Paul Klee News
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North Germans tend to stereotype Bavarians as flamboyant -- even flashy. Think of all those blingy baroque churches stuffed with cherubs and gilt.
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German paintings are rare birds in French museums.
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A German government panel said a museum in Cologne should return a portrait by Oskar Kokoschka valued at 3 million euros ($3.9 million) to the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim, a Jewish art dealer persecuted by the Nazis.
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The heir of a prominent Jewish art dealer who fled Adolf Hitler’s Germany urged the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to relinquish paintings by Paul Klee and Juan Gris that he says were lost due to Nazi persecution.
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The Israel Museum in Jerusalem restituted a drawing by Paul Klee to the heir of a Jewish telephone maker who fled the Nazis in 1937.
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Christian Ude , the mayor of Munich, rejected a German government panel’s offer to examine a claim by the heirs of the pre-World-War-II owner for a painting by Paul Klee that was stolen by the Nazis.
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In one series of drawings we can watch a cow transform -- almost cinematically -- from recognizable bovine into a purely abstract construction of lines and rectangular planes. Distilled into the essential forms and dynamics of its architecture, the animal completely disappears.
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Nicolas Berggruen can’t sit still.
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The air of perversion, with its prostitutes, piggish industrialists, tortured souls and general depravity, is why the German Expressionist show at Neue Galerie is so appealing.
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Edwardian opulence was epitomized by a luxurious ostrich-feather fan presented to Mrs. James de Rothschild on her 1913 marriage into the banking dynasty.
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