Word: rer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controlled by local boards of education, Dewey's ideas have made slow and sporadic progress. Czechoslovakia, which has a national school system, moved more swiftly. In 1929 Dr. Príhoda was appointed to head a national school reform committee by Socialist Education Minister Ivan Dérer. First step of the reformers was to start experimental progressive schools in a few cities. So rapidly did the progressive movement spread that by 1933 the Ministry of Education decreed a revision of the curriculum for the entire country, permitted progressive methods in all schools...
...lithography, as in that of engraving and woodcut, a curious legendary role belongs to laundry. Plate engraving is supposed to have been discovered when someone threw a heap of wet linen over a steel cuirass, later found it patterned from the intaglio work on the steel. Albrecht Dürer was reputedly driven to the solace of wood blocks by his wife's demeanor after her hard day's washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful...
...lawyers discovered that, though property of German individuals and of the German Reich was safe from legal action, holders of defaulted German municipal bonds might possibly be able to seize pictures belonging to German municipal museums. Twenty-six pictures were hastily withdrawn, including two fine Holbeins, a Dűrer, three Altdorfers and two portraits by famed Bartholomaeus Bruyn. In the 81 paintings and 150 drawings left, there was still enough to make the show one of the most important of the 1936 season. Possibly the high spot of the whole exhibit is Lucas Cranach's famed Venus...
...None of the Old Masters issued prints limited to 100 proofs and signed in pencil. One never finds a Rembrandt etching, or a print by Dürer, Mantegna, Van Dyck, Goya, Turner, Delacroix or Daumier so signed and limited. These masters or their dealers printed impressions as long as people wanted them...
...Otto ever gets a chance to walk into his museum, he will be able to see art works dating from an Egyptian 1900 B. C. tomb to paintings of the 18th Century Dutch School. He will be able to boast of his collections of Dürer, Rembrandt, Holbein, Rubens, Velasquez, and the world's finest Breughels. He may point to his Raphael Madonna as one of the world's very best. In one of his armor rooms, the finest save for Madrid's, he will see ancient Turkish bridles and reins studded with emeralds the size...