European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 1, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                On the roads Highway construction Sites Austria a a-1 Between the Thalau and Salzburg North exits and Between the Linz and Traun interchanges. A-2 Between the port Schach West and Velden West exits. A-9 Between the Graz Webling and Graz West exits. A-10 Between the Fla Thauwinkel exit and the tavern Tunnel. A-12 Between Zirl and Pett Nau. Germany a a-1 Between the up Husen Bremen Lahndorf and Bremen hem Lingen exits. A-2 Between the Gelsenkirchen Buer and Essen glad Eck exits. A-3 Between the Munchhof and Frankfurt interchanges and Between the Frankfurt Sud exit and the Offenbach interchange. A-4 Between the Kiln Sud interchange and the Kiln Poil exit and Between the Duren and Wei Weiler exits. A-5 at the Frankfurt Wes Kreuz and Between the Jastatt and Baden Baden exits. A-7 Between the Hamburg Northwest interchange and the Hamburg Schnelten exit. 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Austria a 910 Belgium a $1.00 czech a a Republic �?74c Denmark a 97c England �?92c on the Economy Finland a 97c France a. $1.09 Germany a $1.08 on the Economy y Greece a 82c Hungary a 83c Italy a $1 14 on the Economy Netherlands a $1.14 Norway a $1.17 Poland a 49c Romania a 31c slovak Republic a 67c Slovenia a 58c Spain a 90c Sweden a $1.07 Switzerland a 91 a Yugoslavia a $1.92. Highway information Telephone numbers listed Are valid for the country named. If calling from another country Check your local Telephone directory for the International Access and country codes. England a 0898-500-241 highways traffic in Britain and Europe Royal automobile club. Germany a 01169 highways traffic in Germany Europe Al Gemeiner Deutscher automobile club German language on Ltd. Italy a 06-4212 or 06-43631 highways traffic in Italy italian automobile club Aci italian language Only. Source Al Gemeiner Deutscher automobile club Munich Germany a amps Ken George Moscow s Pushkin museum of Fine arts is expanding to accommodate its private collections. The exquisitely restored three Story 18thcentury mansion has Long been at the Center of Russia s artistic  Moscow showcase for arts opens by the new York times the Pushkin Mii Seum of Fine arts in Moscow has opened a new Wing to showcase its private collections which have been donated to the museum through much of the 20th Century. Included in the private collections Are paintings by Eugene Delacroix Theodore Ceri Cault and Jean Francois Millet. They were amassed by Sergei m. Tretyakov brother of the founder of the Tretyakov Art museum which is also located in the russian capital. In addition the private collections include sketches and paintings by Salvador Dali and Henri Matisse russian paintings by Ilya Repin Ivan Shishkin Natalya Goncharova an others and drawings presented to the pianist Sviatoslav Richter by his artist friends. The Pushkin museum s building is an exquisitely restored three Story 18th-Century mansion that was once owned by the princely Gol Tsyn family. The House was Long at the Center of Russia s artistic life and was frequently visited by aristocratic patrons. The mansion was turned Over to the Moscow artistic society for use As an artists residence. Boris Pasternak s family lived there from 1911 until 1937 the new Wing is located at 14volk Honka St. The museum s Telephone number is 095/203-9096. To Call from outside Russia dial your International Access code followed by the country code 7 and drop the first 0. The museum is open on wednesdays through sundays from noon to 6 . The Entrance Price costs about 30 cents. A Quot Van Gogh revealed on the Eye of greatness by Richard shone London observer service if you wish to see How bad a great artist could be visit the Vincent Van cough self portraits from the parisian period exhibition at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam Netherlands. The show is a collection of some of the Painter s earlier self portraits. Perhaps their incompetence is shown up All too sharply by the proximity in other rooms of some of his greatest works a his neat lonely bedroom in his House in Arles the yellow House itself under a Cobalt Blue sky one of the sunflowers series the boats on the Beach at Saintes Maries. On and on the masterpieces go in an almost unbroken succession to the last terrifying Cornfield with its a swarming Black crows. The 20 or so self portraits nearly All from the museum s own collection were painted in the two years 188688 that Van Gogh then in his Early 30s, spent in Paris before he took flight for Provence and became the artist we know. _ a the badness of most of them is the result of striving Experiment and confusion. It is a matter of Beckett s this exhibition runs until oct. Quot failing again better Quot rather  conceptual  it would be wrong however to suggest that anything Van Gogh painted before his train steamed towards the Midi is of Little interest. His apprentice years Are absorbing and he famous potato eaters 1885alongside the rough Hen drawings of dutch peasants at work is crucial to the development of his tender but unsentimental realism. But arriving in Paris to stay with Theo his Art dealer brother Van Gogh was plunged into the Center of modernism. Fireworks were thrown at the heart of his dour aesthetic. He was soon in touch with nearly All the significant figures of late 19th-Century painting a with Pissarro Gauguin Lautrec Bernard and Seurat although Van Gogh was soon picking his Way with customary rigor through the stylistic Maze on show Here his Progress was erratic. The self portraits Are an Index to this journey. Although most of them Are muddled As paintings a particularly in the relation of head to picture plane a and not especially revealing As documents of his Frame of mind they have a Peculiar fascination. Several of the works Are painted on the Back of earlier canvases a mostly morose toned still lifes a and both sides Are visible in the exhibition. A sketch for potato eaters for example is repudiated on the front by a crop haired Van Gogh looking like some do Toevs Kian criminal. J. How different the artist appears in nearly All these self examinations. An Early one from 1886, pipe Between his Teeth finds him furrowed prematurely aged terribly dutch the. Following year in Blue piped jacket Cravat and soft Gray hat be appears _ distinctly uncomfortable and a Good Deal younger than 34 truculent be alternates with provincial timidity. The last painting in the show completed shortly before his flight from Paris in Early 188. Is the Best and most monumental image of All. It is of a fierce declamatory Haggard Van Gogh. He is clenching a palette covered in Bright primaries forming a manifesto of his new Confidence. The painting proclaims the end of his Quot apprenticeship Quot and the Start of two years work of prodigious Energy. Distributed by surf put Howard news service 24 stripes Magazine 1september 7, 1994