Word: reiterate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...violent deaths. When last March Hitler's sister, Paula Wolf, casually mentioned to a German reporter that she had recently visited with "perhaps the only woman my brother ever loved," Günter Peis's news instincts were understandably aroused. The woman turned out to be Maria Reiter, blonde, buxom and 49, now living quietly in a Munich suburb. Reluctant at first, Maria finally gave Peis the long-kept secret of her uneven romance with Hitler from 1926 into the '305. As Peis reported it in the German weekly, Der Stern, and in the London Sunday Pictorial...
...LORA D. REITER...
Sensing the Mystic. Religion of a far less earthbound frame was also a prime concern of Germany's Blane Reiter (Blue Rider) group centered at Munich, which strove for what Franz Marc called "sensing the underlying mystical design of the visible world." But what looked like a new dawn for European art quickly clouded with the rumors of war. Wassily Kandinsky began introducing cannons into his abstractions. Paul Klee's expressions of his subconscious began to reflect fear. Klee's Blue Rider painting companion, bean-pole-tall August Macke, painted his somber Farewell, a square filled with...
...Horses. As Kandinsky developed from his Fauve to his abstract period, conservatives in his group rebelled. Kandinsky, Gabriele, Marc and Kubin walked out on them, soon to be joined by Jawlensky, Campendonck, Klee and Composer Arnold Schoenberg, who at the time fancied himself a painter. They formed der Blaue Reiter group. The name was thought up by Kandinsky and Marc over a cup of coffee. "We both loved blue," Kandinsky later recalled. "Marc loved horses, I loved riders. So the name came naturally...
...period of 1905 to 1935 was one of great fluorescence in German art. It saw the formation of three extremely influential bands of artists: "Die Bruecke," creators of a monumental expressionistic style, "Die Blaue Reiter," who made bold experiments in color and form, one of whose members painted the first "abstract" picture, and finally, the "Bauhaus Painters," who found a creative center for their work in a design institute that attempted to "unite the arts under the leadership of architecture to create the building of the future...