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Witz
Witz may refer to: People * Bob Witz (1934–2021), American artist * Chaim Witz (born 1949), birth name of Gene Simmons, American musician, band member of Kiss * Dan Witz (born 1957), Brooklyn-based street artist and realist painter * Emanuel Witz (1717–1797), Swiss painter * Konrad Witz, (c. 1400–1445), German painter * Laurent Witz Laurent Witz (born 21 November 1975) is a French film maker. Witz and fellow producer Alexandre Espigares won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for the 2013 film ''Mr Hublot'' at the 86th Academy Awards. Decorations * Ordre des Arts ..., filmmaker * Sergio Witz Rodríguez (born 1962), Mexican poet Geography * Saint-Witz, commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France * Stadion in der Witz, stadium in Mainz-Kastel, Wiesbaden, Germany Other uses * ''Witz'' (novel), novel by Joshua Cohen * Kwik Witz, syndicated comedy program * Witz (וויץ) is Yiddish for "joke" * WITZ (AM), a radio station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Witz
Dan Witz (born 1957) is a Brooklyn, New York City, NY based street artist and realist painter. He grew up in Chicago, IL, and graduated in 1981 from Cooper Union, on New York City's Lower East Side. Witz, consistently active since the late 1970s, is one of the pioneers of the street art movement. Dan Witz's paintings have been shown in galleries throughout the US and Europe. In June 2010 a monograph, "Dan Witz. In Plain View. 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise", was published by Ginkgo press. Career Dan Witz received a National Endowment of the Arts grant, in 1983, and fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts, in 1992 and 2000 In 1983 Dan Witz's first book, "The Birds of Manhattan" was published by Skinny Books. His second book, In Plain View, was released in June 2010, by Gingko Press. In September 2010, Gingko Press will release "Hummingbirds, 2011". The work of Dan Witz has appeared in ''Juxtapoz'', ''Time (magazine), Time'', ''Arts Magazine'', ''New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Witz
Konrad Witz (ca.1400/1410 – winter 1445/spring 1446) was a German and Swiss painter, active mainly in Basel. Life He was born probably in Rottweil, Germany. In 1434 he entered the painters’ guild in Basel, where he worked most of his life. On 10 January 1435 he acquired Basel citizenship. Sometime afterward he married Ursula Treyger, a niece of the painter Nikolaus Ruesch. Witz is recorded as dead in a document of 1446. Works His 1444 panel ''The Miraculous Draft of Fishes (Witz), The Miraculous Draft of Fishes'' (a portion of a lost altarpiece) has been credited as the earliest extant faithful portrayal of a landscape in European art history, being based on observation of real topographical features.Borchert, Till-Holger. ''Van Eyck to Dürer: The Influence of Early Netherlandish Painting on European Art, 1430–1530''. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. 58. Witz is most famous for painting three altarpieces, all of which survive only partially. The earliest is the ' of abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Witz
Saint-Witz () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department in Île-de-France in northern France. Geography Climate Saint-Witz has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfb''). The average annual temperature in Saint-Witz is . The average annual rainfall is with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Saint-Witz was on 25 July 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 7 January 2009. Population Education Public secondary schools: * Collège Françoise Dolto, a public junior high school serving Saint-Witz, is in Marly-la-Ville. * Saint-Witz has one public senior high school: Lycée Léonard de Vinci. Collège Institut Paul Ricoeur/ Lycée Institut Paul RICOEUR is in nearby Louvres. Institut Saint-Dominique, a private Catholic preschool through senior high, is in nearby Mortefontaine, Oise. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Witz
Emanuel Witz (27 June 1717 – 11 December 1797) was a Swiss painter, born in Biel. Witz was inspired by his brother (a sculptor) to apply himself to drawing. He subsequently received drawing lessons from Johann Rudolf Huber in Bern. In 1738, he moved to Paris where he continued his education under instructions of the painter Louis Galloche. He made friends with Edmé Bouchardon, François Boucher, Pierre-Jacques Cazes, Charles Joseph Natoire and Charles André van Loo. Afterwards he worked in Spain and Portugal as a portrait painter, historical painter and genre painter. Soon after his arrival, he got into difficulties and returned to Biel Biel/Bienne (official bilingual wording; German language, German: ''Biel'' ; French language, French: ''Bienne'' ; Bernese German, locally ; ; ; ) is a bilingual city in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. With over 55,000 residents, it is the ... in the 1760s. References External links * Werke von Emanuel Witz in der Kunstsammlung Biel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Witz
Robert A. Witz (September 9, 1934 – February 23, 2021) was an American artist, poet and writer. He was born in Tomah, Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1959. He was founder and editor of the literary arts magazine, APPEARANCES. Some of his correspondences with Artforum magazine were published by editor Robert Pincus-Witten Robert Pincus-Witten (April 5, 1935 – January 28, 2018) was an American art critic, curator and Art history, art historian. Biography Born in New York City, Pincus-Witten earned his undergraduate degree at Cooper Union, in New York City in 1956 ... along with his work "The Work Ethic a Drawing" under the title. Witz died in Tomah on February 23, 2021, at the age of 86. References 1934 births 2021 deaths Artists from Wisconsin People from Tomah, Wisconsin {{US-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witz (novel)
