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paragraph: Benzion Netanyahu

paragraph: Benzion Netanyahu (, ; born Benzion Mileikowsky; March 25, 1910 – April 30, 2012) was an Israeli historian. He served as Professor of History at Cornell University. A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in the Revisionist Zionism movement, who lobbied in the United States to support the creation of the Jewish state. His field of expertise was the history of the Jews in Spain, and he served as an editor of the "Hebrew Encyclopedia". He spent a significant portion of his life in the United States. Though he became Ze'ev Jabotinsky's personal secretary, he never got involved directly in Israeli politics. He was the father of current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yonatan Netanyahu, ex-commander of Sayeret Matkal.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Benzion Mileikowsky (later Netanyahu) was born in Warsaw in partitioned Poland which was under Russian control, to Sarah (Lurie) and the writer and Zionist activist Nathan Mileikowsky. Nathan was a rabbi who toured Europe and the United States, making speeches supporting Zionism. After Nathan took the family to Mandate Palestine (aliyah) in 1920, the family name eventually was changed to Netanyahu. After living in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and Safed, the family settled in Jerusalem. Benzion Netanyahu studied in the David Yellin teachers' seminary and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Although his father was a rabbi, Benzion was secular. His younger brother, mathematician Elisha Netanyahu, became Dean of Sciences at the Technion. It was a common practice for Zionist immigrants at the time to adopt a Hebrew name. Nathan Mileikowsky began signing some of the articles he wrote "Netanyahu," the Hebrew version of his first name, and his son adopted this as his family name. He also used the pen name "Nitay."

paragraph: In 1944, Netanyahu married Tzila Segal, whom he met during his studies in Palestine. Together the couple would have three Boys —Yonatan (1946–76), former commander of Sayeret Matkal, who was killed in action leading Operation Entebbe; Benjamin, (b. 1949), Israeli Prime Minister (1996–99, 2009–present); and Iddo (b. 1952), an Israeli physician, author and playwright. Netanyahu became a widower in 2000, when Tzila died.

paragraph: Section::::Zionist activism.

paragraph: Benzion Netanyahu studied medieval history at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. During his studies, Netanyahu became active in Revisionist Zionism, a movement of people who had split from their mainstream Zionist counterparts, believing those in the mainstream were too conciliatory to the British authorities governing Palestine, and espousing a more militant, right-wing version of Jewish nationalism than the one advocated by the Labour Zionists who led Israel in its early years. The revisionists were led by Jabotinsky, whose belief in the necessity of an “iron wall” between Israel and its Arab neighbors had influenced Israeli politics since the 1930s. Netanyahu became a close friend to Abba Ahimeir.

paragraph: Benzion Netanyahu was co-editor of "Betar", a Hebrew monthly (1933–1934), then editor of the Revisionist Zionist daily newspaper "Ha-Yarden" in Jerusalem (1934–1935). until the British Mandate authorities ordered the paper to cease publication. He was editor at the Zionist Political Library, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, 1935–1940.

paragraph: In 1940, Netanyahu went to New York to be secretary to Jabotinsky, who was seeking to build American support for his militant New Zionists. Jabotinsky died the same year, and Netanyahu became executive director of the New Zionist Organization of America, the political rival of the more moderate Zionist Organization of America. He held the post until 1948.

paragraph: As executive director, Netanyahu was one of the Revisionist movement's leaders in the United States during World War II. At the same time, he pursued his PhD at Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in Philadelphia (now the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania), writing his dissertation on Isaac Abrabanel (1437–1508), a Jewish scholar and statesman who opposed the banishment of Jews from Spain.

paragraph: Netanyahu believed in Greater Israel. When the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was published (November 29, 1947), he joined others who signed a petition against the plan. The petition was published in "The New York Times". During that time, he was active in engaging with Congress members in Washington, D.C..

paragraph: In 1949, he returned to Israel, where he tried to start a political career but failed. Relentlessly hawkish, he believed that the "vast majority of Israeli Arabs would choose to exterminate us if they had the option to do so". In his younger days, he had been strongly in favour of the idea of Arab transfer out of Palestine.

paragraph: In 2009, he told "Maariv" that "The tendency to conflict is the essence of the Arab. He is an enemy by essence. His personality won't allow him to compromise. It doesn't matter what kind of resistance he will meet, what price he will pay. His existence is one of perpetual war."

paragraph: Section::::Academic career.

paragraph: Having previously struggled to fit into Israeli academia without success, perhaps due to a combination of personal and political reasons, Netanyahu nonetheless continued his academic activities upon his return to Israel. Though he still was not able to become a member of the academic faculty of the Hebrew University, his mentor Joseph Klausner recommended him to be one of the editors of the “Encyclopaedia Hebraica” in Hebrew; and upon Klausner's death, Netanyahu became chief editor.

paragraph: He returned to Dropsie College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, first as professor of Hebrew language and literature and chairman of the department (1957–1966); then as professor of medieval Jewish history and Hebrew literature (1966–1968). Subsequently, he moved first to University of Denver as professor of Hebraic studies, (1968–1971), then returned to New York in order to edit a Jewish encyclopedia. Eventually he took a position at Cornell University as professor of Judaic studies and chairman of the department of Semitic languages and literature, from 1971–1975. Following the death of his son Yonatan during the Entebbe hostage rescue operation in 1976, he and his family returned to Israel. At the time of his death, Netanyahu was a member of the Academy for Fine Arts and a professor emeritus at Cornell University.

paragraph: Continuing his interest in Medieval Spanish Jewry, Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain and Portugal, Netanyahu wrote a book about Isaac Abrabanel and essays on the Spanish Inquisition and the Marranos. He developed a theory according to which the Marranos converted to Christianity, not under compulsion, but out of a desire to integrate into Christian society. However, as New Christians they continued to be persecuted due to racism, and not purely for religious reasons, as was previously believed. He argued that what was new in the 15th century was the Spanish monarchy’s practice of defining Jews not religiously, but racially, by the principle of "limpieza de sangre", purity of blood; which served as a model for 20th-century racial theories. Netanyahu rejected the idea that the Marranos lived double lives, claiming that this theory arose from Inquisition documents.

paragraph: Netanyahu is perhaps best known for his magnum opus, "Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain". His publisher and friend Jason Epstein wrote of the book: The 1,400-page work of scholarship overturned centuries of misunderstanding, and predictably it was faintly praised and in a few cases angrily denounced or simply ignored by a threatened scholarly establishment. Dispassionate scholars soon prevailed, and today Benzion’s brilliant revisionist achievement towers over the field of Inquisition studies.

paragraph: His obituary in "The New York Times" stated: "Though praised for its insights, the book was also criticized as having ignored standard sources and interpretations. Not a few reviewers noted that it seemed to look at long-ago cases of anti-Semitism through the rear-view mirror of the Holocaust." Indeed, quite generally, Netanyahu regarded Jewish history as "a history of holocausts." "Origins" led Netanyahu into a scholarly dispute with Yitzhak Baer. Baer, following earlier views, considered the Anusim (forced converts to Christianity) to be a case of "Kiddush Hashem" (sanctification of the name [of God]: i.e., dying or risking oneself to preserve the name of God). According to Baer, therefore, the converts chose to live a double life, with some level of risk, while retaining their original faith. Netanyahu, in contrast, challenged the belief that the accusations of the Inquisition were true, and considered the majority of converts to be "Mitbolelim" (Cultural assimilationists), and willing converts to Christianity, claiming that the small number of forced converts who did not truly adhere to their new religion were used by the Inquisition as propaganda to allege a broader resistance movement. According to Netanyahu, Christian society had actually never accepted the new converts, for reasons of racial envy.

