Word: vermeer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interesting was the fact that great international art exhibitions (Burlington House Exhibition, London; Rembrandt Exhibition, Amsterdam) have not been given without serious damage to some of the works exhibited. Jan Vermeer's "Head of a Young Girl" was returned to The Hague badly cracked from sudden changes in temperature due to numerous trips. A Flemish portrait by Emanuel de Witte went back to Leipzig with a large nail-hole through the canvas...
...Author. Jo Van Ammers-Küller, foremost Dutch novelist, was born in Delft (famed for ceramics and Painter Jan Van Delft Vermeer) of a family of doctors and lawyers. Her early writings awoke parental anxiety. At 20 she married, discontinued writing until her two sons were in school. When her husband became director of the Leyden gas works she began to write again. Charming, accomplished linguist, learned in stage lore, she wrote plays, novels, about actresses. Visiting the U. S. in 1925 she saw enough to write of U. S. family life in Tantalus. Other books in translation: The House...
...Spanish room contains Goyas, El Grecos and Zurbarans. Not startling are two Flemish rooms. The Dutch collection has numerous works by Hals and Vermeer and several Rembrandts. In the Altman collection are other Dutch, Italian and Spanish pictures...