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Paps ( Dr Waldemar Rusche) (1882–1965). Germany's most famous naive painter, born at Naumburg. An internationally distinguished ophthalmologist, he was head of the eye clinic in the hospital of St Josef Stift in Bremen and began to paint after retiring at the age of 70. His subjects... Read more
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Tool Tool
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Porgy and Bess Porgy and Bess
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Johann Reinhold Forster Johann Reinhold Forster
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James Barry British physician James Barry (c. 1795–1865) was a distinguished army surgeon, but achieved that professional rank by disguising herself as a man. She maintained the ruse from 1809, the year she entered medical school in Edinburgh, until the moments following her death, when a... Read more

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