European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Calendar Austria International Riding and jumping july Lake Zell am july costumes and fireworks will be summer july orchestral Church music and soloists Belgium witches july Denmark Hans Christian Andersen july this years open air performance in Funken Village will be the emperors new fish auction for july the auctions Are scheduled every wednesday in one of Europe largest auction Garfish july Harbour july fairytale july France International Art and fashion Paris american july this Competition is sponsored by the English language school of Fine arts and 9 Rue Des thursdays in old july medieval july Beer july Mountain july traditional july costume Bull Cor Noailles july Annes Day Sainteanne july Germany Kramerer and Kurtzwell Market of the Middle july Erbach Meadow july festival of the july the celebrations will include a Dinghy International Kite festival and july great Britain festival of Alexandra july four five ceremonial archways and 10 floats will Grace the palaces 25 acres of Parkland during the world july this is a competitive showcase for 24 sports not included in the olympic included Are Speed roller net Ball and military july massed military including the Royal marines and the brigade of Gurkas free fall parachuting motor Cycle displays and the largest display on the South coast Are part of the events staged at fort Connaught Hungary greeting the Spring Folk dance july West hungarian Folk dancers july National Gypsy ensembles july Italy Luxembourg wine festival in the cooperative july 2nd folklore festival for july fireworks in the july wine festival at place end the Netherlands sail Amsterdam More than tall and no Sotall sailing vessels from 31 countries have been invited to the week of nautical entertainment from pirate mock sea Battles and water there will be Harbor cafes with seafood the grand Parade through the North sea canal to Amsterdam Harbor kicks off the Portugal sea Sweden Baltic july seven countries around the Baltic sea have Ballad circus Market Switzerland 28th shepherds 8th Engadine surf on the Yugoslavia fete of Bagnara i july 25th Draga Cevo the event includes competitions of music and folklore groups As Well As exhibitions of gallery Austria Bregenz the roman july the gods and Kunstler Haus palais thurn und july 22 the exhibitions Are in conjunction with the Bregenzer Denmark Copenhagen National association of danish artists july Finland Helsinki Congress Center until july the exhibition has appeared in Japan and Germany Frankfurt special German film until july great Britain Edinburgh rhythm and dance paintings and drawings by Fergusson the scottish arts july 1985april Birmingham a City at War Birmingham Birmingham museum and Art until end Sweden Bengt fors handicraft july Switzerland Basel the Zize Hausen figures their picture of the historical until july 12 stripes Magazine jury 1985 exhibit explores terror of War by Raf casert associated press Otto Dix trusted his eyes and painted world War the Weimar Republic and nazi Germany in enough harrowing detail to earn the scorn of the bourgeoisie and the a stunning covering All aspects of one of the greatest German painters of the 20th is on display at the Brussels palais de beaux arts until the end of it comprises 300 including 86 the show has drawn critical although initial attendance was Small Only visitors in the week after the june 14 but museum officials said crowds Are expected to pick up during the summer the Brussels based de Standard said the show underscored the importance of German literary and visual Art during the first two decades of this the Dix retrospective shows images of exasperation and bitterness about a society that produced the War to end All it other leading newspapers and magazines described the works As who died in 1969 at age came to the attention of the belgian Public during a 1980 exhibit of his War etchings at the Goethe a West German cultural Center in the interest led officials to arrange a comprehensive the works were assembled from German and the War etchings loaned by the Otto Dix stif Tung in Dix Drew inspiration from fighting in flemish and russian trenches during world War from observing the Middle classes during the unstable years leading to hitlers Rise and from the third Reichs final these extreme experiences moved him to paint works of exaggerated realism that Center on images of hollow eyed arrogant Lustful sailors and tawdry what my works Are Good i dont but i create them because i know that the Way it and no Dix wrote in 30 years after Hitler banned his works because they too explicitly showed wars Dix said he painted because he trusted his even if that meant trouble with the already an accomplished artist of impressionist Dix volunteered for the trenches of the great Back at the Dresden Art Academy after the War he made sketches and etchings of the horrors he had witnessed they culminated in the 1924 War considered his Dixs etchings show vivid details of decaying Fields strewn with rape Worms sucking at a mad soldiers a these scenes he considered still the ruins were continuously part of my dreams for but painting them did not liberate he Sard years although disgusted by the Dix remained apolitical and his criticism of so prevalent in his is personal and not politically Dix painted deformed War veterans roaming through German cities during the Weimar Germany unstable years before hitlers these and his scenes of squalid brothels in which ugliness is stressed to depict social made him unpopular with the German immediately after hitlers Rise to Dix was fired from the Dresden Academy and barred from exhibiting his which were branded he moved to Bavaria near Lake where he concentrated on landscape Little of this work is on although his works received some recognition during the last decade of his most of his Fame came