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Max Beckmann was born into a middle-class family in Leipzig, Saxony.From his youth he pitted himself against the old masters. His traumatic experiences of World War I, in which he volunteered as a medical orderly, coincided with a dramatic transformation of his style from academically correct depictions to a distortion of both figure and space, reflecting his altered vision of himself and ...
Smith perished when the Titanic sank. Flashing intertitle reads: [ C-Q-D Help! Help! We are sinking! ] CQD (transmitted in Morse code) was one of the first distress signals adopted for Marconi radio use, only just being replaced by SOS in 1912. Intertitle: [ The Graveyard of the Sea - Icebergs and Icefloes near the scene of the disaster.]
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The RMS Titanic departs Southampton on April 10, 1912. (Wikipedia) It riveted the world more than a century ago, yet photographs depicting the iceberg that may have caused the greatest nautical ...
The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 14, 1912, after months of being declared the "unsinkable ship." The maritime disaster took the lives of approximately 1,500 people who either sank with ...
Beckmann had visited France the previous year and had the chance of knowing personally the work of several contemporary French painters. The large painting depicts several nude young men, near the sea, of which six appear in the foreground. Four of them are up and two seated in the ground. The boy to the right seems to be playing a musical ...
RMS Titanic sank on 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean.The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time) [a] on 14 April.
The Center of Science and Industry is opening 'Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition' on March 9. The exhibit will feature more than 200 items from the ship