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...cold, cloudy morning in Berlin. Just before 8 o'clock, five blue-grey German-made sedans pulled up at the western end of Glienicker Brücke. the steel-trussed bridge that spans the sleepy Havel River between the U.S. zone and Communist territory. A group of 20 American military men and civilians got out and waited. Five minutes later, other cars approached the bridge from the Communist side. Their occupants emerged and stood talking. Finally, two men detached themselves from the opposing groups and walked across the white stripe, in the center of the bridge, that marks...
STREET signs in the lobby of the TIME & LIFE Building on Manhattan's Avenue of the Americas point up the close ties Americans have with severed Berlin. They read: Platz der Luftbrücke (Airlift Place), Clayallee (named for General Lucius D. Clay), Washingtonplatz (for the first U.S. President). The signs, brought from West Berlin, point to an exhibit which opened last week in the TIME & LIFE Reception Center. Americans' heightened interest in Berlin today was evident at once in a flow of 150 to 200 persons visiting the exhibit each hour...
...Earthly Daemon." Paint them he did, with a vehemence and crash of color that soon won him the esteem of fellow painters. He was invited to join Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and others in a group of younger revolutionary artists called die Brücke (the Bridge), who had set up shop in 1905 in an empty Dresden butcher's store. A loner by instinct, he quit them after a year and a half, afraid that togetherness would dilute his grim, self-imposed sense of artistic mission. Similarly, he shunned the trail-blazing Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) circle, although...
...father's insistence, but switched to painting as soon as he got his diploma. In 1905 he and three former fellow students set up a studio in an empty Dresden butcher shop, proclaimed themselves the leaders of a new movement that they called Die Brücke (The Bridge). The movement had only the haziest of programs: it simply wanted to attract "revolutionary and fermenting elements" who would build a kind of bridge into the future...
...members of Die Brücke endlessly read Verlaine, Rimbaud, D'Annunzio and Nietzsche. They drank into the night, took midnight swims with their female models, absorbed everything from the fiery swirls of Van Gogh to the dramatic African masks that were being displayed in the Dresden Zoological and Ethnographical Museum. By 1911, when they decamped to Berlin. Kirchner had developed a boldly distinctive style of his own, and he had begun painting the famed street scenes that were to be his forte (see color...