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            <p>I have known <rs ref="#tillich_person_id__5092" type="person">Dr. Anita ORIENTER</rs>
               for more than 20 years and do consider her as an extraordinary gifted and intelligent
               personality. She graduated summa cum laude having written an excellent theses on
                  <q>The Evolution from Medieval to Renaissance Art</q>. Her career confirmed her
               promising studies. As a painter she made several one man's shows and taught
               History of Art and Painting in several colleges in <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__1540" type="place">Braail</rs> and <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__219" type="place">Italy</rs>. Her great artistic talent, her pleasant personality – she has a
               special talent to deal with young people – her ample experience in teaching combined
               with her knowledge of languages (French, German, Italian, Portuguese) will enable her
               to collaborate efficiently with American institutions of higher learning.</p>
            <p>Some weeks ago she has completed a portrait of myself which shows her great artistic
               talent and which has been received with enthusiasm by all my friends. I have seen
               many of her paintings which impressed me very much. Specialized in restoration she
               asked me to let her restore a completely ruined picture I own which had been declared
               unrestorable by one of the official restorers of <rs ref="#tillich_place_id__319" type="place">New York</rs> and the result of her work seems to me almost
               miraculous.</p>
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