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Aspen Institute Summer Celebration

16th Annual Summer Celebration at the Aspen Institute: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Goethe Convocation, and the Walter and Elizabeth Paepcke Family

Date : Saturday, August 8, 20095:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Location : Aspen Meadows, Doerr-Hosier Center Aspen, Colorado

Dinner honoree will be Lester Crown, recipient of the first Walter Paepcke Memorial Award for the person who best exemplifies the spirit of the founder of the Aspen Institute.

The evening’s festivities will begin with a concert by renowned legendary artist Jessye Norman, in the Benedict Music tent at 5:00 p.m. She will perform pieces from her “American Masters” program. The American Masters program consists of music by Bernstein, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Ellington, Gershwin, Eubie Blake, and Scott Joplin.

The “Paepcke Necklace”, a one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry designed and donated by Ariane Zurcher, a Paepcke granddaughter, will be auctioned off at the dinner.

The Summer Celebration reception and dinner will follow the concert at the Doerr-Hosier Center. Dinner co-chairs are Jessica and Henry Catto, and David and Julia Koch. Honorary co-chairs are Antonia Paepcke DuBrul, and Paula Paepcke Zurcher.

Benefactor level tickets are $1500 per person, or Patron level tickets are $500 per person. Tables of ten are available for $25,000 or $15,000. For Summer Celebration tickets (which include a ticket to the concert prior to the dinner), please contact Becky Ward, 970-544-7925 or Visit www.aspeninstitute.org.
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Art Scene

Herbert Bayer Exhibition at David Floria Gallery

David Floria Gallery is proud to announce the opening of its first exhibition of paintings, sculptures and prints by the internationally known Austrian born artist Herbert Bayer, (1900-1985). The exhibition consists of 20 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints that range from 1923 to 1980. The three sculptures in the exhibition are recent posthumus fabrications from original lifetime maquettes.

Herbert Bayer was born in Linz, Austria, in 1900. He apprenticed to a local architect at the age of 19 before being accepted into the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1921. There he studied with modern masters including Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Bayer emigrated to the United States in 1938, settling first in New York. He then moved to Aspen, Colorado, in 1946 after being hired by Walter Paepke, of the Container Corporation of America, to be the Artist in Residence at the new Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. While at the Aspen Institute,, Bayer designed new buildings, earthworks and graphics. He also pursued his own work in painting, printmaking, and sculpture.

Herbert Bayer was well known for his design of an all lower case type face and his influential Surrealist photography and painting, but less so for his prolific body of geometric abstract paintings, sculpture and prints. He exemplified the Bauhaus ideal of being a master of all the visual arts, both applied and fine, drawing no hierarchical distinctions between them. Bayer’s works are represented in numerous important public collections in Europe and the United States. The Herbert Bayer Archive is housed at the Denver Art Museum. There is a major retrospective currently on view at the Lintos Museum in Linz, Austria.

DAVID FLORIA GALLERY
525 E Cooper Ave
Aspen, Colorado 81611
970-544-5705
www.davidfloriagallery.com

Eating Out

Wienerstube Restaurant Summer Menu

Harald Neuweg, South Florida’s renowned Austrian Chef took over the Sole Ownership of the Wienerstube Restaurant in Aspen, Colorado. Harald has always dreamed of opening an Austrian restaurant in the Rocky Mountains.

Neuweg, who originally hails from St. Agatha in upper-Austria, has been a Miami resident for the past 28 years, and as of Oct 1st, 2008, he became one of Aspen’s newest residents and began the ownership and oversight of Aspen’s Wienerstube Restaurant.

Price reduced Summer Menu

$ 6.95 Daily Breakfast Special

$ 10.95 Daily Lunch Special

$ 25 Sampler Dinner Menu

Off - Season Opening Hours:

Breakfast 7.30 to 11am, daily

Lunch 11am to 2.30pm, daily

Dinner Wed. to Sun. 5-10pm

“Hendl Tag” Fresh oven roasted chicken Served every Thursday from 5 to 9pm

Wiener Brathendl ½ Roasted Chicken $12.50

Choice of side: roasted potato, rice, sauerkraut, potato Salad, red cabbage, cucumber salad or mixed greens!

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Shopping

Isberian Rug Company

ISBERIAN RUG COMPANY IS DOING ITS PART TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT

As an environmentally responsible company we are working to reduce our carbon footprint by moving away from paper communication, and instead are using emails to contact our customers. This small step actually makes a big difference for the environment because Isberian Rug Company alone will be saving over 1,000 pounds of paper per year!

The Isberian family has been in the rug trade for over 100 years. This lifelong passion spans five generations and is why we can truly say that we are Colorado’s rug experts. From our one-of-a-kind custom projects to our master repair and restoration service, we are experts in the art of rugs. Located in the heart of down town Aspen and Basalt, our family has been closely connected throughout the Roaring Fork Valley community for many years.

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