Thursday, March 3, 2011

Eyes Itching At Night

The eye, and the cat: A small tribute to John Gutmann

John Gutmann - That Inward Eye , 1940
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John Gutmann - Title unknown
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John Gutmann learned painting from Breslau to Otto Müller, and exhibited in Berlin in 1931. In 1933, when he had to emigrate to San Francisco, bought a Rolleiflex . Then he used .

can read an article in the excellent Weimar, and explore the official website, where you can see clips from the film by Jane Levy Reed Gutmann, My Eyes Were fresh.

And "That inward eye ", of course, is a quote from the poem that everyone knows and everyone has forgotten .