Word: nuremberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fascists were victorious in Spain, and would remain so entrenched for fully 40 years. Hitler's Nuremberg laws ruled in Germany as he prepared for World War II. Mussolini made the trains run on time, but did little else that can be praised in the hindsight history affords...
When Albrecht Durer, Nuremberg's best-known artist, saw a collection of pre- Columbian gold that had been brought from the New World in the early 16th century, he marveled at "the subtle Ingenia of men in foreign lands." This show gives Americans a good opportunity to return the compliment. Nuremberg was one of the great entrepreneurial centers of the late Middle Ages: innovative in production, much concerned with quality control, widely specialized, adventurous, rich and proud. Its burghers and nobles demanded art to match. The curators of this show have not stinted on what one might call...
...world's tender details and horror at its resilient otherness. In Durer as in no other artist one sees the moralized universe of the Middle Ages retreating before the scientific one of the Renaissance, not giving ground gracefully but fighting every inch of the way. What the Nuremberg show offers is virtually a self-contained retrospective of his prints--famous ones like Melencolia I or Knight, Death and Devil, less | commonly seen images such as his suites of woodcuts illustrating the life of the Virgin--fleshed out with a selection of paintings and drawings. Anywhere else, this would...
Stoss was without question the greatest German sculptor of the Renaissance. His life carried Nuremberg sculpture out of the Gothic into the future, for it was extremely long: he was born before 1450, perhaps as early as 1438, and died in 1533. He was said to have been arrogant, prickly and a freethinker, but an exceptional teacher; his artistic disciples in Nuremberg were many. His relations with the powers that were do not seem to have been easy. In 1477 he renounced his Nuremberg citizenship and departed for Cracow, in Poland, where he worked for nearly 20 years...
...surrounds and turn into a Nostradamus-like prophecy of 20th century constructed sculpture. These planes, screwing around the axes of arm and body, are given a momentum and self-sufficiency unique in the history of wood carving. Stoss's work, which can rarely be seen in quantity outside Nuremberg, is the revelation of this show, and nobody interested in the unfolding possibilities of sculpture should miss...