paragraph: Netanyahu was a member of the American Academy for Jewish Research, the Institute for Advanced Religious Studies and the American Zionist Emergency Council. In the 1960s, Netanyahu edited in English two more major reference books: the “Encyclopedia Judaica” and “The World History of the Jewish People.”

paragraph: Awarded Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Valladolid (Spain) in 2001.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Netanyahu died on the morning of April 30, 2012, in his Jerusalem home at the age of 102. He was survived by two of his three sons, seven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.

paragraph: Section::::Published works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Don Isaac Abravanel. Statesman and philosopher", 1953. Ithaca, 1998; The Jewish Publication Society, 2001.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Toward the inquisition. Essays on Jewish and converso history in late medieval Spain", Ithaca, 1997.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Marranos of Spain. From the late XIVth to the early XVIth Century", 1966. Ithaca, 1999.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The origins of the Inquisition. In fifteenth Century Spain". New York: Random House, 1st edition August 1995.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Five Forefathers of Zionism, Yedioth Ahronoth", 2004.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Founding Fathers of Zionism." Balfour Books & Gefen Publishing House, 2012.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Netanyahu, Benzion – Assemblage of articles

paragraph: BULLET::::- Netanyahu, Benzion – Summary on key articles

description: Israeli historian

wikidata_label: Benzion Netanyahu

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text: British

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text: sculptor

text: Bath Academy of Art

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text: British Museum

text: University of Warwick

text: National Portrait Gallery

text: Official Website

categories: Alumni of Bath School of Art and Design,British male sculptors,1954 births,Living people,British sculptors

paragraph: Peter Randall-Page

paragraph: Peter Randall-Page RA (born 1954) is a British artist and sculptor. He studied sculpture at Bath Academy of Art from 1973–77. He is best known for his stone sculpture work, inspired by geometric patterns in nature. In his words "geometry is the theme on which nature plays her infinite variations, fundamental mathematical principle become a kind of pattern book from which nature constructs the most complex and sophisticated structures".

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Peter Randall-Page's work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout the world including Japan, South Korea, Australia, United States, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. A selection of his public sculptures can be found in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol and Newbury and he is represented in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum.

paragraph: In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Plymouth and from 2002 to 2005 was an Associate Research Fellow at Dartington College of Arts. He was a member of the design team for the Education Resource Centre (The Core) at the Eden Project in Cornwall, influencing the overall design of the building and incorporating an enormous granite sculpture (‘Seed’) at its heart.

paragraph: Randall-Page was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2015 and is referred to as a Royal Academician allowing the use of RA after his name.

paragraph: Section::::Public collections.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arnolfini Collection Trust, Bristol

paragraph: BULLET::::- The British Council.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The British Embassy, Dublin

paragraph: BULLET::::- The British Museum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bughley Sculpture Garden

paragraph: BULLET::::- Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Contemporary Art Society, London

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Creasy Collection of Contemporary Art, Salisbury

paragraph: BULLET::::- Derby Arboretum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Leeds City Art Galleries

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lincoln City Council

paragraph: BULLET::::- Milton Keynes Community NHS Trust

paragraph: BULLET::::- The National Trust Foundation for Art

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nottinghamshire City Council

paragraph: BULLET::::- University of Nottingham

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prior’s Court School for Autistic Children, Thatcham

paragraph: BULLET::::- University of Tasmania

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tate Collection; 'Where the Bee Sucks'(1991)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ulster Museum, Belfast

paragraph: BULLET::::- Usher Gallery, Lincolnshire County Council

paragraph: BULLET::::- University of Warwick, Coventry

paragraph: BULLET::::- West Kent College, Tonbridge

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Dartington Hall Trust estate, Devon

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Eden Centre, Cornwall

paragraph: Section::::Portrait of Randall-Page.

paragraph: The National Portrait Gallery collection has a 2003 bromide print of Randall-Page.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- London Art and Artists Guide 10th edition, Heather Waddell

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sculpture in 20th-century Britain, Henry Moore Institute 2003

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reviews Artists and Public Space, Black Dog Publishing 2005

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Official Website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Peter Randall-Page talks about his sculpture; Womb Tomb

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text:
police inspector
New York City Police Department
William "Big Bill" Devery
New York City Police Department
Theodore Roosevelt
Board of Police Commissioners
William Strong
Robert Peel
Clifford Talbot
Thomas F. Byrnes
Russell Sage
Roland B. Molineux
William "Big Bill" Devery
Frank Farrell
Timothy "Big Tim" Sullivan
New York Times
dandy
Francis V. Greene
Morello crime family
Sicilian mafiosi
U.S. Secret Service
William Flynn
Barrel murders
Giuseppe Morello
Lupo the Wolf
Vito Cascio Ferro
Tomasso "The Ox" Petto
blackjack
Little Italy
perp walk
paddy wagon
organized crime
Lew Dockstader
Kinetoscope
Edison Kinetscope Company
Theodore Roosevelt
William McAdoo
William McAdoo
Cropsey administration
Rhinelander Waldo
William J. Gaynor
crowd control
ptomaine poisoning
shellfish
acute anemia
red corpuscles
blood transfusion
extreme unction
Max F. Schmittberger
Cornelius Hays
John H. McCullagh
Edward J. Dunphy
Edward Croker
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categories: 1912 deaths,New York City Police Department officers,1861 births,American people of Irish descent

paragraph: George W. McClusky

paragraph: George W. McClusky or McCluskey (1861 – December 17, 1912) was an American law enforcement officer and police inspector in the New York City Police Department. He was popularly known as "Gentleman" or "Chesty McCluskey", the latter name given to him by NYPD Police Chief William "Big Bill" Devery, and was the longtime head of the NYPD Detective's Bureau at the turn of the 20th century. He was also, at one time, the youngest inspector on the police force.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life and police career.

paragraph: Born in New York City, George McClusky joined the New York City Police Department as a patrolman in 1882. He rose more slowly in rank than many of his peers, becoming a roundsman in 1895, then sergeant and police captain within the next two years. When Theodore Roosevelt was appointed head of the Board of Police Commissioners, McClusky was reassigned as a patrolman. His rank would rise and fall more than any other officer in his 30 years on the police force. Indeed, he soon regained his former rank under Mayor William Strong and was considered one of the rising stars in the NYPD during the 1890s.

paragraph: McClusky was considered an ideal undercover detective as his clothes and "aristocratic" manner provided him with an excellent cover. He was credited for a number of high-profile arrests during his early career as a police detective. Among these was the capture confidence man John McDermott whom he pursued through Europe until finally tracking him down at New York's popular Delmonico's on May 28, 1890. McDermott was dining with Sir Robert Peel and Viscount Clifford Talbot, having befriended them on his return voyage to the United States, when McClusky confronted the trickster. An altercation then occurred, the English noblemen angered at McClusky's accusations towards their friend, however McClusky was able to convince the men of McDermott's intentions and prevented them from becoming another of his victims. A protégé of Police Inspector Thomas F. Byrnes, McClusky accompanied Byrnes when he investigated the attempted murder of financier Russell Sage in 1891.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:"Chesty" George and the NYPD Detective's Bureau.

