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...Vladivostok. Besides the U.S., his market - not very large - comprises the German-speaking regions of Switzer land. Sweden and South America. His current list includes Thomas Mann's Lotte in Weimar (The Beloved Returns) and Die vertauschten Köpje (The Transposed Heads) ; Franz Werfel's Der veruntreute Himmel (Embezzled Heaven} ; some verse and a fine line of anti-Nazi pamphlets...
...liberal tycoon, Siemens wanted above all else a democratic Germany cooperating with other democracies. He helped Economist Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht form the Democratic Party of the Weimar Republic, served four years as a member of the Reichstag...
...German refugee who received his hatred of P. R. from the Weimar Republic's list system, under which people voted for parties rather than men as in other forms of P. R., Professor Hermens has spent much of his time since he entered this country fighting proposals for P. R. in New York and other cities...
...Modernist Architect Walter Gropius invited Klee to teach drawing at his famous Bauhaus technical art school in Weimar. In the middle '20s Parisian surrealists hailed him as a prophet. Frenchmen, usually supercilious toward German art, began collecting his infantile drawings. In 1931 Klee went on to be a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy. Meanwhile, U. S. modern-art connoisseurs bought his ectoplasmic scratchings at $750 a canvas...
...1890s, when Pablo Picasso was a pup, a Schleswig-German artist named Emil Nolde began experimenting. He distorted forms, rearranged figures, changed colors-innovations with which Picasso was later credited by the uninformed. Artist Nolde, father of German "Expressionism," lived through World War I, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich. When in 1937 the Nazis held a finger-pointing exhibit of "Degenerate Art" in Munich, Nolde was naturally included...