Word: newald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting rooms and ministers' offices, says Tillich, are "dangerously irreligious, and they are something against which everybody who understands the situation of our time has to fight." Against them he puts paintings that attempt to thrust the viewer face to face with reality, 16th century Matthias Grünewald's famed Crucifixion on the Isenheim altar ("I believe it is the greatest German picture ever painted"). Modern existentialism in art, he says, begins with Cézanne and penetrates to "the depths of reality" in pictures like Van Gogh's Starry Night...
...story of the Nativity. No subject in Western art has had more enduring appeal for the hearts and minds of men. From the West's earliest known painting of the Madonna and Child (TIME, May 16) through the passionate, attenuated figures of El Greco and Grünewald to such diverse moderns as Gauguin and Matisse, the elemental yet intimate scene of mother and newborn son has filled men with awe and rejoicing. To celebrate this event, artists have enriched the story with regal Byzantine mosaics, the glories of Chartres' medieval stained glass, with enamels, jewels, oils...
...success of Dürer's work led the way for other German artists-Matthias Grünewald, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Holbein the Younger and Martin Luther's great friend, Lucas Cranach-whose work made Germany for half a century the leader of the Northern Renaissance. The level of excellence achieved in this brief period is shown by Cranach's son and pupil, Lucas Cranach the Younger. Starting with a piece of paper tinted slightly pink, the young Cranach sketched the head and shoulders of the young Princess Elizabeth of Saxony (see color page) with quick brush...
Perhaps the most exciting of the lot was Grünewald's Crucifixion, one of just 15 paintings by the German master that are known to exist. The torment of Grünewald's art exerts a peculiar fascination for 20th century connoisseurs: more than 400 studies of him have been published since 1914. The National Gallery has always been weak in German art (as are most galleries west of the Rhine) but the Kress gifts will change all that. According to Guy Emerson, vice director of the Kress Foundation, Grünewald's Crucifixion will dominate...
...Real Cigar. As the leader of German Protestantism, Dibelius lives in a spacious, old-fashioned house on Faradayweg (Faraday Lane) in the correct Dahlem suburb of West Berlin. A copy of Matthias Grünewald's great 16th century altarpiece hangs on his study wall, and his conference room is decorated with statues of German saints. Since his wife Armgard died four months ago, his 42-year-old daughter Christel has kept house for him, and she is the hostess at his frequent official dinners...