paragraph: In 1897, McClusky was made chief of the NYPD Detective's Bureau. Through evidence largely collected by himself, he was able to arrest murderer Roland B. Molineux. He remained in the bureau for three years before his demotion by Police Chief William "Big Bill" Devery in 1900. Devery was alleged to have been part of a gambling syndicate consisting of himself, Frank Farrell and Timothy "Big Tim" Sullivan which, at the time of McClusky's removal, generated around $3 million from payoffs to corrupt politicians and police officials according to the "New York Times".

paragraph: Following this, Devery was quoted as saying ""I'll put a man in charge of the Detective's Bureau that people can talk to. McClusky is to chesty to be of any use. "Chesty" George, that's what he is"". This was in reference both to his "manly" appearance as well as his familiar "dandy"-style of dress and the nickname would remain with him throughout his career. One summer evening, he visited the Hotel Knickerbocker wearing ""a straw hat of a colored check pattern with a six-inch brim"". A hat designed who was also in the hotel took a sketch of the hat and had his firm manufacturing them. A few days later, McClusky allegedly saw his hat in a Broadway store under a sign which read ""Step in and buy a Merry Widow. The kind wore by Inspector McClusky, the swellest cop in the world"".

paragraph: Two years later, McClusky became a police inspector and assigned to the Fifth District by Commissioner Francis V. Greene. At 42 years old, he was the youngest man in the NYPD to hold the position. Greene also returned him to the detective's bureau and soon went after the Morello crime family, an early Sicilian mafiosi organization, whose investigation would come into conflict with U.S. Secret Service chief William Flynn then investigating the "Barrel murders". McClusky immediately went on the offensive ordering the arrest of a dozen known members of the Morellos. The arrests were met by fierce and violent fighting which in some cases, again according to the "New York Times", ended only when suspects heads were ""slammed into the pavement to overcome resistance"". Among those arrested were Giuseppe Morello, Lupo the Wolf, Vito Cascio Ferro, and 24-year-old Tomasso "The Ox" Petto. Petto, the "Times" claimed, had "fought like a wild beast" until a police officer knocked him out in "a stunning blow" with a blackjack.

paragraph: He later marched the Morellos though the streets of Little Italy, a move that has been described as an early version of the perp walk that later become a common practice of law enforcement in New York and the country as a whole. Although McClusky claimed that the three paddy wagons which had been scheduled to transport them to the courthouse had not shown, it has been speculated that he really wanted to humiliate the Morellos by parading them "before their countrymen as the Romans had paraded their captives". Italian police were also known to use this tactic.

paragraph: The mafiosi however received a sympathetic response from the large crowd which had gathered. A movement in the crowd cased detectives to believe a rescue attempt was being made to free the prisoners and police ""broke up the crowd ... knocking down some men and boys"". Flynn criticized McClusky's recklessness, noting the mobsters now had time to ""get their stories straight"", however the NYPD had brought significant attention to organized crime in New York. Vito Cascio Ferro fled from the city, living in New Orleans for a time, before returning to Sicily where he resided as a powerful figure in the Mafia for several decades.

paragraph: On May 20, 1904 McCluskey came upon a vaudeville performer named Lew Dockstader who, on the streets of New York, was making a Kinetoscope film with the Edison Kinetscope Company. The short film was about president and former Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt. McCluskey detained Dockstader and seized the film, costumes, and "other accessories." The "series of pictures" attempted to caricature you and the office you hold" said William McAdoo in a letter to Roosevelt. Dockstader agreed to turn the film over to the New York City Police Department to be forwarded to Washington, and then destroyed. With that agreement, Dockstader was released. What happened to the film is unknown. It was never displayed to the public.

paragraph: McCluskey's return lasted only a short while and he was removed once more in 1905 when William McAdoo succeeded Greene as commissioner. His career did not improve under the Cropsey administration as he was demoted to captain and sent to Morrisania Station. His rank was eventually restored under Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo after his appointment in 1911.

paragraph: McCluskey was present when the survivors of the Titanic were received by Mayor William J. Gaynor and Commissioner Waldo, the police inspector handling crowd control with 12 mounted police officers and a squad of plainclothes men who established an area covering a two block radius which was closed to the general public barring passes from the federal government or the Cunard line.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Death.

paragraph: In late 1912, McClusky became mysteriously ill while in charge of the Fourteenth Inspection District. It was first believed he had become sick with ptomaine poisoning after eating shellfish at a recent shore dinner and took a leave of absence on September 18. His condition did not improve however and a physical examination found he was suffering from acute anemia. The following day, a more thorough examination by Dr. Charles E. Nammack found his blood contained only 27% of red corpuscles found in normal blood. McClusky's health grew continually worse over the next few months. Dr. Nammack later diagnosed his condition as a rare form of anemia. The doctor later explained further ""Little is known of the rare form of anemia from which the Inspector suffered. It is called progressive pernicious anaemia, and of the 1,200 cases known to the medical profession, only six recoveries are reported"". A blood transfusion, he claimed, would be been ineffective as McClusky's heart and other organs were undergoing a general breakdown. In the last weeks of his life, the red corpuscles in his blood fell to 9%.

paragraph: He finally died at his West Seventeenth Street home on the night of December 17, 1912. His three sisters Mary, Margaret and Ida McClusky were with him at the time of his death. The latter two sisters were unmarried and still lived with McClusky. Mgr. Matthew A. Taylor of the Church of Blessed Sacrament was also in attendance to administer extreme unction. Funeral services were held by the church at his residence the following day.

paragraph: Although his last wishes were to have a small and quiet ceremony with no oration, the large attendance and number of floral tributes made the service more elaborate than was intended. Among those present at the funeral included Chief Inspector Max F. Schmittberger, former Police Inspector Cornelius Hays, former Police Chief John H. McCullagh, former Congressman Edward J. Dunphy and former fire chief Edward Croker. At around 10:00 am, his body was removed from his home and carried to the hearse by seven pallbearers from Traffic Squad 3. These men were Patrolmen Brune, Matthews, Kennedy, Juna, Maloy, Shine and Young. A requiem mass was held at the Church of Blessed Sacrament before his body was buried at Calvary Cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Costello, Augustine E. "Our Police Protectors: History of the New York Police from the Earliest Period to the Present Time". New York: A.E. Costello, 1885.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Friedland, Martin. "The Death of Old Man Rice: A True Story of Criminal Justice in America". New York: New York University Press, 1996.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Schechter, Harold. "The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century". New York: Ballantine Books, 2007.

description: Headed NYPD Detective Bureau from 1897–1900 and 1902-1905; credited for the arrests of confidence man John McDermott and murderer Roland B. Molineux.

wikidata_label: George W. McClusky

wikipedia_title: George W. McClusky


text: German

text: painter

text: Arnold Büchli

text: Eduard Fischer

text: Lucerne

text: Munich

text: Ferdinand Avenarius

text: Kunsthaus Zürich

text: Lucerne Museum of Art

text: Zürichberg

text: Sylt

text: Fliegende Blätter

text: Sauerländer

categories: 1937 deaths,19th-century Swiss painters,Swiss male painters,20th-century Swiss painters,1879 births

paragraph: Franz Karl Basler-Kopp

paragraph: Franz Karl Basler-Kopp (1879–1937) was a German painter, who lived in Switzerland. In addition to works with historic and biblical scenes, symbolic portrayals of the phases of life, he created, most famously, illustrations of legends and fairy tales. He was educated at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

paragraph: He became known as a "fairy tale painter" ("Märchenmaler") through his illustrations of Arnold Büchli's three volume work "Schweizersagen" (Swiss legends) (1926, 1928 and 1931) as well as through his illustration and cover design of several books, some of which were written for literary and musical education in schools, such as "Osterhas, Sankt Nicolas, Weihnacht und Neujahr" by Eduard Fischer (1926) and the book of fairy tales "Am Märchenbrunnen" by Helene Kopp.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Franz Karl Basler was born to a farming family from South Bavaria. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Lucerne, where Basler grew up in poor conditions. He later compensated for his lack of education with intensive reading of widely diverse literature, from which he almost always drew motifs for his artwork. While still at school he also lost use of his right hand following an infection and became lefthanded.

