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...rush toward death," Motherwell says; but the trip obviously has its pleasures. Now married to his third wife, Painter Helen Frankenthaler, Motherwell commands top prices ($25,000-$30,000) for his large oils, is a gourmet who owns a Manhattan townhouse, vacations in Venice and Greece. And even in his large-scale (7 ft. by 17 ft.) treatment of such serious subjects as Dublin's Easter Rebellion, the black bars of the Elegies now seem to have opened and the middle field made gay with banner forms. For his next commission, a mural in the Gropius-designed John Fitzgerald...
...French surrealists who had been driven by Hitler to take refuge in the U.S. Motherwell's scholarship and knowledge of French poetry earned the surrealists' admiration; his work attracted Patroness Peggy Guggenheim, then married to Top Surrealist Max Ernst. She promptly proceeded to make him the youngest painter in her stable, which included Pollock, William Baziotes and Clyfford Still...
...morning of his death on Sept. 6, 1949, he was asked to contribute to an article about himself, and wrote his own epitaph: "If I had not been a painter, then I would have wanted to be a painter." It was a title that few today would deny...
Poor Plumbing. Today Horst Antes is well on the way to becoming Karlsruhe's most illustrious alumnus. As a student he captured the Hannover Grand Prix, at 24 had his first one-man show, and today, at 29, he is considered Germany's most powerful postwar painter (see color), a natural link in and continuator of the great tradition of German expressionism. Outwardly at least, his impetuosity has somewhat subsided. The neighbors in his six-story walkup on a truck-choked thoroughfare in Karlsruhe are often treated to blasts of rock 'n' roll he plays...
...bestseller, The Tin Drum. As Antes seeks to show life from a different perspective, so Grass's Oskar, a moral hunchback who reaches his third year and refuses to grow any more, sees the world from chair level. There are striking parallels, too, between writer and painter. Both were born in the decade that spawned Nazism, both learned their ABCs in Hitler schools, both burst on the cultural scene in 1959 to become symbols of Germany's postwar conscience. Both, too, have been remarkably productive, Grass with nine published works, Antes with an astonishing 14 one-man shows...