Rosemarie Koczy, 68, who survived a childhood in German concentration camps and later spent years creating searing art infused with images of Holocaust victims, died from breast cancer Dec. 12, 2007.
Her works have been gaining increasing stature, despite her status as an art world “outsider,” that is, someone who was not believed to be formally trained in art and who did not travel in art world circles. Her art, including tapestries and pen-and-ink drawings, has been shown in the U.S., Japan and Europe. (more…)
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Julius Harry “Jack” Kuney, 88, U.S., a pioneering TV producer, died Nov. 7, 2007, in Bradenton, Fla. The Chicago native produced plays such as “Waiting for Godot, and programs with Mel Brooks, Burgess Meredith, and Zero Mostel, among others. A satirical program he produced written by Woody Allen was pulled just before it aired by Public Broadcasting Service in 1971 because it was deemed too political.
Kuney was born in Chicago on July 24,1919. Kuney’s first wife, the former Francine Apfelbaum, a dancer known professionally as Francine Ames, died in 1997. He is survived by his second wife, Margaret Ferren Kuney; a son, Scott, of West Nyack, N.Y., his daughter, Jo Ellen Kuney, and two grandchildren. (more…)
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