paragraph: From 1893 to 1898 he studied glass sculpting at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. However, he was more interested in painting on canvas and paper, to which he devoted himself in his spare time. After his education he no longer attended schools, nor did he seek contact to colleagues. He remained a retired recluse for the rest of his life. In 1905 he married Julia Kopp, the daughter of the headteacher of Lucerne School. He found in her a companion, with whom he shared his life struggle with the most, particularly during the long years of his severe illness in later life.

paragraph: In both 1912 and 1914 he traveled to Munich. On the first study trip, he took part in an exhibition in Munich, after which he was invited by Ferdinand Avenarius, the director of the "Kunstwart", to publish some pictures. This was also the start of a friendship, which lasted until Avenarius' death in 1923. Over the course of their friendship they both discussed at length the relationship between art and humans and their mutual alienation.

paragraph: Every year from 1910 to 1919, Basler took part first in national art exhibitions, then in those in the Kunsthaus Zürich, although he only submitted a few pieces. Afterwards, however, he almost totally stopped taking part. It was not until 1931, encouraged by his friends and organised by the Lucerne Museum of Art, that he once again published 70 paintings and drawings in the old War and Peace Museum.

paragraph: Basler's paintings only had a few buyers. One of them was the ETH Professor Adolf Tobler, who purchased a series of pictures for his villa in Zürichberg. From 1922 to 1923 he also made it possible for him to take two trips to Germany, to Dresden and Hamburg, where Avenarius let him use his house on the island of Sylt. Both these trips are reflected in many Nordic motifs, in "Fremde – Heimkehr", among others.

paragraph: Artistic freedom meant everything to Basler, regardless of existential issues. Thus he declined an offer from the Munich "Fliegende Blätter" to join them as a fairy tale illustrator. However he worked regularly for the publisher Sauerländer for some years. His illustrations for the three volume work of Swiss legends by Arnold Büchli became particularly famous, a work that also left its mark on his paintings, for example in "Hexenhaftler".

paragraph: As an artist Basler was a late-born romanticist, driven to continue the artistic elements that found their great fulfillment in Spitzweg, Welti, Böcklin, a narrator and illustrator who created a fairytale and saga of highly individual sentiment, relying on the pictorial power of popular poetry.

paragraph: He lived the last years of his life unconcerned about the artistic Zeitgeist, from which he always distanced himself with his own creations, and led a true hermit's life. A terrible illness that he had long been suffering from took his life on April 1 1937.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Die Hexenhalfter, Kreide auf Papier, Kunstmuseum Luzern

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fremde – Heimkehr, Öl auf Kupfer, Kunstmuseum Luzern

paragraph: BULLET::::- Die schwarze Spinne, Kreide auf Papier, Kunstmuseum Luzern

paragraph: BULLET::::- Vor dem Stadttor, Pastell auf Karton, Kunstmuseum Luzern

paragraph: Section::::Literature.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kunstwart 1916, Heft 29, S. 96.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kunstwart 1921, Heft 11, S. 311.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia."

description: Swiss artist

wikidata_label: Franz Karl Basler-Kopp

wikipedia_title: Franz Karl Basler-Kopp


href: Switzerland Painting

text: Swiss painter

categories: 1886 births,Swiss male painters,1983 deaths,20th-century Swiss painters

paragraph: Paul Bodmer

paragraph: Paul Bodmer (1886–1983) was a Swiss painter.

paragraph: Section::::References.

description: Swiss artist

wikidata_label: Paul Bodmer

wikipedia_title: Paul Bodmer


text: Swiss painter

categories: Swiss male painters,20th-century Swiss painters,1896 births,1953 deaths

paragraph: Heinrich Danioth

paragraph: Heinrich Danioth (1896–1953) was a Swiss painter.

paragraph: Section::::References.

description: Swiss artist

wikidata_label: Heinrich Danioth

wikipedia_title: Heinrich Danioth


text:
Geneva
Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer
Antoine Gros
Bernese Highlands
Savoy
Lake Geneva
Alexandre Calame
Salève
Vienna World's Fair
Guillaume Henri Dufour
Neuchâtel Crisis
Cimetière des Rois
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon
More works by Diday

categories: 1802 births,19th-century Swiss painters,Swiss male painters,Swiss landscape painters,1877 deaths

paragraph: François Diday

paragraph: François Diday (10 February 1802, Geneva - 28 October 1877, Geneva) was a Swiss landscape painter and art promoter.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: His father was a watchmaker and scrap dealer. His mother worked as a tailor. After completing his primary education, he chose not to attend college, deciding instead to learn German and take drawing lessons from Abraham-Louis-Théodore Constantin-Jetzeler (1782-1847). He began his professional education in earnest at the Arts Society and took lessons from the landscape painters, and Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer.

paragraph: In 1821, he continued his education in Paris, where he worked at the studios of Antoine Gros then, in 1824, received a small scholarship from the Arts Society to study in Italy. He went to Rome, accompanied by his friend Adrien Rival (1802-1825). They also stayed briefly in Naples, but ran out of money and Rival became ill, so they had to return in 1825. He soon developed a preference for painting mountainous landscapes in the Bernese Highlands, Savoy and around Lake Geneva. Around 1830, he opened a studio and gave lessons. One of his first students was Alexandre Calame, only a few years younger than he. Later, they would become friendly rivals. For many years, he lived with his mother in Salève.

paragraph: During the 1840s, he received numerous medals at exhibitions in Switzerland. He also exhibited in Paris, Berlin, London and Brussels. In 1873, he was awarded a bronze medal at the Vienna World's Fair.

paragraph: In addition to his artistic activities, he served as an officer under General Guillaume Henri Dufour during the Neuchâtel Crisis, rising to the rank of Major, and was elected to the Conseil Municipal of Geneva in 1854. He served in that capacity for twenty-five years. In his will, he left a bequest of 100 drawings and sketches that would be sold to establish the "Fondation Diday".

paragraph: He is buried at the Cimetière des Rois. A steret in Geneva, the "Rue François Diday", has been named after him..

