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province of it his own.
He was painter, etcher,
lithographer, carver, mo-
saic worker, decorative
artist in one, bringing to
his work in each of these
branches a noble devotion
to art for its own sake,
and a wealth of testhetic
sensitiveness and imagina-
tive conception. Those
who have had the pleasure
of studying his wall-paint-
ings in St. George’s Con-
vent at Stein on the Rhine,
his well-known Fresque de

“AFTER RAIN”: COLOUR PRINT

of the artist’s achievements in decorative and applied
art. Like his master, Arnold Boecklin, Hans
Sandreuter was a prodigious worker. Urged on by
a desire to realise as completely as possible his
artistic ideal, it seemed as though he would take
the kingdom of art by force and make every

l Abbaye des dwrgerons at
Basel, the varied and
beautiful decorative work
in his late home at
mosaics wrhich adorn the
Zurich, can entertain no
doubt as to his eminent gifts as a decorative artist
and to the permanent contributions he made in
this branch to Swiss national art. We have already
had occasion to refer, in the pages of The Studio

BY HENRIETTE HAHN

Riehen, or the fine
National Museum at

“ LA VALLEE DE LA MAGGIA

BY HANS SANDREUTER