Word: uecker
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Chocolates & Chaos. High on the list of Düsseldorfs innovators to gain international recognition over the past decade are Heinz Mack, 36, Otto Piene, 39, and Günther Uecker, 37 (see color pages). The three young "idealists" joined together as the Group Zero in 1958; their aim, according to Uecker, was to create "a white world" out of light, motion and other optical effects, and Zero presaged the founding of half a dozen other experimental groups in as many different countries. Another leader is Painter Gerhard Richter, enigmatic 1960 fugitive from East Germany's socialist realism, whose...
...leading modern-art collector, aristocratic Frau Fann Schniewind, has amassed a $1,000,000 collection that runs the gamut from a white-plaster woman painting her fingernails by U.S. Pop Sculptor George Segal to a white disk studded with a forest of white nails casting elliptical shadows by Gunther Uecker...