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French genre, `kind', `type' painting scenes
from everyday life. Genre paintings were
enormously popular in the Netherlands and
Flanders in the 17th century (Vermeer, de
Hooch, and Brouwer were great exponents). The
term `genre' is also used more broadly to
mean a category in the arts, such as
landscape painting, or literary forms, such
as the detective novel.
Genscher
Hans-Dietrich 1927- . German politician,
chair of the West German Free Democratic
Party (FDP) 1974-85, foreign minister from
1974. Born in Halle, East Germany, Genscher
settled in West Germany 1952. He served as
interior minister 1969-74 and then as foreign
minister, committed to Ostpolitik and
European cooperation. As FDP leader, Genscher
masterminded the party's switch of allegiance
from the Social Democratic Party to the
Christian Democratic Union, which resulted in
the downfall of the Helmut Schmidt government
1982.