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Renate Treydel: "Diday, François". In: "Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon". Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (AKL). Vol.27, Saur, München u. a. 2000, , pg.191.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- More works by Diday @ ArtNet

alias:
Francois Diday
diday
f. diday
diday francois

description: Swiss artist

wikidata_label: François Diday

wikipedia_title: François Diday


text: Swiss

text: painter

text: Münchenstein

text: Fribourg

text: Albrecht Mayer

text: Fritz Baumann

text: Académie de la Grande Chaumière

text: Meret Oppenheim

text: Impressionism

text: Nazi

text: World War 2

text: Group 33

text: World War 2

text: Morocco

text: Spain

text: Italy

text: Stadttheater Basel

text: Basel Cultural Award

text: Paul Sacher

text: Kunstmuseum Basel

text: Riehen

text: Barcelona

text: Gare Montparnasse

text: Hotel "Les Trois Rois"

text: Hans Christian Andersen

text: Colette

text: Barbey d'Aurevilly

text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

text: Kunstmuseum Basel

text: Irène Zurkinden

text: Andreas Kotte

text: Theaterlexikon der Schweiz

text: Literatur von und über Irène Zurkinden

text: Deutschen Nationalbibliothek

text: Biografie und Bibliografie

text: Irène Zurkinden

text: Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz

categories: Women painters,1909 births,1987 deaths,20th-century Swiss painters

paragraph: Irène Zurkinden

paragraph: Irène Zurkinden (December 11, 1909 - December 27, 1987) was a Swiss painter.

paragraph: Section::::Life and achievements.

paragraph: Irène Zurkinden spent her childhood in Basel and Münchenstein. Her father was a customs officer from Fribourg, her mother Jeanne was a dance instructor. Irène's family was very open-minded and allowed the adolescent who wanted to become a fashion illustrator to enroll at Basel's art school in 1925. There, Irène Zurkinden attended drawing classes with Albrecht Mayer (1875–1952), studied color theory under Arnold Fiechter (1879–1943) and graphic arts under Fritz Baumann (1886–1942). Until she got her degree in 1929, she produced mainly portrait drawings.

paragraph: That year, Irène Zurkinden made her first trip to Paris, where she continued her education for a few months at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1932, she spent a couple of months in the French capital with Meret Oppenheim, a friend since around 1927/28. In the years following her graduating, Ms. Zurkinden began painting more scenic cityscapes in a style clearly influenced by Impressionism. During this time, she lived alternately in Paris and Basel, where she earned herself a reputation as a popular portrait artist. From 1932 to 1972, the artist had an annual exhibition in the Gallery of Marguerite Schulthess in Basel's Aeschenvorstadt. After Marguerite Schulthess's death, Ms. Zurkinden became a fixture of Basel's Gallery Riehentor, whose owner Trudl Bruckner was a founding member of ART Basel. In 1980, the Beyeler Gallery in Basel's Bäumleingasse presented the artist in a solo exhibition.

paragraph: In 1934, Irène Zurkinden met jazz musician Kurt Fenster, the son of a Brazilian circus artist and a German mother. During the Nazi dictatorship, Fenster emigrated to Paris. The couple lived for several years in the French capital. At the outbreak of World War 2, Irène Zurkinden returned to Switzerland. Her sons Nicolas (Kolka) (*1937) and Stephan (*1943) from her relationship with Kurt Fenster grew up with their mother in Basel.

paragraph: From 1942, Irène Zurkinden participated in the exhibitions of Group 33. During the second half of the 1930s and the early 1940s, she produced works inspired by surrealism. In 1985, the Kunstmuseum Basel honored her with a comprehensive retrospective of her work.

paragraph: After World War 2, Irène Zurkinden lived in Basel and Paris and made long trips to Morocco (1948), Spain (1950/51) and Italy (1952/53). In those years, she designed costumes and sets for the Stadttheater Basel and increasingly worked on book illustrations.

paragraph: Section::::Awards and commemoration.

paragraph: In 1986 she was awarded the Basel Cultural Award.

paragraph: The city of Basel honored the artist in 2014 by naming a tree-lined public square "Irène Zurkinden Square". It is a new traffic junction at the planned Dreispitz high-rise.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Autoportrait en chapeau de paille", 1929, LM, C. Bernoulli, Basel

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Porträt Paul Sacher", o. J., Privatbesitz

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Meret à l'orange", 1932–1935, Kunstmuseum Basel

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Pariser Dächer", 1934, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel-Stadt

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dialogue muet sur le bonheur", 1936, Privatsammlung

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Le cirque du monde", o. J., Privatsammlung Riehen

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Interieur mit geschmücktem Weihnachtsbaum", 1939, Merian-Iselin-Spital, Basel

paragraph: BULLET::::- "La gare d'Agen (Lot et Garonne)", 1940, Privatbesitz

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ballet lugubre", 1942, Privatbesitz

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Friedhof in Paris", um 1950, Privatbesitz Barcelona

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Rêve: Cocteau mène la danse", 1962, Privatbesitz

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Paris, Gare Montparnasse", 1966, Sammlung Hotel "Les Trois Rois", Basel

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Filles maboules sur boules", 1975, Privatbesitz

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Park in Paris", 1985, Privatbesitz

paragraph: Section::::Book illustrations.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hans Christian Andersen: "Die Schneekönigin. Märchen in sieben Geschichten mit fünf Farblithografien von Irène Zurkinden." Bern o. J. (ca. 1950)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Colette: "Die Freundin." Franz. Original "La Seconde" (erschienen 1931), ins Deutsche übertragen von Waltrud Kappeler und Louis Erlacher, mit Illustrationen von Irène Zurkinden, Zürich 1956

paragraph: BULLET::::- Helen Vischer: "Anmutig heiteres Lob und literarisches Denkmal für die Stadt Basel." Zürich 1956

paragraph: BULLET::::- Maud Frère: "Einsames Herz." Franz. Original "La Grenouille", ins Deutsche übertragen von Marguerite Janson mit Illustrationen von Irène Zurkinden, Zürich 1962

paragraph: BULLET::::- Barbey d'Aurevilly: "Le rideau cramoisi." Mit elf Lithografien von Irène Zurkinden, Lausanne 1970

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hermann Schneider: "Der Mann mit dem Hifthorn." Basel o. J. (ca. 1971)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Aus den Memoiren des Marshalls von Bassompierre." Mit sieben Federzeichnungen von Irène Zurkinden, Basel 1974

paragraph: Section::::Literature.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Christian Geelhaar: "Irène Zurkinden." Kunstmuseum Basel, 1985.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Simone Gojan: "Irène Zurkinden." In: Andreas Kotte (Hrsg.): "Theaterlexikon der Schweiz." Band 3, Chronos, Zürich 2005, , S. 2165.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hans-Joachim Müller: "Irène Zurkinden." Friedrich Reinhardt AG, 2006 .

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Literatur von und über Irène Zurkinden im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biografie und Bibliografie bei sikart.ch Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tapan Bhattacharya: Irène Zurkinden im Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz

description: Swiss painter

wikidata_label: Irène Zurkinden

wikipedia_title: Irène Zurkinden


text: Swiss

text: Versoix

text: Canton of Geneva

text: Zürich

text: Haute couture

text: tailor

text: ceramist

text: Lucerne

text: Zumikon

text: Max Bill

text: Florence

text: The Hague

text: Tel Aviv

text: Haifa

text: Jerusalem

text: Budapest

text: Antwerp

text: Lindau

text: polyester

text: art prints

text: screen prints

text: Chur

text: Mythenquai

text: Bülach

text: morning glory

text: Max Bill

categories: 2002 deaths,Swiss women painters,20th-century Swiss painters,1925 births,20th-century Swiss sculptors,People from the canton of Geneva

paragraph: Annemie Fontana

paragraph: Annemie Fontana (14 December 1925 – 25 October 2002), born "Jacqueline Annemarie Fontana", was a Swiss sculptor and painter.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Fontana was born in Versoix, Canton of Geneva. Her father was the painter Alois Fontana. Shortly after her birth the family moved to Zürich. From 1943 to 1946, Annemie Fontana was apprentice in an Haute couture atelier and finished her training as a tailor. Afterwards she trained as a ceramist at "Gebrüder Müller" in Lucerne. In 1950 she established her first studio in the ""Alte Mühle"" (Old Mill) at Mühlebachstrasse, Zürich. In 1954 she displayed her first sculptures. In 1960 she gave up her main profession as a tailor and became a full-time artist. Since 1969, she lived and worked in Zumikon where also Max Bill lived, with whom she was friends. Fontana won several prize competitions for works in public spaces. Her works were displayed at solo as well as at group exhibitions mainly in the Zürich area, and at several exhibitions further afield in Switzerland. She took also part in some international group exhibitions: Florence (1967), The Hague (1968), Tel Aviv (1972), Haifa, Jerusalem, Budapest, Antwerp (1973), Lindau (1977) and again Budapest (1978). Annemie Fontana died on 25 October 2002 in Zürich.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Amongst the work of Annemie Fontana are sculptures depicting animals, abstract sculptures made of polyester (called "phantoms"), large sculptures made of metal and polyester, metal heads as well as art prints such as screen prints.

