Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 108

An Expressionist sampler CHOOSE ONE OF 3 GREAT CHOICES NOW ON ARRIVAL and intimacy before she died in 1907 at the age of 31 In Munich Franz Marc and his friend Vasily Kandinsky published an almanac "Blaue Reiter" in 1912 which announced their new art also expressive and violent and highly-charged cows were yellow his horses blue his landscapes unforgettable After a time the movements joined and moved to Berlin and artists like George Grosz and Kirchner began to chronicle the topsyturvy erotic scenes on the city streets And then World War I began Many in Germany saw it aa a chance to do away with the old corrupt society and begin again Marc wrote to Kandinsky "I am not angry about the war but from deepest heart I am grateful I see the war aa the most healthy albeit dreadful means to our goals 1 it will cleanse Marc enlisted and was killed at Verdun Others outlived the war but like the world in which they lived were ineparably scarred by it and their art changed Through 140 paintings 70 watercolors nd 120 of the prints for which the Expressionists are so famous the Guggenheim show traces the development of the artists from 1905 through the post-war period In 1918 Germany lost the war the Kaiser abdicated and amidst starvation despair and revolution the ill-starred Weimar Republic began Grosr vision of the new Germany has come to stand for that society He like other painters of Weimar grew out of those early experiments in Expressionism The 18 artists in the Guggenheim exhibit represent that movement and those years with some puzzling lapses Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt are missing because according to the Guggenheim they were Austrian not German However OBkar Kokoschka was Austrian too and he is there And Kandinsky was Russian Strangest of all however is to include graphics by the sculptor Ernst Barlach when there is nothing at all by the equally important sculptor Lehmbruck whose work caused rioting in Duisburg The Guggenheim has bitten off a great deal with this exhibit Despite funding by the Republic of Germany Philip Morris and the National Endowment for the Arts and the best help of experts and collections everywhere it ia almost impossible to give a complete overview of a subject as vast as German Expressionism The huge show is a welcome hors oeuvre Continued While parliamentary democracy was sweeping the rest of Europe Reichstag was a bad joke Professional soldiers were the heroes of the day These was much that waa rotten in German Bociety and a great deal of cynicism under the pretended gentility Looking back in 1920 after the Empire had fallen the German observer Alfred Dublin remembered: "The growing atrophy of the bourgeoisie which became divided into profiteers lickspittles the apathgtic and the discontented The brooding atmosphere of this empire of money-grubbers in which from time to time there sounded the rattling of sabres or the music of waltzes This monstrousness which sucked in even the working masses" In the moors of Dachau in the South in forests of Worpsweder in the North in Dresden and in Munich a number of artists independently came to the conclusion that a broom was needed that would sweep Germany and the world clean and that broom was a new kind of art They were influenced by the French post-impressionists by Van Gogh Edvard Munch James Ensor and the Fauves but in a way that was very much their own and very German As far bgck as Lucas Cranach Albrecht Diirer' and Matthias Grunewald German art had concerned itself not with the way things looked but the way they felt The way they felt was often as brutal and aa terrifying as a fairy tale There is a primal scream that runs through the best of German art It is seldom easy or gracious The Expressionists who wanted to throw back the velvet drapes and pull down the lace curtains of middle class Germany first came to public attention in 1906 when a group that called itself "Die the held its first exhibition in Dresden The founding members of the group were four architectural stii-dents-turned-painters: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Fritz Bleyl Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-RottlufF They were interested in woodcuts and African art and aa Kirchner wrote the need "to gain elbow room and freedom of life against the well-established