Witz is a novel by Joshua Cohen. Plot summary In ''Witz'', Joshua Cohen calls all religious Jews "Affiliated". After the sabbath meal a week before Christmas, Benjamin is born to Israel and Hanna Israelien in Joysey, the first son after 12 girls. This winter is particularly hard and in fact persists year round. Benjamin is born full grown (by a method explored by Flann O'Brien in ''At Swim-Two-Birds''), with a beard and glasses. His foreskin continually sheds itself and grows back. Already too big for his father's shirts, he takes to his mother's maternity robes. On Christmas Eve, all of the Affiliated die except first-born sons. The Israelien's maid, Wanda, drives Benjamin down to Florida to live with his grandfather, Isaac, who is Unaffiliated. Meanwhile, a cabal of government operatives are quarantining all of the first-borns on Ellis Island, now called "The Garden" (incorporated), capitalized with the property of the dead. A week later, they come for Benjamin. Isaac dies fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Witz
Laurent Witz (born 21 November 1975) is a French film maker. Witz and fellow producer Alexandre Espigares won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for the 2013 film ''Mr Hublot'' at the 86th Academy Awards. Decorations * Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (2016) References External links * French film producers Directors of Best Animated Short Academy Award winners Living people 1975 births Place of birth missing (living people) Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres {{Film-producer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaim Witz
Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz; ; born August 25, 1949) also known by his stage persona "The Demon", is an Israeli-born American musician. He was the bassist and co-lead singer of the hard rock band Kiss, which he co-founded with Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss in the early 1970s until their retirement in 2023. Simmons was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as a member of Kiss. Early life and education Simmons was born Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949, at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish refugees from Hungary. His mother, Flóra Kovács (later Florence Klein then Lubowski) (1925–2018) was born in Jánd, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary, and survived internment in Nazi concentration camps from November 1944 to her liberation from the Mauthausen camp in Austria on May 5, 1945. She and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust. Simmons' father, Ferenc "Feri" Yehiel Witz (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Witz
Sergio Witz Rodríguez (born 1962 in Campeche, Campeche) is a Mexican poet. His literary work has been recognized by Mexico's National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA), a government agency that promotes the arts and culture by funding promising talents. Witz was the winner of the 1994 Tabasco Poetry Prize. He is the author of "Como hierba ardiente," "Ciudad de paso" and "Mi odio por los barcos." The opinion has been expressed that his writing follows the tradition of the "poètes maudits" such as Charles Baudelaire in France and Charles Bukowski in the United States. In 2002, he published a brief poem titled "La patria entre mierda" ("The Motherland among the Shit"), in which he expressed a desire to use the flag of Mexico as lavatory paper. Because of the controversy caused by this poem, the Attorney General decided to proceed with a prosecution and filed federal charges against Witz for the crime of "insulting national symbols." An amparo relief filing he lodged with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stadion In Der Witz
The Stadion in der Witz is a stadium in Mainz-Kastel, Wiesbaden, Germany, with a capacity of 5,000. It is currently used for football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... matches and is the home ground of FVgg Kastel 06. References Football venues in Germany Sport in Wiesbaden Buildings and structures in Wiesbaden Sports venues in Hesse {{Hesse-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwik Witz
Kwik Witz is an American syndicated comedy program which aired in syndication, mainly on numerous NBC affiliate stations—usually in the time-slot following ''Saturday Night Live''. The show originated from the NBC Tower studios of WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illinois and was produced by Beau & Arrow Productions. The show shared studio space with ''The Jenny Jones Show'', which was located immediately across from ''The Jerry Springer Show'' studio. Format An improvisational comedy, it featured two teams of two performers competing against each other. The show had a live audience which voted to select the winner at the end of the sketch (usually four in a given program), with teams earning points based on the percentage of votes they got in each sketch. The winning team was given a prize brought by the losing team – a token gift usually of more comedic value than monetary. Performers were scouted from various improvisational comedy and sketch comedy troupes. Comedians Wayne Brady—fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
