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...good art," Beckmann said, "that is artistic sensuousness, combined with artistic objectivity toward the thing represented." Beckmann subjected even his nightmares to a harsh, objective light and portrayed them with a concrete reality that drew him acclaim, along with George Grosz and Otto Dix, as a leader of Neue Sachlichkeit, or new objectivity group...
...weary Germans what Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front did in words. By 1923, he had sold an enormous triptych, Trench, to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne for 10,000 gold marks, or nearly $3,000. Carrying on as lance bearer of the Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity), Dix went on to influence Max Beckmann and Georg Grosz with his sharp-edged, magical realism that applied the techniques of the old masters to the social misery of the anarchic Weimar Republic. With Hitler's rise, Dix was ousted from his professorship...
...week's unnerving slide was an outburst of resentful complaints at Wall Street's ability to panic stockholders everywhere. Protested Belgium's leading financial paper, L'Echo de la Bourse: "Nothing in our industrial situation justified an adjustment of such importance." Zurich's Neue Zürcher Zeitung wished that Swiss stock markets "would show some sense of emancipation" from Wall Street. But with the international financial community becoming ever more intertwined, one man's aches are surely going to continue to be another's pains...
...have ready access to high-level officials. All have at their fingertips the greatest daily outpouring of source material on earth-U.S. newspapers-and few hesitate to borrow heavily, with or without attribution. "If there is a real problem," says erudite Werner Imhoof of Switzerland's Neue Zürcher Zeitung, "it's that you are overwhelmed by news...
Under the great crystal chandeliers of Vienna's Neue Hofburg palace finance ministers and bankers from the 73 Western, African and Asian nations belonging to the International Monetary Fund last week grappled with a problem inconceivable only five years ago. The underlying-though unconfessed-preoccupation of the Vienna meeting; how to keep the U.S. dollar from being bullied by the newly muscular currencies of France, West Germany, Italy and Japan...