodies...
...between ostentatious affluence in the West and relative poverty in the East, but that is a grating issue and not likely to disappear soon. Perhaps aware of this, along with the realization that life may have become too lavish, a few West Germans are tuning in to something called Neue Bescheidenheit, or new modesty -- an effort to get back to the essentials of the good life. It has had only modest success. "This is like Jackie Kennedy's basic black and pearls," says one critic. "The pearls are genuine, the basic black is cashmere, and the accessories are Hermes...
...Neue Presse of Hanover yesterday quoted Jewish Council chairman Heinz Galinski as saying of Jenninger: "No one is supporting him That's shown by the numerous protests that have reached me from all Jewish communities...
Once again art was carrying the kind of meanings that abstraction could not convey, and these were picked up by a second generation of artists in the mid- 1970s, such as Rainer Fetting and Helmut Middendorf. By the mid-1980s the Neue Wilde, or new fauves, had become such a market bandwagon, so copious a fount of self-important rhetoric, that the rediscovered anguish of the postwar German soul ran some risk of joining the death of Little Nell as one of those things one could not read about without laughing...
...kind of painting that obsessed the German avant-garde before 1914: fervent, ejaculatory, based on the human figure and full of pretensions toward expressive plangency and "primitive" directness. There has been a like revival of the kind of acrid satire and political chronicling that occupied the German Dadaists and Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) painters in the '20s. The image stream of German expressionism went underground, but not even Nazism could dry it up. It is the deep, continuous current of German modernism; it picks up different names, en route through the century; and here it is again, manifested...