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| | United Press International - Americas(p) - Modern art that survived Nazi purge shown |
 | | Pechstein's "Seated Female Nude" depicts a young woman with flowing hair and yellow skin highlighted in green poised on a blue and red beach towel. |
 | | Other artists included in the show are Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Erich Heckel, Ludwig Meidner, Emil Nolde, Otto Dix, Hannah Hoch, Rudolf Schlichter, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and George Grosz and Max Beckmann, both of whom emigrated to the United States to escape Hitler. |
 | | The show is titled "Arcadia and Metropolis" to reflect the origins of the German Expressionist movement in rural areas near Dresden, the shores of the Baltic, and in the "Blue Country" south of Munich and the later move to the cities of Berlin, Munich and Dresden. |
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