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...British had issued a housing eviction order to make room for a new Military Government Headquarters. Hamburgers dispatched a delegation of six women to see Hamburg's dignified Oberbürgermeister Rudolf Hieronymus Petersen, and plead with him to intervene with British authorities...
...Author. Slight, courtly Charles de Tolnay got his appointment to the Institute in 1939. He left France with his wife on the day of French mobilization. His library-a fine one-had preceded him. Behind him was a European career marked by outstanding monographs on Breugel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch, the brothers van Eyck, and brilliant lectures at the Sorbonne...
Stiffly formal and preponderantly religious, they showed demure madonnas suckling solemn-faced infants, martyrs suffering horrible tortures with quiet dignity, earnest, humorless burghers and princes and their doll-faced wives. Single exception to the prevailing solemnity was a grimly humorous allegory by Painter Hieronymus Bosch (see cut), showing with peasant grotesqueness and a premonition of surrealism the hag-ridden death of an irresolute miser...
Sculptor Smith's medals could be pigeonholed as surrealist, but so could some works from which they were descended: Gothic decoration, the imagery of Artist (The) William Blake (no kin to pseudonymous Author Blake), the Caprichos of Goya, the dream pictures of 15th-Century Artist Hieronymus Bosch. The Smith works were as full of symbolism as the Freudian moon is of green cheese. Of Elements Which Cause Prostitution Mr.Smith explained: "The land is cushioned -the bowl has the sponge-the fern has futility-the anchor of hearts is ashore-the vulture disembowels. Salvarsan needles to the shamefully stricken...
...biggest collection of Dutch art Grand Rapids had ever seen. With eleven top-flight portraits by Rembrandt and Frans Hals as its central attraction, the exhibition (valued at some $2,000,000) covered 500 years of finely-turned painting, from the squirming, mystical fantasies of 15th-Century Hieronymus Bosch to the geometric designs of 20th-century Piet Mondrian. What made Grand Rapids Dutch almost as proud: the name of practically every artist in the show could also be found in the Grand Rapids telephone directory...