paragraph: Section::::Work.:Examples.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1964 "Wasserorgel" (""Water Organ"", fountain) at Montalin school, Chur

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1969 Döltschihalde buildings, Zürich

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1969 – 1972 "Sirius" (fountain) at Escher-Wyss-Platz, Zürich

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1969 − 1972 "Sitzmuschel" (""Sitting Shell"") at public swimming pool Mythenquai, Zürich

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1974 "Sunrise" (sculpture) at sports field Hardhof, Zürich

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1974 "Sitzwellen" (""Sitting Waves"") at public swimming pool Zumikon

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1980 – 1983 "Durchschritt" (""Stepthrough"", sculpture) at Cantonal school Bülach

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1995 – 1996 «Sesam-Tür und Bronzeplastik» (""Sesame Door and bronze sculpture"") at Widder Hotel, Zürich

paragraph: Section::::Work.:"Sirius".

paragraph: One of Fontana's most well known works is the fountain "Sirius" which was located at Escher-Wyss-Platz in Zürich. This fountain sculpture was removed on 18 March 2009. It was constructed from 1969 to 1972, made from bright orange polyester. The sculpture, its appearance resembling two intertwined spiral staircases, was mounted in a pool with a height of just a few centimetres. The pool was painted green on the inside. As inspiration for the fountain's dynamics, Annemie Fontana filmed the opening and closing of morning glory flowers in time lapse. The concept for the fountain was modified two times. Originally, the intention was to create continuous curtains of water falling from the edges of half-open pipes which were embedded in the underside of the wings. At the pool's bottom there were two lights illuminating the underside of the sculpture through the water. However, it wasn't possible to achieve the desired appearance of the water curtains and therefore, with the agreement of Annemie Fontana, an attempt was made to change them to a "water comb" by drilling small holes into the pipes. This construction remained prone to malfunctions as the pipes often clogged. Cleaning was an elaborate process and water sprayed out of the pool. Again with the artist's agreement, this led to a thorough conversion. In 1996, the pipes were removed and as a replacement for the water curtains the pool was fitted with two small water jets, each of a height of approximately thirty centimetres. The water jets were additionally illuminated from above by lamps fitted to the sculpture. At night, the fountain was turned off.

paragraph: The fountain was controversial before its construction. The suitability of the material (polyester) was put into question; administrative offices were especially concerned about durability and also expected difficulties with disposal of the sculpture, should the need arise. It was also believed that, exposed to weather, the colours would deteriorate over time. This led to the rather long delay between planning in 1969 and eventual erection in 1972.

paragraph: After the installation of "Sirius", public reception was controversial, too. Max Bill is reported to have praised the fountain as the best art object in public space. Zürich's Civil Engineering Office declares it an "important witness of history and a significant, idiosyncratic work". Passers-by called it a "dismal sculpture" and a "strange seventies design".

paragraph: As Escher-Wyss-Platz is being reconstructed since 9 September 2008, a new location for the fountain is needed. It is no longer included in the new design for the square. A decision regarding the new place has not been made yet; the reconstructed square at Zürich Wiedikon railway station is being evaluated as a potential location.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Fontana Foundation (Fontana-Gränacher-Stiftung)

description: Swiss sculptor and painter

wikidata_label: Annemie Fontana

wikipedia_title: Annemie Fontana


text: Swiss painter

categories: Swiss male painters,1914 births,1997 deaths,20th-century Swiss painters

paragraph: Carl Walter Liner

paragraph: Carl Walter Liner (1914–1997) was a Swiss painter.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia."

alias:
Carl Liner
Karl Liner

description: Swiss artist

wikidata_label: Carl Walter Liner

wikipedia_title: Carl Walter Liner


text:
Hubersdorf
Zürich
Kunstgewerbeschule
Bern
Langnau
Kriegstetten
Wichtrach
Félix Vallotton
La Ruche
Fritz Baumann
Jura Mountains
World War I
Solothurn
Art Nouveau
Cubism
Futurism
Zürich University of the Arts
Canton Solothurn
Works by Morach

categories: Swiss male painters,1973 deaths,20th-century Swiss painters,1887 births

paragraph: Otto Morach

paragraph: Otto Morach (2 August 1887, Hubersdorf - 25 December 1973, Zürich) was a Swiss painter and poster artist.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: After completing his primary studies he began attending the Kunstgewerbeschule in Bern and acquired his teaching certificate. For the next two years, he was active as a secondary teacher in Langnau, Kriegstetten and Wichtrach. In 1910, he found a studio in Paris and attracted the attention of Félix Vallotton, who suggested that he study figurative drawing.

paragraph: After a short stay in Munich, he returned to Paris in the winter of 1912/1913 and worked at La Ruche, an artists' residence. There, he made friends with Fritz Baumann and spent several weeks painting with him in the Jura Mountains. The outbreak of World War I made it impossible to remain in France, so he divided his time between Solothurn and his mandatory military service. During these years, he switched from Art Nouveau to Cubism and Futurism.

paragraph: In 1919, he became a teacher at the Zürich University of the Arts and remained there until 1953. He married Hermana Sjövall in 1923. They spent much of the 1920s travelling throughout Europe and spent their summers in southern France.

paragraph: After his retirement, he painted very little. In 1971 he was awarded the Kunstpreis of Canton Solothurn.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Works by Morach @ ArtNet

description: Swiss artist

wikidata_label: Otto Morach

wikipedia_title: Otto Morach


text:
freestyle motocross
Metal Mulisha
X Games
Omaha, Nebraska
femur
four wheels
Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series
Crandon International Off-Road Raceway
Traxxas TORC Series
Race of Champions
Monster truck
Reliant Stadium
Houston, Texas
Phoenix, Arizona
Chase Field
OlsbergsMSE
Ford Fiesta
Global RallyCross Championship
Chip Ganassi Racing
M-Sport
Jeff Ward
MTV
Viva La Bam
kidney
spleen
Bam Margera
Don Vito
Raab Himself
Jeremy Stenberg
Nate Adams
Spike TV
Fantastic Four
MTV
Transworld MX
Racer X
FHM
Xbox
Nintendo GameCube
PlayStation 2
Freekstyle
Walmart
Jeremy Lusk
Nate Adams
Hailie
Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series
Drive for Diversity
NASCAR
Toyota Camry
Bill McAnally Racing
NASCAR K&N Pro Series West
NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series
Brian Deegan's official website
Metal Mulisha website
"Disposable Hero" website

categories: Freestyle motocross riders,Global RallyCross Championship drivers,1974 births,Sportspeople from Omaha, Nebraska,Motocross riders,American motorcycle racers,X Games athletes,Living people,American Christians

paragraph: Brian Deegan (motorcyclist)

paragraph: Brian Deegan (born May 9, 1974) is an American professional freestyle motocross rider, racing driver, and a founding member of the Metal Mulisha. Deegan was the first ever to do a 360 in competition; he named the trick the "Mulisha Twist". He is the most decorated Freestyle Motocross rider in X Games history. With 10 total medals (3 Golds and 7 Bronzes), he is the only rider to compete in at least 1 event in every X Games. He became a born again Christian after a near fatal crash in 2005.

