European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                On the roads Highway construction Sites Austria a-1 Between Seewa Chen and St. Georgen exit. A-2 Between Kru Pendorf and port Schacht East. A-9 Glesnal Tunnel nor Portal a-13 Between Schonberg and Matra Iwald exit. A-22 Between fir Schutz Tunnel Kaise Muhlen and . Germany a-1 Between the up Husen Bremen Lahndorf and Bremen hem Lingen exits and Between k6ln/niehl and Leve Kusen exit s. A-4 Between Aachen and Esch Weher Wei Weiler exits. A-5 Between the Jastatt and Baden Baden exits and Between Fernwald and interchange Gambach. A-7 interchange Hamburg Northwest a-9 Between Weissenfels and bad Durrenberg exits and Between Gross Kugel and Leipzig West exits. A-10 Between Rudersdorf and Berlin cd Penlick. Switzerland n-2 at the Luzern centrum exit Between the Basel said and Basel Ost exits. N-12 Between Fla Matt and Dii Dingen exits. 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England 0898-500-241 highways traffic in Britain and Europe Royal automobile club. Germany 01169 highways traffic in Germany Europe Al Gemeiner Deutscher automobile club German language Only. Italy 06-4212 or 06-43631 highways traffic in Italy italian automobile club Aci italian language Only. Source ally Melner Deutscher automobile club Munich Germany works of american artist Eakins shown in London by Graham Heathcote the associated press american Art historians at London s National portrait gallery expressed Delight recently Over a new exhibition of works by the american 19th Century Painter Thomas Eakins. It is the first Ever show in Europe of Art by the Philadelphia native this exhibition ends Jan 23. Who lived from 1844 to 1916. Only one Public museum in Europe has a painting by him a woman s portrait in the Muse a d orsay in Paris. The London show of 59 paintings drawings and photographs is titled Thomas Eakins and the heart of american life a reference to his advice that if America was to produce great painters Young Art students should remain in America to peer deeper into the heart of american  there is no one like Eakins in american Art and it s Nice to see him Given this attention in England said Kathleen Foster a curator at Indiana University Art museum in Bloomington ind. Eakins and Winslow Homer Are our two greatest artists said John Thomas Eakins self portrait 1902. Wilmerding professor of Art history at Princeton University in Princeton n.j., who edited the exhibition Catalon. Homer is better known because his landscape subjects made big Vork More appealing than the devastatingly Frank portraits of Eakins who looked into the spirit of his Sitters and painted them like Rembrandt he said. R John Hayes who As director of the gallery presides Over the world s largest Archive of portraits said he discovered Eakins during a tour of the palatial gain for russian Art by John Russell the new York times just about every major museum in the world has lately been in the business of expansion. But the Jackpot in this context has surely been won by the russian museum in St. Petersburg. Although it has been housed since 1898 in the Mikhailovsky Palace one of the largest and most Beautiful palaces in the City it has since the fall of the communist regime in 1991 been allocated no less than three More of the most striking buildings the Marble Palace the Engineer s Castle and the Stroganov Palace. These extensions represent a considerable coup for the director of the museum Vladimir Causev. Gusev had two very important things going for him one was the backing of the Strong willed mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak. The other was the fact that with the political changes Palace after Palace throughout the City was going to be released from the uses to which it had been put. Some of these buildings had been reasonably Well kept. Others had been subjected to bizarre not to say comical treatment the Sheremetyev Palace for instance was a civilized Haven for music in the 19th Century Hector Berlioz and others were Welcome there. But under the soviet regime much of it was Given Over to refrigerated water tanks in which the habits of Arctic fish could be studied in Arctic conditions. Meanwhile the mandate of the russian museum had been to cover the whole of russian Art from the icons of the 12th Century to the Art of the Early 20th Century. It also possessed under lock and key later Art that was proscribed by the soviet regime there was far More in its collections than could possibly be shown even in the enormous Mikhailovsky Palace. Nor was All the Art by any Means suited to the Sublime neoclassical interiors of that great building. Many a foreign visitor was dazed by the amount that there was to see. It was possible to go to the russian museum climb the great staircase gaze in Awe at the Many times life size head of Peter the great that glares Down and thereafter get irretrievably lost. Stunned by the enormous and relentlessly literal last Days of Pompeii by Karl Bry Lulov Many visitors missed out on the portrait of the Duma the state Council that was painted Early this Century by Llya Repin. Repin had a Way with politicians singly or in mass that has not often been rivalled for tre Chancy. Often too visitors missed the coverage of the Diaghilev Ballet in the glory Days of its foundation before 1914. The famous portrait of Sergei Diaghilev by Leon Bakst his inspired stage designer might alone have made their trip. United states in 1959-1960. I be loved Eakins Ever since and i was determined to bring his work Here As my last exhibition before i retire in january he said. Eakins was an extremely Good Painter technically but what was most striking was his tremendous insight into the people he painted. They were the achievers of his native Philadelphia scientists surgeons writers teachers musicians and sportsmen who were contributing to a revival of civilized life after the horrors of the civil War. I Hope these powerful and uncompromising portraits will help to Foster a greater appreciation of historic american Art in Britain Hayes said. The Philadelphia convention and visitors Bureau is handing out come to see us literature at the gallery which is around the Corner from the National gallery in Trafalgar Square. We Hope the show will encourage British people to visit us and see More of Eakins pictures and the places where he painted and our other american Art and City sights said  Stabb the Bureau s vice president of communications. Cimabue s painting Back at uffizi from wire reports Cimabue s holy Trinity is Back in the uffizi after restoration with the work sticking to schedule despite a bombing in May that heavily damaged the museum in Florence Italy. The late 13th-Century masterpiece was out of the museum at the time of the bomb blast but the attack damaged dozens of other artworks in the gallery giving a sudden Load of urgent work to restorers. Cimabue painted the byzantine style Madonna for the Church of holy Trinity Between 1280 and 1290 and it has been displayed in the uffizi gallery since 1919. The 20-monthlong restoration was aimed at improving the work s poor condition which was due More to Man than to time said Alfio Del Serra. In the past Hooks were attached to the Back of the painting and its Frame was stolen. However most damaging were earlier attempts to clean the surface using chemicals. 20 stripes Magazine january 6, 1994