European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Two visitors and Quot Dawn in the mountains Quot by Caspar David Friedrich form their own work of Art. A amps Ken George soviet Art museum sends works to the West a viewer examines a painting by Franz Werner von Tamm painted in 1690. A amps Ken George by de Reavis stall . Thi1 opening of the. Soviet Union a plus ils manual ditto cuties a has led to an Ini Rouse m Art moving irom the East to the West. A As part of this movement the 225-Vear-old i Lor milage museum in  assembled some of its Pii de works in touring shows designed Tor the United states and Western Europe. One of these exhibits featuring German Art is currently showing at the Schirn Kun Shalle museum in Frankfurt Germany. This is the first time the works have been shown in the country of their origin since they became part of the Hermitage collection. Hie Hermitage holds the largest collection of German Art outside Germany. Tie Schirn exhibit includes 52 paintings covering a period from Lucas cranach the elder 147-2-155 to Caspar David Friedrich 1774-1840. In Between Are works by Bartholomaus Bruyn the elder Christoph Amberger Georg Flegel and Daniel Schultz the works shown Are not sensational but document More the Good taste of russian collectors who amassed a considerable number of works from the old masters school beginning with cranach and continuing to Friedrich part of the romantic movement. Despite decades of restrictions on sending is works abroad and receiving foreign exhibits  still ranks among the world s premiere museums. It has 3 million items from paintings and sculptures to furniture and books nearly All nationalized from Imperial and private collections after the bolshevik revolution in 1917, they represent every Corner of the Globe and every period from Stone age to contemporary. Museum officials spurred by changes in the soviet Union had developed a plan to become the a Center of russian european culture Quot and to become financially healthy by implementing new marketing practices. But the death of the museum s director and cuts in government subsidies have slowed the plan s implementation. Now the Hermitage headed by a More conservative director is reportedly in As much financial trouble As the rest of the country. As a result museum of Lioi als Are feverishly putting together As Many shows us possible to be shown abroad for hard currency to  coffers. The Hermitage collection has been thinned in the past by the practice of Selling Art works to raise Money that began with Czar Nicholas i in the mid-1800s. Hermitage officials insist the practice ended in the 1930s, despite accusations of new sales. The officials say they refuse even to sell lesser valued works to raise a Money for purchases. A we re not interested in Selling the Art just the exhibitions Quot claimed Sergei Frolov head of a marketing subsidiary formed by the museum 1�?T/r years ago. The Schirn exhibit is a result of the museum s new a efforts and is perhaps More important for that fact than the Content of the show. The Schirn exhibit runs until june 9 and is open from 10 . To 9 . Tuesday through Friday. On saturdays sundays and holidays the exhibit is open from 10 . To 7 . Admission is 7 Marks about $4.25 for adults and 5 Marks for students on weekdays and 5 Marks and 4 Marks on sundays. A Catalon is on Sale for 42 Marks. Ending today is a second Frankfurt exhibit of soviet Art that emphasizes the changes in the East. In the carmelite Kloster a Stone s throw from the Schirn work from the Mani a Moskoski Archit Novoro Isku Sotva the Moscow Archive of new Art a was shown for the first time abroad. A Mani represents a movement of several generations of artists who worked underground until 1988. The works All look like spoofs official Art or Are leg nematic Cyphers and inside jokes of the soviet intellectual scene. It is not particularly accessible to Western views. The exhibition is but a snapshot of a continuing process that took place in the artists so called a museum a a Villa on the outskirts of Moscow where the artists worked and exhibited. In an attempt to capture the movement s informality the Frankfurt show is Hung in a crowded labyrinth of Walls that gives the viewer Little room to Back up and see the rather Large paintings. Part of the Mani exhibit will travel to Dusseldorf Germany after it closes in Frankfurt while the rest returns to Moscow. This Story contains material from the associated press april 25, 1991 stripes Magazine 3