International studio (18.1902/1903)

beauties. He is a realist, sees nature in a healthy
way, and interprets it without formulas; his paiette
is sober, pure in tones, with marked intensities of
coiour. Expressive, frank, intimate and commu-
nicative, he is at once a humanist, a poet, and a
psychoiogist. His technique is based on well-tested
principies, on the iogic of classicism deduced from
the assiduous study of the oid Fiemish masters.

Albert Lynch is a member of the Societd des
Artistes Frangais, a Knight of the Legion of
Honour, and in the iast great Internationai
" Concours de Peinture" at the Exhibition in


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Paris he obtained the Medal of Honour in the
American Section. F. L.
H ^ ERLIN.—Germans have ever been noted
] ^ for their tendency to split up into
H factions, and a spirit of breaking from
^ parties into particies is so extensiveiy
at work that in matters political the unity of
Engiish party-spirit is often held up as a model by
superiors to the citizens of the Fatherland. In
matters artistic we hnd this self-same readiness to
drift away from common objects of interest. The
mere outward observer is, in cases of this kind,
generally annoyed at each new artists' squabbie;
it is troubiesome to try and remember another
series of names and to catch the current
phrases of some new artistic programme.
Sorne feeling of this kind was aiive among
the art connoisseurs of West Berlin, when in
the course of last winter there arose a kind
of secession from the Secession. It was quite
enough to have to visit and remember a
big oihcial Berlin Exhibition, a Secession, and
haif-a-dozen Kunst-Salons ! Take into the
bargain the whoie of the museums and you
might reasonabiy consider the two miiiions of
Berliners sufficiently supplied with artistic
interest, with materiai for education in art,
that famous " ILunsterziehung," which is caus-
ing so much stir! Nevertheiess, there was
this group of discontented artists who made
Carl Langhammer their speaker. They accused
the Great Berliner, the ofhcial exhibition, ot
bad hanging, the Secession of favouritism to
outlanders, and, above all, of making the
public believe that every single Manet is
a good Manet, whereas to the real con-
noisseur there exists a difference between a
good Manet and a bad one, between a Lieber-
mann that was induenced by Israels, and a
Liebermann of the day when that chieftain of
Berlin art chose to take Manet for a guide;
that they tried to make people forget it
was not sufhcient for Leistikow to be some-
times a real poet and sometimes rather a dry
schoolmaster, etc. Altogether, the squabble
resulted in this: that the jury of the Grosse
Berliner Kunstaustellung gave the seceded
Secessionists leave to have a jury of their
own and do their own hanging in a large room
allotted to them. The result is doubtless most
interesting as far as the question of hanging
goes, notwithstanding the fact that the jury
of the Grosse Berliner made hanging their