International studio (15.1901/1902(1902))

Studio- Talk

“ANTWERP: RETURNING FROM A WALK IN 1530”

(See Antwerp Studio- 7a/k)

BY KAREI. BOON

and lace-making have been very successfully revived.
Special mention must be made of the works of
broken Branting, president of the association
“ Handarbetet’s Vanner,” of Sofia Gisberg, Maria
Sjostrom, Gustav Wennerberg, and the painter
Carl Larsson.

Besides these productions there have been ex-
hibited in the Lichthof of the Kunstgewerbe-
museum some works by Hermann Obrist. Avoid-
ing every illogical detail, Obrist strives, in his series
of fountain designs, to produce effects by practical
forms and lines, and often discovers quite sur-
prisingly simple and pleasant solutions of problems.
The works of Obrist, amongst which are to be
found gravestones, urns, and other sculptured
objects, are evidences of the spirit of a time which
desires to rise from the effeminacy of former epochs
to vigorous activity. His creations may be men-
tioned as noteworthy guides to a future style.

The Berlin painter, Lesser Ury, has had an
exhibition in the Kunst Salon of E. Schulte. His
works proclaim a remarkably lively and flexible
talent without showing any particular artistic in-
dividuality. He sees landscape in fantastically

brilliant colours, and his skill permits him to
imitate the boldest experiments of the boldest
innovators. I cannot endorse the extravagant

praise that has been meted out to this artist’s
work by many critics.

The competition for a monument to Richard
Wagner at Berlin has not produced altogether
happy results, and it is to be hoped that Gustav
Eberlein’s design, which received the first prize,
will not be carried out. L. K.

RIO DE JANEIRO.—The annual Fine
Arts Exhibition was, as usual, opened
on the 1st September, and from the
relatively large numbers of works sent
in by the artists, as well as from the excellence of
a great number of them, it was one of the best of
the late years, and showed that in spite of the
economical crisis which we are passing through,
and which has left its impression upon all classes
alike, our artists have valiantly striven on and
have produced fine paintings, the collection of
which combined to make a very interesting exhibi-
tion. As usual, Henrique Bernardelli’s exhibits
were numerous and good. His principal work
this year was a genre painting representing a
musical party at the palace of King D. Joao the
Sixth, at the beginning of last century. Bernardelli
showed also Bathers, a graceful scene in old Rome ;
the portrait of the artist, a very vigorous bit of
painting ; a portrait of Augusto Girardet, the medal-

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