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His father Adolf Loos was a German stonemason who died when Loos was nine years old. [4] His mother, Marie Loos, was a sculptor who later carried on the masonry business after her husband's death. Young Adolf Loos had inherited his father's hearing impairment and was significantly handicapped by it throughout his life, contributing to his ...
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Flag of the governor of Seychelles (1903–1961) Flag of the governor of Seychelles (1961–1976) Sir Bruce Greatbatch, colonial governor of the Seychelles, inspecting police guard of honour in 1972. This is a list of colonial governors of Seychelles, an archipelagic island country in the Indian Ocean.
Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon [a] (7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931) was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. [1] [2] [3] He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal works of crowd ...
During Seychelles' time as a French colony, it was a major plantation, supplying much of the island's southern area with agricultural produce. [3] Wall Paintings at Plantation House, La Plaine St. André. In 1996, the national anthem of Seychelles, Koste Seselwa was composed by David André and Georges Payet at an old house at La Plaine St ...
In his book Adolf Loos: The Art of Architecture, writer Joseph Masheck draws parallels between Loos's mausoleum and the work of later post-modern architects and artists including the brick installations of Carl Andre, the "gray prisms" of sculptor Robert Morris and the sculptures of Tony Smith, the last of which was an influence on I. M. Pei. [1]