Word: uhlmann
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...century. What we see are derivative paintings. The influence of the American abstract expressionist school is clear in the work of Fritz Winter (this school itself of course has its roots in Kandinsky's early experiments). Willi Baumeister is a second-rate Miro. And others like Hans Uhlmann and Ernst Wilhelm Nay are bound in vision of Picasso. Were it not for the fact that many of the theorists of German art, like Albers who is at Yale, are now cut off from their traditional sources, Germany might now be once again making important contributions to the fine arts...
France was most heavily represented, with seven artists, and made the poorest showing. Its entries were mostly tasteful, but merely tasteful. Germany did better. Hans Uhlmann offered abstract metal sculptures that look gay as birds yet precisely engineered as bridges. Fritz Winter's contrastingly gloomy canvases showed what dim-lit richness a few masterfully placed bars and smears of color can assume. The British contingent was all grim, and saved from dullness only by the brilliant horror pictures of Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953), who can make a painted face seem to shout out loud...
...Chicago, Perfume King (Tabu) J. Leslie Younghusband, whose Florida wedding to Dancer Mary Uhlmann made quite a social splash back in 1937 (Younghusband slugged one newspaperman behind the ear, threw another into the swimming pool), filed suit for divorce on the ground that fifth wife Mary had gone off and left...