When faced with a detective problem like this it is always worth trying a search engine like Alta Vista, <www.altavista.com>, making sure that you surround the name with quotation marks thus "Karl Bohrmann". In this case you will find about 25 pages mainly in German which may relate to the person in question. Cut and paste the following code to see what happens:
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&kl=XX&stype=stext&q=%22Karl+Bohrmann&search.x=22&search.y=8
You will find in this case that the references will be mainly in German, but Alta Vista has access to a translation engine called Babelweb and if you click <translate> against any particular reference it will be translated into passable English.
Other search engines like Hotbot < http://www.hotbot.com > are good if you have a number of key words or phrases that may distinguish one possible candidate from another.
Antony Anderson
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From: Margaret Bullock[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 17 August 1999 02:47
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Karl Bohrmann
A woman has recently contacted the museum where I work asking for
information on the German printmaker, Karl Bohrmann. The most I have been
able to find in all the "usual suspect" indexes and directories is that he
was born in Germany in 1928. This lady is simply interested in some basic
biograpy for this artist--she owns one of his works and would like to know
more. Can anyone out there help point me to some information on this
artist? I just know someone is writing a dissertation or something on him,
but is as yet unpublished. Thank you so much for your help.
Margaret Bullock
Curatorial Assistant
Portland Art Museum (Oregon)
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