International studio (16.1902)

Studio-Talk


hammer, who first chose
Dachau for themselves and
their pupils as the ideal
home wherein to develop
their artistic tendencies.
Of thethree painters named,
Ludwig Dill, for years the
president of the Munich
Secession, has left his late
sphere of action, having
been called to the Academy
of Karlsruhe ; Arthur Lang'
hammer died suddenly last
summer; and thus there
remains only Adolf Hoelzel
at Dachau, and he gives
promise of transmitting the
manner of the “ New
Dachauer ” school (as the
three friends called then
group), having gathered
round him a large number
of pupils, both men and
LANDSCAPE BY E. STEPI’ES women

Among the most gifted
and groups of the Munich school, being however of his women pupils is the landscape painter
every time treated in a different manner, according Therese Weber, of one of whose works a repr°"
to the art tendency prevail-
ing at the moment. Thus,
the painters in the sixth
and seventh decades of the
nineteenth century gave
those landscapes a sombre
colouring, and planted in
the plain under a clouded
sky, the well-known brown
tree of the old landscape
pattern ; likewise, when the
flein-air movement had
begun its victorious career,
they observed the play of
bright light on the wide
expanse. Now that we
have learned to value and
to create paintings with
harmonies of quiet, well-
considered tones, this dis-
trict has been found to
contain an inexhaustible
store of new and delightful
motifs. It was the three
artists, Ludwig Dill, Adolf
Hoelzel, and Arthur Lang-
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