Minamata disease
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Minamata disease Poisoning by organic mercury compounds, named after Minamata Bay in Japan, where fish contained high levels of organic mercury compounds after waste water from mercury processing was passed into the estuary (between 1953–6).
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Adding to the German legacy A handsome exhibit shows off art museum's recent purchases
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/18/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...figurines originally contributed by Von Schleinitz and brings romantic...are Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Moritz von Schwind, Anselm Feuerbach and Johann...famous painting in Dusseldorf. Moritz von Schwind, who decorated the opera in Vienna...
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First American Touring Exhibition of Important German Drawings Comes
Newspaper article from: Italian Voice, The; 5/7/1998; 700+ words
; ...and preeminent writer and artist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, architectural studies by Karl Friedrich...Philipp Otto Runge, Julius Schnorr can Carolsfeld, Moritz von Schwind, Johann Georg von Dills, and Adolph Menzel. To see The Frick Collection...
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19th-century German art: the scarcity of top-quality paintings by famous names is driving collectors to explore new areas of this buoyant market.(COLLECTORS' FOCUS)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...regretfully: 'Up to now, never.' Sotheby's also achieved world-record prices for Moritz von Schwind, Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, Adolph von Menzel and Wilhelm List. It was striking that Bernheimer placed a strong emphasis on the...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/8/1994; 541 words
; ...Queen of Scots, beheaded 1587; Giuseppe Torelli, composer, 1709; Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, 1725; Moritz von Schwind, painter, 1871; David Friedrich Strauss, philosopher, theologian and biographer, 1874; Robert Michael Ballantyne...
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Castle in the sky; Wartburg fortress gives a bird's-eye view of Eisenach; Next week
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 12/7/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Sebastian Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and multitudes of others have...chandeliers and a famous painting by Moritz von Schwind commemorating the legendary Sangerkrieg...well-known minstrels as Wolfram von Eschenbach and Walther von der Vogelweide...
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Schubert at 200. (Franz Schubert's 200th birth anniversary)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...A famous yet apocryphal anecdote told by Josef von Spaun - that Schubert composed "Erlkonig" in...fantasy both bland and insidious. The poet Franz von Schober, the painter Moritz von Schwind, and the singer Vogl, carefree bohemians, encircle...
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Letter from Dublin.(Irish Art & Antiques Feature)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...years. Artists include Carl Blechen, Caspar David Friedrich (see illustration), Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Moritz von Schwind. Last of this autumn's displays at the National Gallery, but not at all least is an exhibition that highlights...
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The Dallas Morning News Scott Cantrell column: FWSO buzzes Mahler's Symphony No. 1 triumphantly.(Column)
Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX); 8/24/2007; 700+ words
; ...twisted into a weird, minor-mode funeral march. Its inspiration was apparently a woodcut by Schubert's friend Moritz von Schwind, portraying animals carrying a dead hunter in a solemn procession. The tune is introduced with the strangely adenoidal...
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Moritz von Schwind
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Moritz von Schwind , 1804-71, Austrian historical painter and illustrator of the romantic...Best known for the imagination and strength of his draftsmanship, Schwind created a gay world of dream figures. This air of fantasy was not fully...
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Schwind, Moritz von
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Schwind, Moritz von ( b Vienna, 21 Jan. 1804; d Niederp...Cornelius at the Munich Academy (where Schwind himself became a professor in 1846...Munich periodical. In his young days Schwind, who was an accomplished violinist...
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Richter, Ludwig
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...illustrator. Richter is usually regarded as one of the leading figures of late Romanticism in Germany, alongside Moritz von Schwind , but his work has a modest, intimate quality that also relates it to Biedermeier . He spent most of his career...
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Biedermeier
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...period was for cheerful and detailed landscapes, historical subjects, and genre scenes. Artists of the era include Moritz von Schwind , Karl Spitzweg , Franz Krüger, and Ferdinand Waldmüller. Bibliography: See studies by G. Hemmelheber...
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