Sentences with phrase «east german»

In this study 357 students from a West German University (Koblenz) and an East German University (Magdeburg) majoring either in computational visualization (CV) or in non-technical fields (NTF) were examined with the Mental - Rotation Test (MRT).

Last, we tested whether the results held for both the former West and East German states and found the same patterns as the results reported earlier in this article.

Study of Health In Pomerania (SHIP): a health examination survey in an east German region: objectives and design

The SOEP was started in 1984, with the East German states added in 1991.

Dubious 1990 benchmark Most of the country's CO2 reductions since 1990 arose from the shutdown of old communist run East German industry, after the eastern and western parts of the divided nation united in 1990.

Even bigger reductions were achieved by households (32.9 %) and industry (33.8 %), helped by the fall of the Berlin wall and the subsequent decline of East German industry and power production and the 2009 economic crisis.

Alarmist attempts to slam Climate Depot for «Nazi» reference — But Climate Depot did not make one — only to East German Stasi

For example, in Germany, 1990 was after unification but before wildly inefficient east German factories had been shut down.

I later married a woman I met who lived her whole life in that world of East German «social justice.»

«Angela Merkel, the German prime minister, wrote the Framework Convention on Climate Change when she was an East German,» Michaels pointed out, but «Germany has resumed building coal - fired power plants because they can't get enough electricity out of solar energy and windmills.

We found a horticulturalist who had done a roof used by the East German military to camouflage MIG fighters during the Cold War.

, that he cites obscure popular pieces by Wolfgang Brune (a former DDR / East German scientific advisors he stumbled upon who happens to deny the very existence of the greenhouse effect itself!!)

Paintings from the 1980s and Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier open on 23 February at Michael Werner Gallery in London and will remain on view through 21 April.

The film was featured at the 2008 Whitney Biennial and collects mundane Stasi surveillance footage, interviews with psychoanalysts, East German «Indian hobbyists» and shots of derelict state radio stations.

Equally assured behind the wheel of her Trabantimino, popping the back wheels, and lying sprawled out in a bikini on the floor of the old East German factory where the original Trabant was constructed, her work speaks to both car lovers and fetishists alike all the while sending an empowering message for women everywhere.

2010 Permanent Trouble: Art from the Collection Kopp Munich, East German Art Forum Gallery, Regensburg, Germany (cat.)

After the war, Gerhard lived for sixteen years under East German Communism.

He and his East German contemporary Gerhard Richter (almost ten years older) came up with a German variant of Pop they briefly called «Capitalist Realism.»

Andrea Grützner, an East German photographer born in 1984, takes photographs featuring urban geometry with a dose of wit.

Set to an emo Stereolab soundtrack and undeniably slick, the monologues are interspersed with East German educational material and sexy footage from the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

«Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier» is one of A.R. Penck's most important large - scale sculptures.

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He's lived under Hitler's Reich, the East German «Democratic» Republic, and a divided and reunited German Bundesrepublik.

A great body of work by Peter Piller at Andrew Kreps reworks the East German magazine Armeerundschau's photographs of military vehicles and pin up girls.

He described his conception of «Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier» as a «positive» version of that ancient site and an abstract embodiment of man's passage from life to death.

Under the East German communist regime, they were watched by the secret police and were considered dissidents.

These works were presented under the name of «Capital Realism», a nod to both East German Social Realist art movement and Pop Art in America.

For roughly three decades, twin sisters Jane and Louise Wilson have created large - scale photographs inspired by important events in European history — in the process, capturing the nuclear site at Chernobyl and the former headquarters of the East German secret police.

The Pietzsch couple purchased their first artwork, by the East German painter Gerhard Altenbourg, in 1964.

In Hoyerswerda, German photojournalist Stefan Boness presents an intimate and forlorn portrait of the East German town of Hoyerswerda.

For their first West German exhibition in 1968, Winkler adopted the pseudonym AR Penck — after Ice Age geologist Albrecht Penck — partly to conceal his activities from East German authorities, partly declaring his self - division as a painter.

A Selection of Spyware (Soviet and East German spy equipment) from the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, curated by anonymous

interpretation of a 1970s East German space program.

Cohen took her «Trabantimino,» the lowrider hybrid of an East German Trabant and a Chevrolet El Camino, to Marfa, Texas, where she photographed her journey of 70 miles along the River Road in the Texas desert.

This work quickly developed into a critique of the East German approach to city building and led ultimately to a conceptual approach to portraiture of the Socialist state.

Ralf Winkler, the German artist who rose to fame in the 1970s with his caterwauling, violent, humorous, rigorously flat paintings of stick figures, animals and monsters that he signed with the pseudonym A. R. Penck (the better to elude unsympathetic East German officials, at least for a while), has periodically made stuffed felt sculptures.

In this volume, Calle interviews inhabitants of the former East Berlin, whom she asked to react to the disappearance of various symbols, monuments or commemorative plaques — for example, the Two Soldiers Monument on Hohenschönhauser Strasse or the East German Republic insignia on the façade of the Republican Palace.

German painter Moritz is going full - on cold war for her memories of her East German childhood in her first solo show at Pillar Corrias.

Denny's installation reaps dramatic force through its location in the vast conference room of a building that was formerly the site of the East German Staatsrat (State Council) and is now a management school.

Once back in Düsseldorf he produced To the People of New York City (1976), a 15 - part work comprising 39 aluminum panels painted in variations of cadmium red, cadmium yellow, and black — the colors of the West and East German flags (and now the German one)- ever changing in pattern.

Each depicts a panorama of characters and symbols from pre-1960s East German propaganda.

The former «Kunst im Heim» gallery of the GDR, is a classic example of East German Modernism, built in 1964 by architects Kaiser and Franek to house a display of fine and applied arts from the countries of the Eastern Block.

Is the government now spying on its citizens like the old East German Stasi?

«The posters, over 100 of which were donated to the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz by collectors Margrit and Gert Becker, demonstrate that the East German art scene was much more diverse than previously assumed.

Another scoffs at Social Realism by amassing newspaper images of East German Olympic athletes and crossing each out with a big black X.

Among the over 70 East German artists represented by posters in the show are Gerhard Altenbourg, Carlfriedrich Claus, Lutz Dammbeck, Hartwig Ebersbach, Holger Fickelscherer, Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler, and Willy Wolff, along with influential artists» groups such as Autoperforation Artists, Clara Mosch, and the Dresdner Sezession 89.

Major Exhibition Spotlights East German Posters created in face of Censorship September 7 — December 4, 2010 [DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE] New York City (July 15, 2010)-- New York University's Grey Art Gallery is pleased to announce the first American museum exhibition of artists» posters created in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the 23 - year period preceding -LSB-...]

The Dashanzi 798 arts zone in the northeast of the city was once a military industrial wasteland of Bauhaus - style buildings by East German architects built as part of a Socialist unification strategy in the 1950s.

A.R. Penck: Paintings from the 1980s and Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier @ Michael Werner Gallery, Mayfair, London

Widespread plunder of private collections also took place following the victory of the Red Army in 1945, and in the 1970s when East German authorities would levy unaffordable tax bills on collectors, accepting works of art in lieu of payment.