older forces" They were soon joined by others including for a brief time Emil Nolde Meanwhile throughout Germany other painters were coming to some of the same conclusions In the North Paula Moderaohn-Becker Sinted herself women nursing and friends the poet Rainer Maria Rilke with urgency -OR- WEDGWOOD LUNCHEON BUFFET SERVED 11 :30 AM 4:30 PM Day Tou Includas: One of the abova choices Round trip transportation tram convenient locations to Resorts Convenient access to Casino Boi of San Water Tatty NOW SEVEN DAYS A WEEK ONLY 1 295 KLan ao chocts pour ocianaaa FOR INFORMATION CALL HARRAN TRANSPORTATION CO INC (212) 343-6060 OR (516) 483-7900 Lim-tce wating avaiiatota Tbura available to ptraona II yaara and otter Regular departures from the following locations MNTAGta OCR VILLI CENTRE OLD WESTSUR nun stream lOrg kacn wir CEOARNURST LAWRENCE QUEKNS MUM FlUSMNG uttikwci 300CUSTM forest mils RE 50 PAM if BARDENS FRESH NEASOttS GIG RE MRi MSUN3UINM bcaaici STOSSfT GRE4T NEC! 9NG KCN KACN iGORthT WISt6uRt TTT1T FT SHORT BUIS MS KHtgr jommhumt jg AMMf SAMCaorT in nr KEITH'S MW The first at 8 PM Thursday is nearly sold out so a second has been scheduled for 8 PM Friday both performed by Orchestra of Our Time Tickets are $5 (students S3) at the Museum Bookstore or by mail Guggenheim Museum 89th Street and Fifth Avenue Manhattan or call (212) 860-1356 PAMELA ROSS PIANIST Works by Bach Ravel ana Chopin Special Guest: Ludwig von Beethoven Saturday November 22 1980 2 PJL Camegia Recital 154 57 SL Tickota Sr citzans and students matin cawna pjg jWU C0ASTjj) "Darlwgs tl Harnessing a white elephant "This been around for a long said Mayor Koch at the dedication of the new home for New York Department of Cultural Affairs its Convention and Visitors Bureau and the National Endowment for the regional headquarters "I never thought it was very beautiful but now I The building at 2 Columbus Circle has had a checkered career ever since Huntington Hartford commissioned architect Edward Durell Stone to design it in mi CLAYOuaGH UBTIOH in mm men rUUIVIEW NOT THE SIZE K5F THAT mniin pwiwwiwn IX BBIOIWS 1957 It started out as a gallery in 1964 That folded within a few years Then Fairleigh Dickinson University took it over and under the direction of Mario Amaya it became a lively if controversial cultural center But mortgage payments became too much and that too folded in 1975 after which the building became a white elephant Gulf Western Industries bought it in 1977 and now through its foundation the company has made a gift of the building to the city 16Part II NEWSDAY SUNDAY NOVEMBER 16 C0MMACK MOTOR INN "The Im There AT Italian patriotic and culture New York University has formed a Center for Contemporary Italian Culture and hired Sandro Demini a former Rome arts administrator to head it The center will sponsor appearances by filmmakers scientists actors painters playwrights musicians and lecturers from Italy and coordinate their appearance in theaters auditoriums and galleries in the area The first event will be a performance by "I Giullari di Players in the of Italian folk music dance and theater next Sunday in the University Theater Education Building 35 4th St Manhattan For informationcali (212) 598-7867 One of six known copies of Francis Scott first corrected sheet music for "The Star-Spangled will be sold at Phillips Auctioneers 525 72nd St at 1 PM Dee 3 along with a 17th Century atlas The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton will be showing Part I of its massive Long Island art exhibit next summer and it needs help Anyone with information or knowledge about where works can be located from the period 1865-1914 is invited to write museum director Ronald Pisano 25 Lane Southampton NY 11968 mm TJSSfSar uwwnwnm MRI HI lira law law UhR-NttM Color AM FM uiHSSSS fUM RDBITIliraiBlIK ThcDay MRRRweee ew jUOTEW Time I Sm lasers BLAST IBS Awli Dwr-Stw PnW 0rtw-to WMm But CatSWatw AiWWii "SwcM" ta Fra SIM Pka To Frw KMw kdwi The musle of Expressionism Music was part of German Expressionism as well as painting Arnold Schoenberg the master of atonality painted and showed with the young German painters of the movement and wrote music that they appreciated and understood The Guggenheim Museum will be giving two performances of "Pierrot ORDINARY -TO1" UWBENCE inai dm 2231 Jencho Turnpike Commack LI NY (516) 499-3060 WBHWI nnwLPmTHEmANO.