International studio (14.1901)

Studio-Talk

In the Hospital Chapel some new decoration
has just been erected, so commonplace and so
devoid of interest as to be unworthy of description.
When clever and capable decorative artists exist,
it is a pity that their services are not requisitioned
for work of this kind.

The jury of selection for the Venice Inter-
national Exhibition has recently inspected a large
number of works sent in for acceptance. The
members of the jury were the painters Previati and
Fragiacomo, the sculptors Butti and Trentacoste,
and the art critic Primo Levi. Among the painters
whose works have been accepted are Borgo Manieri,
Bertani, Belloni, Vezetti, Macchiati, Castelli,
Chiesa, Cavaleri, Carozzi, Grubicy, Longoni, and
Quarantelli; while the successful sculptors are
Bialetti and Quadrelli. U. M. de V.

BERLIN.—The latter part of the winter art
season produced nothing remarkable.
It is to be regretted that the Fritz
Gurlitt Art Gallery, wherein for years
past so many rising artists have made their first
appearance, will shortly close its portals. The
proprietor, Herr Waldecker, intends to confine
himself for the future to the publication of

engravings. Despite the large number of show-
rooms in Berlin, the lack of art of the highest
order, such as we generally see at the Gurlitt
Gallery, is conspicuous. The exhibitions at

Schulte’s Salon are merely the reflections of the
fashion of the moment, and, artistically, count for
little. Here and there we find a genuine work
of art, but it has to be picked out, as it were, from
a rubbish heap. Among the worthier exhibitors at
Schulte’s are several members of the Hamburg Art

Club—Ernst Eitner,
Artur lilies, Siebelist,
and Schaper.

An exhibition of
modern portraits, the
proceeds of which are
to be devoted to charity,
was opened in April in
the Kiinstlerhaus. The
general level was dis-
tinctly low, but was re-
deemed by contributions
from Bocklin, Lieber-
mann, Leibl, Stauffer-
Bern, Dora Hitz, Anders
Zorn, Rysselberghe, and
Lesser Ury.

The National Gallery
is to be congratulated
on its exhibition of the
Konigs collection. Felix
Konigs, who was a
banker, died last year at
Berlin. He came of a
Rhineland stock, and
during the last sixteen
years of his life had
collected a very valuable
gallery of paintings and
sculptures by modern
artists. The catalogue
of the exhibition in-
cluded thirty-four works
of sculpture and seventy

BY PROFESSOR J. KASTNER AND HIS PUPILS
(See Prague Studio- Talk)

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