Example sentences for: georg

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  • Designed for Frederick the Great by Georg von Knobelsdorff, the Neuer Flügel (new wing, also the east wing) subtly combines dignified late-Baroque façades with exuberant rococo interiors.

  • Included here are such masterpieces as Hans Holbein’s portrait of Georg Gisze (1532); the rather amusing The Fountain of Youth (1546) by Lucas Cranach the Elder; Van Eyck’s Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini (1440); Van Dyck’s portraits of a Genoese couple (1626); Vermeer’s study, Young Lady with a Pearl Necklace (1664) and, among one of the largest Rembrandt collections in the world, a portrait of the artist’s second wife, Hendrickje Stoffels (1659).

  • The paintings of Otto Dix, Georg Grosz, and Max Beckmann were brutally realist, and the dissonance of the times was aptly captured by the atonal music composed by Arnold Schönberg and his pupil Alban Berg.

  • An ohm is a unit of electrical resistance (named for the German physicist, Georg Simon Ohm), and a mho is a unit of conductivity of a body whose resistance is one ohm.

  • Many years before the New York “happenings” of the 1960s, Berlin Dadaists were organizing races between a sewing machine and a typewriter, with writer Walter Mehring and artist Georg Grosz as jockeys.


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