Word: weltschmerz
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...left to warm their adjectives over, German critics pounced on newcomer Koerner. Those who supposed that his work showed the trend of U.S. art proudly concluded that painting in the U.S. had gone German. Koerner's painting did have the heaviness, the harsh humor and the all-pervading weltschmerz which characterized German expressionism in the 1920s. Along with My Parents, the show's strongest painting was The Prophet (see cut), which reminded critics of Expressionist Grosz and also of Koerner's favorite Old Master, Peter Bruegel. (Of his bony, monkey-like Prophet, Koerner said that he "might...
...appreciate . . . being born a German." A chronically happy German, Felix lacked any touch of Weltschmerz. In all his 38 carefree years, a political thought apparently never entered his head. He was born into a wealthy family, composed 60 pieces before he was eleven, was famed throughout Europe before he was 20. He became a musical Marco Polo who brought back from Scotland a Scotch Symphony, from the Hebrides Fingal's Cave, from Italy an Italian Symphony. His merits as a composer have been argued for a century. If his capricious music was not always profound, his mastery of technique...
Expressionists, Abstractionists. The work of Kootz's own modern favorites is derived from the "expressionists [who] use the psychology of color ... to express a moody, mystic Weltschmerz." He singles out Abraham Rattner, Walter Quirt, Paul Burlin. Of Rattner (see cut), he remarks...
...album of his is, of course, the "Tristan" excerpt. It's that wonderful scene where Tristan, knowing he is going to die, invites Isolde to follow him into "dasdunkel nacht'ge Land, daraus die Mutter einst mich sandt," and Melchior renders it with the perfect shade of dusky "Weltschmerz...
...prettily done up little thing, printed by The Star Co., of Boston, who have rather charmingly combined a 22-point Weltschmerz Italic on the even pages with a Bodoni Double-face on the odd pages. This is a typographical innovation that may meet with a certain amount of opinionated disapproval at first as it necessitates going through the book twice. We recommend as a solution reading it through an ordinary stereoscope, which can be purchased at your local novelty store if you don't happen to have one lying about the house. This will make the copy thoroughly legible...