Word: ulrich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bruce Bowling, Celtic Alexander Gerschenkron, David Landes. History Ulrich Petersen, Donald Warwick, Social Relations
...Nazis in 1934, worked in London for three years, then came to the U.S. In 1938, he accepted the post of chairman of Harvard's Department of Architecture, and the school quickly became the focus of young talent, including such now famous architects as Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph, Ulrich Franzen, John Johansen and I. M. Pei. Gropius insisted that their work meet society's needs and that they move ahead alongside industry-until then largely overlooked by architects as a partner in their art. A technical innovation like the prefabricated glass-and-plastic facade, he knew, could...
...Hans Kiesel, the lucky West German businessman who bought a grimy oil of a couple of nudes at the flea market in Paris for $40, only to discover a long-lost Monet hidden beneath it? The find was fully restored and authenticated by experts at the respected Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig. One of the great impressionist's Gare St. Lazare paintings, it was dated 1877 and worth possibly $1,000,000. Well, last week Kiesel gleefully announced that it was all a rib. An artist friend had first removed the original scene of two nudes sunbathing, then...
...atmosphere is invariably one of warmth, and the architectural scale is everywhere measured by human dimensions. Architect Ulrich Franzen is a master of the broken line and the ingratiating curve. Nothing is rigid and antiseptic. Masculinity and femininity thrust, parry, yield and wed in a superlative marriage of craft and art. The main theater itself, a semicircular urn of intimacy seating 798, is a kind of womb with seats. Decked out in soft brown and nuzzling together like cattle, the rows of theater seats are concentrated reminders that the playgoer is in an edifice indigenous to the Southwest, a vivid...
...stepped up to the elder-statesman role of chairman of its supervisory board. To succeed him as Sprecher des Vorstandes, or speaker for its ten-man executive board, the Frankfurt-based bank picked not one but two associates: Karl Klasen, 58, head of its Hamburg office, and Franz Heinrich Ulrich, 56, who will also continue to manage its Dusseldorf division. Though withdrawing from active banking, Abs remains one of his country's most powerful businessmen. A director of 29 large companies, he retains the chairmanship of 15, including Daimler-Benz, Lufthansa and the Deutsche Bundesbahn, the state-owned railway...