Word: weissenburg
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Hofmann was born in Weissenburg, Bavaria, and his well-meaning father, a stolid civil servant, had hopes that the boy would one day be a famous scientist. Young Hofmann had the aptitude: he pored over engineering books, when scarcely out of school invented an electromagnetic comptometer. But at 18 he abandoned his tinkering to devote himself fulltime to art. He went to Paris, had a brief flirtation with the Fauves-the radical "wild beasts" who were moving away from objective naturalism-and with the cubists. The affair was "rather a platonic one," says he, for he was already preoccupied with...
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