Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin, the year's best art exhibition had been the work of a Vienna-born American named Henry Koerner (TIME, April 28). In Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week, Koerner stole the show again. The Whitney's Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting was largely a dance of painted shadows: pictures that were either flatly abstract or academically pictorial. By contrast, Koerner's dramatic microcosm of modern life, which he called Vanity Fair, had the power of a compressed reality...
...post-World War I satires of Germany's George Grosz, but, says Koerner, "there's a difference: I do not accuse." One picture in his Berlin show, My Parents, was more than an accusation; it was a memorial portrait of his parents, painted in the Vienna woods, with their backs turned. (They had died in a Nazi concentration camp.) That was a picture which Europeans could best understand...
...lived privately for a time in his wife's native Hungary. He had begun to recognize friends. Then came war, and the sound of bombs sent him cowering back into his world of shadow. The Russians found him in Hungary, put him up in the best hotel in Vienna, gave him a box at the ballet. The Russians assured Romola that Nijinsky would be welcomed in Russia as a hero of the Soviet Union. Once they got him drunk, and Nijinsky danced for them (TIME, Aug. 20, 1945). But Romola wanted to take him to western Europe...
Christmas in Europe (Sun. 3 p.m., Mutual). Famed boys' choirs of Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Rome and London...
...Vienna, Wilhelm Furtwängler, famed prewar conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic (but officially cleared of Naziism), fared less well as he appeared for a concert at the music hall. A mob met him outside with boos and catcalls, and began shoving; a Soviet sentry fired a warning shot and Furtwängler got in. But shortly the mob got in, too. The concert and the hissing began about the same time. The demonstrators: former concentration camp inmates...