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Family history of excellence.
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Two Sheffield businessmen whose family name is a byword for excellence in engineering, were presented with commemorative plaques by the President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Andrew Ives.
John and Jonathan Bramah are descendants of Barnsley-born Joseph Bramah. His invention of a ground-breaking press more than 210 years ago led to him being acclaimed the father of modern hydraulics.
The press was built about 1805 and installed in the Tower of London, to be used by map makers working for the Ordnance Survey.
Thanks to former Master ...
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Decline and fall
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...out recipes for the future but decorators who rearranged the past - just like Hans Makart, Vienna's most acclaimed painter of this period. Not only did Makart's grandiloquent portraits and historical scenes, in the style of Rubens, Van...
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VIENNESE GLASS DESIGN 1895-1925.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...for models with which to oppose the pervasive local form of academic historicism, known as the Makart style after its foremost practitioner Hans Makart (1840-1884). In 1897 a group of these young artists broke with the official art academy to...
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WWII veteran had Hitler's art book on bookshelf
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...quot; she wrote in an enthusiastic e-mail to the AP after reviewing scanned photographs of the album. "Hans Makart's 'Pest in Florenz' (Plague in Florence), for example, the first picture of album XIII, Hitler got as a gift...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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BOOKS: The body most beautiful; Male Desire - The Homoerotic in American Art by Jonathan Weinberg, Yale, pounds 25/The Naked Truth, Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka and other scandals by various authors, Prestel, pounds 42.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...contrasts well with the latent violence of much which came later CAPTION(S): Sight, from the series The Five Senses by Hans Makart, 1872-79'. From The Naked Truth; An illustration from Male Desire
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Art of 'Europa' a conquest of Hitler.(SHOW)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...RATING: FOUR STARS CAPTION(S): Adolf Hitler presents Hermann Goering with "The Falconer" (1880), by painter Hans Makart. Hitler bought the painting legitimately from an art dealer. It is now in the Neue Pinakothek in Munich. [NO CREDIT...
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Naked truths of Klimt's Vienna
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...stands for itself.''To make the point, Klimt's redhead is juxtaposed with another unclothed woman painted by Hans Makart, a popular artist in Vienna at the time whose work dared not offend. This allegorical woman, by holding a mirror...
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Arts Guide
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...and 1918. Features more than 100 paintings including portraits by Klimt, Schiele and Gerstl, and interior scenes by Hans Makart. - italy - Florence Museo di Storia della Fotografia Fratelli Alinari, tel: (55) 213-370, open daily. To July...
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Germany Uses Internet To Return Art
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto as well as works by lesser-known Austrians and Germans like Andreas Achenbach and Hans Makart. Hitler wanted to promote his illusions of cultural superiority by boosting local artists. Many of the remaining items...
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Performing the Absolute. Marina Abramovic Organizing the Unfinished Business of Arthur Schopenhauer.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Organization Studies
; ...absolute. This paper illustrates this philosophical position by taking three practical examples which show how the artists Hans Makart, Herman Nitsch and Marina Abramovic -- three famous performance art managers -- go about organizing the supply of...
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AUSTRIA: KUNSTHALLE KREMS INAUGURATES THE EXHIBITION 'THE TRIUMPH OF BEAUTY'
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...forgotten artists, such as Jean Beraud and Henri Gervex in France, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sir Edward Burne-Jones in England or Ilja Repin in Russia may be rediscovered. Austria is represented with the "painting prince" Hans Makart.
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