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Discovery of the month
Mary Wigman, dancer, wrote to Virginia over a period of four years as Virginia was attempting to help her regain her standing with the American press.
Virginia met Mary wigman while she was photographing, as a freelance photographer, Mary and other dancers at the Montreux , Switzerland International Dance Congress May-Aug 1952.
Here are sample letters from between Mary Wigman and Virginia
For more see the Mary Wigman et al page in the Archive
Here are photos of the dancers
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Worldwide Exhibits on Expressionist & Post-War German Artists **David Tunick, Inc. presents“MUNCH & GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM”
In association with GALERIE THOMAS, Munich, May 6 – May 20, 2013
David Tunick, Inc.19 East 66th Street 4th floor New York 212 570-0090
**Sculpture from the Düsseldorf Art Academy on view at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: Since 1945, sculptors who have taught or studied at the renowned Düsseldorf Art Academy have been responsible for a series of decisive and influential artistic impulses. Professors such as Ewald Mataré, Erwin Heerich, Joseph Beuys, Klaus Rinke, Irmin Kamp, Fritz Schwegler, Rosemarie Trockel, Hubert Kiecol, Katharina Fritsch, and Rita McBride. On view until July 28, 2013
**Divided/Undivided: Art in Germany 1945 to 2010 on view at Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden..In August 2011, the construction of the Berlin Wall – symbol of the separation of the two former existing German states – had its 50th anniversary. As a follow-up to this event, the Galerie Neue Meister shows German-German art from the post-war period until the present on a large scale and primarily from its own holdings.While in the West an abstract vocabulary prevailed, in the East realistic depiction dominated. Includes work of Karl Otto Götz. On view until August 25, 2013
***NEWS:(CLEVELAND, OH.- The Cleveland Museum of Art recently purchased an oil painting by Max Beckmann,“The acquisition of the Beckmann marks the successful conclusion of a decade-long hunt for a major work by the artist and adds a fascinating and challenging picture to the museum’s holdings of modern European art,” stated C. Griffith Mann, Ph.D, the museum’s deputy director and chief curator.
**NEWS:(MAY7, 2013) Georg Baselitz's Villa Raided in German Tax Evasion Investigation. The German state of Rhineland-Palatinate has targeted Georg Baselitz as part of a widespread investigation into suspected tax evasion using Swiss bank account
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