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Jan de Weryha – Modern Abstract Art in Wood
Parallels with abstract modernism are obvious. Memories are evoked by a tour of the museum-like exhibition rooms in Hamburg-Bergedorf (the so-called de… more
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Some of the trained soldiers were later dropped on the Polish territory as Cichociemni (the "Silent Unseen"). The 2nd Brigade was enforced by the 2nd Rifle Battalion and at the request of Sosabowski… more
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Olga Boznańska – Kraków, Munich, Paris
Olga Helena Karolina h. Nowina Boznańska was born in Kraków on 15. April 1865. Her mother Eugénie Mondant (1832-1892), was a teacher who came from the French… more
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Komierowski, Roman (Roman von Komierowski), 1876-79 member of the 2nd Chamber of the Prussian Landtag, 1876-84, 1887-1903 member of the Reichstag of the German Empire. *15.8.1846 Komierowo near… more
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Chełmoński, Józef, Polish painter, member of the “Munich School”. 1871-74: in Munich. From 1872: student at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. *7.11.1849 Boczki (now Boczki Chełmońskie), †6.4.1914… more
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Introduction
According to the cult song Bochum by the singer Herbert Grönemeyer, the town “deep in the West” is “completely grey from work”, but that has not been the case for a long time now.… more
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In 1980, Kasimir Zgorecki died in northern France, after working for many years as a successful photographer there. He passed on his passion for photography to both his sons Jacques and Alfred. They… more
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“I am a Pole, a Jew, a free artist and a pan-European. In each of these four character traits, I must see Hitlerism as my mortal enemy, I have to fight it with all the means at my disposal as my… more