Hints and tips:
...First, it could provide an excuse for an even harder crackdown on Putin’s domestic critics, in much the way that the murder of Sergei Kirov in 1934 paved the way for Joseph Stalin’s terror....
...“If I hadn’t gone to the castles of Ludwig II in Bavaria when I was eight — and I lived and still live in Paris in a district built by Haussmann — maybe some things would have been different.”...
...Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose philosophical obsessions had a distinctly aesthetic character, was a uniform man, too....
...It was here that a dedicated art teacher taught him to engage with art on a more philosophical level through the conceptual works of Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Beuys....
...The only portrait of Beethoven known to have been done from life was painted by court artist Joseph Karl Stieler in around 1818-20....
...The four composers — Joseph Wölfl, Muzio Clementi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Jan Ladislav Dussek — lived interwoven lives....
...This idea of unity forged under the branches is also there in the writings of 19th-century Romantics such as Ludwig Tieck and Joseph von Eichendorff, and is all the more remarkable for existing in a land...
...“Around 550,000 German companies — or about one in six — risk becoming a zombie firm,” said Patrik-Ludwig Hantzsch, head of economic research at Creditreform, a business data company....
...In the 18th century, Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II pioneered an influential rationalist fusion of Enlightenment rule and centralised governance....
Martha Argerich partners with Seiji Ozawa and the Mito Chamber Orchestra; Simon Rattle makes rarely heard items rub shoulders with old favourites
...In 1966, Ludwig Erhard’s government fell, and Kiesinger became chancellor. He had joined the Nazi party in 1933, the only future West German chancellor to have done so....
...Herda and her co-curator Joseph Grima were not builders; they came from the world of non-profits, exhibitions and publications, of thinking about architecture....
...Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House (1951) was the high point....
...This applies most of all to Joseph Calleja, who as Faust hits his high notes with formidable vigour but tends to keep his feet rooted firmly to the boards....
...The curators, Sarah Herda and Joseph Grima, suggest that despite the full-sized houses the show is intended to embrace forms of practice beyond construction — that research, drawing, filmmaking, installation...
The 68-year-old pianist still has a formidable technical armoury
Performances with a fortepiano transport the listener to the aristocratic salons of the classical era
...and his conjuring up of endlessly fresh harmonic possibilities struck some not as the start of something, but as the end of a line that began in the early 18th century with the father of the symphony, Joseph...
...Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier all worked there....
...Then came a surprise, in 1986, when Joseph Beuys, high priest of the avant-garde, announced: “I should like to thank my teacher Wilhelm Lehmbruck....
...In 1899 the enlightened Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig set up an artists’ colony on the Mathildenhöhe heights about 1km from the town centre....
...This is the definitive book on the great architect of modernism, Mr Minimal himself, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe....
...Best overall was Joseph Calleja, singing the tenor part with uncommon grace, though the subdued singing of bass Ferruccio Furlanetto also hit an affectingly sorrowful tone at times....
...Another missive on the US recovery from the SocGen bear-king Albert Edwards and, uh-oh, paging Ludwig Wittgenstein: Words fail me What’s up Albert?...
...Incredibly, The Periodic Table was turned down by no fewer than 27 publishers in Britain before it was finally brought out by Michael Joseph Ltd in 1985....
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