Sentences with phrase «exiled german»

The centrepiece of Wantee, it purports to tell the unlikely story of her grandfather, a conceptual artist who was a friend of Schwitters, the exiled German collagist and performance artist.

In 1934, a year after Hitler's accession to power, the exiled German painter established his Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, on Fifty - seventh Street.

In the first instance he is a self - exiled German Jew who feels guilt at having left while others stayed; secondly, despite being fluent in English and able to move freely between the British officers and the German prisoners (sometimes passing himself off as a prisoner), he feels at home in neither camp.

There was, however, a hypothetical recall for exiled German Bastian Schweinsteiger.

It is significant that the most important immediate source of living inspiration for the While Rose were the radio broadcasts of the exiled German author and Nobel laureate, Thomas Mann.

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As Nazis had driven much of the Norwegian government into exile in England, Olso University students protested the German rule by «binding» together with paperclips.

The German mystical idea of the birth in the soul of the Urgrund, or godhead, resembles the Kabbalistic and Hasidic idea of the unification of God and His exiled immanence.

Struggling to reconcile her guilt and disillusionment with years of working on the front lines in the «war on terror,» Carrie (Claire Danes) finds herself in a self - imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA and working as the head of security for a German philanthropist.

As Barbara, a physician exiled to an East German provincial town as punishment for having applied for an exit visa from the GDR (the film is set in 1980, almost a decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall), Hoss exudes such fierce wariness and disdain for her colleagues, whom she realistically suspects may be spying on her for the Stasi, that the film's suspense lies less in whether she'll be able to smuggle herself out of this country she detests than whether she will exhibit any humanity, any crack in her icy demeanor.

The Killers (1946) is exemplary film noir from Robert Siodmak, who, on the strength of three films — this, Phantom Lady (1944), and Criss Cross (1949)-- stands beside his fellow German exiles Fritz Lang and Otto Preminger as one of noir's crucial d...

In this interesting and engaging book, Seth writes about his great uncle Shanti Behari Seth (Shanti Uncle), born in Biswan, and his German Jewish great aunt, Hennerle Caro (Aunty Henny), born in Berlin, describing them as two exiles who found their home in each other.

Among her groundbreaking exhibitions and publications over the past forty years are The Russian Avant - Garde, 1910 - 1930: New Perspectives; German Expressionist Sculpture; Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant - Garde in Nazi Germany; Exiles + Émigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 — 2000, and exhibitions of David Hockney, Ed Kienholz, Ken Price, Maria Nordman, Sharon Lockhart, and Alexander Calder, several of which featured installations designed by Frank Gehry.

This article investigates the exile of German modernist artist Kurt Schwitters, who spent his final years in the Lake District...

There he met Fernand Léger, among other members of the Parisian avant - garde exiled to New York by the German invasion of Paris.

In the first phase of his career (1939 - 1948), Greenberg was a Trotskyite socialist (a vision of socialism based on the ideas of the exiled and ultimately murdered Russian revolutionary and thinker Leon Trotsky) with an interest in the social and psychological background of the artist and in theories of the medium, especially those of influential German - born painter and educator Hans Hofmann.

German exile H.W. Janson joined the faculty of Washington University's Department of Art History and Archaeology in 1941.

From 1948 to 1950, aware of the need for brand spanking new public spaces in cities, German painter Hans Hofmann and Catalan architect Joseph Luis Sort — who become residing in exile within us at the time — designed a church in Chimbote, Peru, that became in no way built.

These exiles included figures like the Armenian - born Arshile Gorky, who settled in the US in 1920, and the German - born Hans Hofmann who migrated to America in 1930, as well as the German Expressionist George Grosz (1893 - 1959), the Cubist Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955), the Bauhaus abstract painter Josef Albers (1888 - 1976) and the geometrical abstractionist Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944).

In the last years of his life, German artist Kurt Schwitters lived in exile in the Lake District, where he...

He was one of many German exiles, including a significant number of artists, who were interned on the Isle of Man during World War Two.

The Schwalbe story is a long and winding one, from the beginnings of the original Stimson & Co. steelworks producing guns and gun barrels in Suhl, Germany, in 1856, to the production of bicycles in 1896 and cars in 1907, to the exile of the Jewish founding family in 1936 and the post-WWII reboot of the company in former East Germany (German Democratic Republic, or DDR) making mopeds, motorcycles, and scooters.