paragraph: Section::::Racing career.

paragraph: Deegan was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He became a pro supercross rider with Team Moto XXX at age 17. In 1997 at the LA Coliseum, Brian Deegan won the 125cc main and in true rebel fashion, ghost rode his bike across the finish line. This was the beginning of what we know today as Freestyle Motocross.

paragraph: In 2004, at the Winter X Games, Deegan crashed while attempting a 360 over a 100 ft snow double, breaking his femur and both wrists. He came back 6 months later to place fourth at the Summer X Games. Deegan was also the first rider ever to land a 360 (Mulisha Twist) in competition.

paragraph: Switching to four wheels in 2009, Deegan ventured into short course off-road racing in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series' Unlimited Lites division, winning the championship over experienced drivers.

paragraph: At the 2010 X Games, Deegan competed in the Rally Car Racing event at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Deegan finished second behind Tanner Foust due to a wrong turn he made during the race. Brian also competed in Rally Car Super Rally where he also finished second behind Tanner Foust.

paragraph: At X Games XVII, Deegan won gold in RallyCross.

paragraph: In 2011, he won the World Championship race at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway in the Traxxas TORC Series. He also competed at the Race of Champions. He also won the championships in the Pro Lite Unlimited and Pro 2 classes of the Lucas oil Off Road Racing Series.

paragraph: In 2012, he debuted the Metal Mulisha Monster truck. Todd LeDuc officially debuted it at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas in January 2012. Deegan himself drove the truck in Phoenix, Arizona at Chase Field. He was scheduled to drive the truck at the Monster Jam World Finals 13, but injured himself in driving practice. Todd LeDuc replaced him. He also won his second championship in the Pro 2 class of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series.

paragraph: Deegan raced an OlsbergsMSE Ford Fiesta at the Global RallyCross Championship, resulting runner-up in 2012, fourth in 2013 and 12th in 2014. He also continued his Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series career, winning the Pro Light Unlimited championship in 2013 and the Pro 2 championship in 2014. In 2015, Deegan was hired by Chip Ganassi Racing to compete in seven Global Rallycross Championship races in an M-Sport Fiesta along with former professional motocross rider Jeff Ward.

paragraph: Section::::Media appearances.

paragraph: During a 2005 taping of MTV's Viva La Bam Deegan under-rotated a back-flip and the handle bars hit hard in his midsection, almost losing his life. He lost a kidney, lacerated his spleen, and lost a significant amount of blood. He now has a long scar down his stomach, that he calls his "zipper", spanning almost his entire abdomen, as a result of the accident. At the end of the episode when it originally aired, Bam dedicated it to Brian. The accident was cut out of the show.

paragraph: Also during taping of the same show, Bam Margera's uncle, Don Vito, was forced by his nephew to lay down on the ground with the intention of Deegan and two others to jump over him, for what Margera and Deegan called the "Fatboy Jump World Record". Vito was held by the feet and arms by Margera and Raab Himself in order to restrain him. The bikers jumped over Vito, with Deegan narrowly missing him by less than a foot away, which startled Vito. That bit was featured in the show.

paragraph: In 2006, Deegan and Berkela films released a film entitled "Disposable Hero" that follows him through the struggles and rewards that accompany the freestyle motocross sport and lifestyle. Jesse James, Ronnie Faist, Jeremy Stenberg, Cameron Steele, Chris Ackerman, Nate Adams, and Seth Enslow are a few of the featured cast that talk about Deegan and his life's journeys. The film aired on Spike TV on December 5, 2007.

paragraph: Deegan performed stunts in the movie "Fantastic Four". He is also working on a reality show for MTV. There is no scheduled air date yet.

paragraph: He has been on the cover of "Transworld MX" and "Racer X" magazines and has been featured multiple times in "FHM" magazine.

paragraph: Deegan was in the Xbox/Nintendo GameCube/PlayStation 2 video game "Freekstyle".

paragraph: Section::::Other ventures.

paragraph: In addition to supporting riders, the Metal Mulisha have a clothing line and other related merchandise. Deegan also has a toy line called Hevy Hitters distributed in retail locations such as Walmart. Most recently he teamed up with Illektron to create Battlez FMX, a collectible card and dice game featuring Deegan, Todd Potter and Jeremy Lusk.

paragraph: He is the former owner of the FMX park, the Compound, which he later sold to Nate Adams. At the 2007 X Games Deegan stated he sometimes regrets selling it. He also owns Supercross.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Deegan's daughter, Hailie, also competed in the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series. She was a NASCAR Drive for Diversity member in 2016 and is a member of the 2017–18 NASCAR Next program. She currently drives the No. 19 Toyota Camry for Bill McAnally Racing full-time in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West and part-time in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East.

paragraph: Section::::Career highlights.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1997 Los Angeles Supercross – 1st place

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1999 World Freestyle champ / Gravity Games Silver

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000 Gravity Games Gold

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000 Air MX Champ

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2000 Bluetorch Ride and Slide FMX Champ

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2001 Moto x Big Air – Bronze

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2002 Winter X Games Gold

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003 Featured Rider on Tony Hawk tour

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003 Summer X-Games Gold

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2003 EXPN Rider of the year nominee

paragraph: BULLET::::- First to land a 360

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2004 ESPY award nominee

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hold the most medals in FMX X Games history: 10 medals

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2004 ESPN top 100 athlete of all sports

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2005 Winter X Games Gold Medalist

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2007 Winner Best Biography X Dance Action Sports Film Festival for Brian Deegan: Disposable Hero

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009 Awarded The Lifetime Achievement Award At The Transworld Motocross Awards In Las Vegas.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1 gold and 5 medals at the X Games rally events.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2nd at the 2012 Global RallyCross Championship.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 4th at the 2013 Global RallyCross Championship.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2009, 2011 and 2013 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Pro Lite Unlimited champion

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011, 2012 and 2014 Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series Pro 2 Unlimited champion

paragraph: BULLET::::- 2011 World Championship race winner in the Pro Light truck class

paragraph: Section::::Racing record.

paragraph: Section::::Racing record.:Complete Global RallyCross Championship results.:Supercar.

paragraph: Race cancelled.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Brian Deegan's official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Metal Mulisha website

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Disposable Hero" website

description: American motorcycle racer

wikidata_label: Brian Deegan

wikipedia_title: Brian Deegan (motorcyclist)


text:
Truman Capote
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1939 New York World's Fair
George Balanchine
South America
Joan McCracken
Broadway
Oklahoma!
The Pirates of Penzance
U.S. Army
World War II
Taormina
Sicily
D. H. Lawrence
beneficiary
cancer
Sagaponack, New York
The Nature Conservancy
Sag Harbor, New York
Bridgehampton, New York
Johnny Carson
Bel Air, Los Angeles
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Brentwood, California
Capote
Bruce Greenwood
Infamous
John Benjamin Hickey
Mary McGrory
The New York Times
Random House
Louisiana State University
McGraw-Hill
American National Theater and Academy

categories: 1992 deaths,People from Sagaponack, New York,20th-century American dramatists and playwrights,Bisexual writers,LGBT writers from the United States,American male dramatists and playwrights,1914 births,20th-century American male writers,Bisexual men,20th-century American novelists,LGBT dramatists and playwrights,Writers from Atlantic City, New Jersey,American male novelists,LGBT people from New Jersey,LGBT novelists,People from Atlantic City, New Jersey

paragraph: Jack Dunphy

paragraph: John Paul "Jack" Dunphy (August 22, 1914 – April 26, 1992) was an American novelist and playwright, and partner of American author Truman Capote.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and dance career.

