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...Durer, however, the issues become clear without confusing the matter with a French school--German school alternative. Nothing cou'd be more Germanic than these fifteenth century prints. Even if Durer and his contemporaries hadn't the horrors of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Third Reich to motivate them, they found substance for equally dramatic expression in the Apocalypse, the Christ passion, or even in a coat of arms of death...
William Howard Taft was President of the U.S. when Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstierne arrived in Washington as a junior attaché at the old Norwegian legation in 1910. Named Norway's Minister to the U.S. in 1934 and Ambassador in 1942, he saw the U.S. through seven other Presidents, three wars, depression and unprecedented prosperity. Last week, frail and bent at 70, Wilhelm de Morgenstierne, dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, on the eve of his retirement paid a farewell visit to an old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. As he left the White House, Morgenstierne offered some advice about...
...Communism's double-edged battle-axes was made an ambassadress in an appointment smacking strongly of nepotism. East Germany's first envoy to Yugoslavia: Lieut. General Eleonore ("Lore") Staimer, 51, dutiful daughter of East Germany's puppet President Wilhelm Pieck. She will probably take her Belgrade post next month, work hard at cultivating new amity between Tito and Soviet satellites...
Nowhere does an expansiveness of spirit succeed better than in the realm of sculpture, to wit that of George Kolbe and especially of Wilhelm Lehmbruck. The latter transforms his message to drawing with the same permanence and surety he exhibits in stone, and in expressionism or any other art, permanence is what ultimately counts...
Bruegel was early a Habsburg favorite. Emperor Rudolph II delighted in his works. Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the greatest of the Habsburg collectors, added still more paintings during his rule as governor of The Netherlands. The Habsburg collection, hidden in salt mines during World War II and then sent traveling for seven years, is now back in place, a favorite tourist stop that draws from 3,000 to 4,000 visitors a day during the peak summer tourist season...