Studio: international art (89.1925)

VIENNA—REVIEWS

his studies at the Vienna Academy he went
to London, where he gained much practical
experience in the workshops of Mr. Vyon.
This was in 1898. His work shows distinc-
tive artistic personality, it is always inter-
esting, has vitality and freedom from con-
ventionality. 0 a 0 a a
Other distinguished Austrian medallists
are Stefan Schwartz, who gained name and
fame for his medal portraits, executed in
pousse, which were always of a fine quality ;
Hartig, a realist, true to nature, but always
sincere and personal in his treatment;
O. Thiede, whose speciality was cast
medals. He is a stylist through and
through, but always under right control;
Michael Six chooses chiefly religious sub-
jects : his work has distinctive power,
refinement and religious sentiment; R.
Placht has many characteristics in com-
mon with Hartig, but his manipulation and
personal note are far more delicate and
expressive ; Rudolf Marshall; J. Tauten-
hayn, son of the great teacher; Perl;
Trautzl; Ernstorfer—all of them medal-
lists of note in their special subjects. Of
the younger generation two men stand
forward, Richard Ruepp, a resourceful,
capable artist, frank and convincing, who

"ST. GEORGE." MEDAL
BY RUDOLF SCHMIDT

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DR. IGNAZ SEIPEL." MEDAL
BY RICHARD PLACHT

never outsteps the bounds of good taste,
and Rudolf Schmidt, whose efforts show
individuality in a certain simplicity of
form by which he achieves classical effects.
He is of the true Viennese school, one
who has made his way upward by purely
artistic means, spite of many difficulties and
deprivations besetting his way. 0 0

A. S. L.

REVIEWS

Richard Parkes Bonington : His Life
and Work. By A. Dubuisson. Transla-
tion and Annotations by C. E. Hughes.
With seventeen Illustrations in colour
and over seventy in black and white.
(John Lane.) 63s. net. This admirable
volume affords a binocular view of one of
the least known and most interesting of
the English painters in both oil and water-
colour. As the whole of Bonington's
short artistic life was passed in France
we have heard very little about it hitherto,
though we have always longed to hear
more. M. Dubuisson now tells us every-
thing, and to this very valuable work
Mr. Hughes appends, in the modest form
of occasional notes, the results of his own
studies and researches in England, together
with complete lists of works ; so that we
have, as it were, a stereoscopic vision
through a French and an English lens, of
an artist who actually was a link between
the two schools. From M. Dubuisson we