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...Carl Wilhelm Naundorff The German clockmaker and manufacturer of munitions (he dubbed them "Bourbon bombs") declared in 1833 that he was Charles Louis, son of Louis XVI, thought to have died in prison following the French Revolution. Undeterred by the fact that the dauphin's name had actually been Louis Charles, Naundorff attracted followers and even penned a royal memoir detailing his escape from captivity hidden in the coffin of a dead child...
Polemics are the last thing Journey's End is interested in. The officers holed up in this dimly lit den on the eve of a major German offensive in March 1918 don't question the war or even talk much about it. They don't make speeches about lost comrades or pine for sweethearts back home whom they may never see again. They just eat and sleep, relieve one another on guard duty and complain about the meat cutlets. They do their duty, simply because there's nothing else...
DIED. Lothar-Guenther Buchheim, 89, who, as a World War II reporter for the German navy, dutifully wrote pieces of wartime propaganda, then turned his experiences into a 1973 antiwar book, Das Boot (The Boat), which profoundly moved Germans and became a global best seller and a 1981 film; in Berlin...
DIED. Heinz Berggruen, 93, German Jewish art collector turned unofficial diplomat; outside Paris. The Berlin-born Berggruen, who specialized in the works of 20th century artists, such as Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and his good friend Pablo Picasso, fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. and later established an esteemed gallery in postwar Paris. In the mid-1990s he famously moved his formidable collection to Berlin. Hailed for the conciliatory gesture by a once exiled Jew, he helped reinvigorate Germany's collection of modern art, earlier dismissed as degenerate by Hitler...
...personally assembled.It is intention, and not medium, that separates Beuys from the Fluxus camp. This separation is evident immediately upon entering the “Multiple Strategies” exhibit. There is a photograph of Joseph Beuys, beside which hangs a work of his simply saying in bold, German print: “The Silence of Marcel Duchamp is Overrated.” Although Beuys employed the same ordinary materials for his art as the Fluxus artists and Duchamp, he held fast to the idea that art does, in fact, exist for spiritual rejuvenation, and not just wild experimentation.The strategy...