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Salzburg (July 24-Aug. 30) continues to concentrate on its very own Mozart, but its big news this year is the world premiere of German Composer Werner Egk's opera Irish Legend. Other items: new sets for Mozart's Magic Flute by brilliant Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, star-led concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic...
...swift rise Hultberg can thank first a considerable talent, and second the fading of yesterday's fashion. That fashion was for "abstract-expressionist" pictures, which recoiled from perspective and recognizable three-dimensional shapes, instead relied purely on vast, flat swirls and puddlings of paint, paint, paint. Painter Hultberg, who once studied with two leaders of the school, Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, was among the first to rebel against it. While the fad was still at its height, he walked Manhattan's 57th Street with his canvases under his arm, vainly trying to interest the dealers...
Died. Karl Hofer. 76. director of West Berlin's Academy of Art and dean of German expressionist painters, famed for his rigid studies of lonely, slab-faced men and women (TIME, Aug. 18, 1952); of a stroke; in Berlin. Old Rebel Hofer was damned by the Nazis as "degenerate" after his widely praised oil. The Wind, won the Carnegie International jury's $1,000 first prize in 1938. He continued to paint in secret, lost some 300 paintings in an Allied bombing raid in 1943, but set doggedly to work at war's end to reproduce them...
...pavilion, which the Museum of Modern Art bought this year from the Grand Central Art Galleries, offered the works of only two painters-Social Realist Ben Shahn and Abstract-Expressionist Willem De Kooning. A two-man affair by deliberate museum decision, it made for a forceful though far from representative showing. Shahn, whose art had its roots in proletarian fury and has now become fashionable, topped the list of lesser prizewinners with an $800 award. Many exhibitors, notably those of the Iron Curtain countries, seemed stifled by their messages. Shahn, on the contrary, is lost without one. Shahn...
...pictures-a snarl of black on a red canvas and a few black splashes on a white canvas-show that when the shouter lowers his voice, he also lowers his standards; they are simply chic. But as a whole the exhibition proves that Mathieu is as powerful an abstract expressionist as Manhattan's own Willem de Kooning...