paragraph: Dunphy was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and was raised in a working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His sister was Gloria Dunphy. He trained in ballet under Catherine Littlefield, danced at the 1939 New York World's Fair, and toured with the George Balanchine company in South America in 1941.

paragraph: He married another Philadelphia dancer, Joan McCracken. They later appeared in the original Broadway production of "Oklahoma!" in 1943, in which McCracken played Sylvie and Dunphy danced as one of the cowboys. Dunphy also danced in "The Prodigal Son", a ballet performed on Broadway in conjunction with "The Pirates of Penzance" in 1942.

paragraph: Dunphy enlisted in the U.S. Army in January 1944 during World War II. During his service, he published his first work, "The Life of a Carrot," in "Short Story" magazine.

paragraph: Section::::Relationship with Capote.

paragraph: When he met Capote in 1948, Dunphy had written a well-received novel, "John Fury", and was just getting over a painful divorce from McCracken. In 1950 the two writers settled in Taormina, Sicily, in a house where the author D. H. Lawrence had once lived. Ten years older than Capote, Dunphy was in many ways Capote’s opposite, as solitary as Capote was exuberantly social. Though they drifted more and more apart in the later years, the couple stayed together until Capote's death.

paragraph: When Capote died in 1984, his will named Dunphy as the chief beneficiary. Eight years later, Dunphy died of cancer in New York, at age 77. Dunphy and Capote had separate houses in Sagaponack, New York. Following their deaths some of the money from their estates was donated to The Nature Conservancy, which used it to acquire nearby Crooked Pond on the Long Island Greenbelt between Sag Harbor, New York and Bridgehampton, New York and their mingled ashes were scattered by the pond where a marker commemorates them. Joanne Carson, the second wife of Johnny Carson, has maintained that she also has some of Capote's ashes (a claim Dunphy denied) which she had kept at her Bel Air, Los Angeles home in the house where Capote died. After the ashes in California were stolen and returned, she bought a crypt for Capote's ashes at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Brentwood, California; although it is unclear if the ashes were ever deposited there.

paragraph: Capote dedicated his short story "One Christmas" to Jack's sister Gloria Dunphy.

paragraph: Section::::Portrayals.

paragraph: Dunphy is portrayed in the film "Capote" (2005) by Bruce Greenwood and in the film "Infamous" (2006) by John Benjamin Hickey.

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: "John Fury" (Harper and Brothers, 1946), is the story of an Irish working-class man who moves from a happy marriage to an unpleasant one in a life of poverty, hard work, and frustration, where his only reprisal is anger. According to the website of Ayer Company Publishers, a reprint publisher of rare and hard to find titles, Mary McGrory praised the book in "The New York Times" at the time of publication:It adds up to a remarkable first novel, warm and strong, its unflinching realism saved from brutality by the author's compassion and restraint ... What Betty Smith did tenderly for Brooklyn, James T. Farrell harshly for Chicago and, most recently, Edward McSorley in his moving "Our Own Kind" for Providence, Dunphy does for Philadelphia. Calmann-Lévy published a French translation in 1949, which is available at the Library of Congress. Arno Press reprinted the English version in 1976.

paragraph: Other Dunphy novels are "Friends and Vague Lovers" (Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952), "Nightmovers" (William Morrow, 1967), "An Honest Woman" (Random House, 1971), "First Wine" (Louisiana State University Press, 1982) and its sequel, "The Murderous McLaughlins", (McGraw-Hill, 1988). In this book, set again in Philadelphia, c. 1917, the same narrator, at age eight, tries to get his errant father Jim to return home to his family.

paragraph: Dunphy also wrote "Dear Genius: A Memoir of My Life with Truman Capote", published by McGraw-Hill in 1987. According to the review at Amazon.com, the book is actually a novel, with the subtitle provided by the publisher; Dunphy had subtitled the manuscript more accurately "A Tribute to Truman Capote".

paragraph: Section::::Plays.

paragraph: Dunphy's plays include:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Light a Penny Candle"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Saturday Night Kid", a play for two men and one woman, which opened at the Provincetown Playhouse on May 15, 1958, for a ten-day run.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Gay Apprentice", a play for four men and five women.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Café Moon", a one-act fantasy for seven men and two women about an aging and disillusioned clerk who drinks his nights away.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Too Close for Comfort", a full-length comedy/drama for three men and one woman about a suicide-prone young man. It played for one performance at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (then known as the Theatre de Lys) on Christopher Street in New York on February 19, 1960, in a double-bill as part of the American National Theater and Academy (ANTA) Matinee Series, along with Dunphy's "The Gay Apprentice".

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Squirrel" a one-act sketch for two men and one woman about a shy office clerk who likes squirrels so much he almost believes he is one. It played at the same theater as part of the ANTA series on April 10, 1962.

paragraph: Performance dates can be found on the Web page for the Lortel Foundation's Internet Off-Broadway Database. The last three plays are available as photocopied manuscripts from Dramatists Play Service.

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Count of Blois
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paragraph: Hugh I, Count of Blois

paragraph: Hugh I, Count of Blois, also known as "Hugh I of Châtillon" (b. 1198c - d. 9 April 1248) was Count of Blois from 1230 to 1241, and Count of Saint Pol (as Hugh V) from 1226 to 1248.

paragraph: Hugh was son of Gaucher III of Châtillon and Elisabeth (1180–1212), daughter of Hugo IV, Count of Saint-Pol. He married Agnes of Bar-le-Duc, daughter of Thibaut I of Bar-le-Duc and Hermesend of Bar-sur-Seine, in 1216. By 1225, Agnes was dead and Hugh married Marie.

paragraph: In 1226, Hugh married Marie of Avesnes, daughter of Walter II of Avesnes and Margaret of Blois. They had 5 children:

paragraph: BULLET::::1. John I (d. 1280), Count of Blois

paragraph: BULLET::::2. Guy III (d. 1289), Count of Saint Pol

paragraph: BULLET::::3. Gaucher IV (d. 1261), lord of Chatillon, Crécy and Crèvecœur. His son was: Gaucher V de Châtillon.

paragraph: BULLET::::4. Hugh (d. 1255)

paragraph: BULLET::::5. Basile (d. 1280), became Abbess of Notre Dame du Val in 1248

paragraph: Through his marriage Hugh became the first count of Blois from the house of Châtillon. It marked the end of the first dynasty of Blois that lasted over 400 years. After the death of Marie, Hugh married Mahaut, sister of Baldwin III, Count of Guînes.

paragraph: In 1226 the Cisterian nunnery Pont-aux-Dames in Couilly was founded by Hugh. Later Hugh, with the assistance of Philip Mécringes, founded a Cistercian nunnery at Troissy called "L'Amour-Dieu" in 1232.

paragraph: Hugh intended to follow the pious king Louis IX when he started on the Seventh Crusade, but he died in 1248.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Counts of Blois

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Hugo I de Chatillon

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