International studio (18.1902/1903)

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BYRICHARDFRIESE

specia! probiem, as did aiso the juries of the
Diisseldorf, Karisruhe, Munich, and all the rest of
his sumtner's German exhibitions.

The room of the seceded Secessionists, how-
ever, has succeeded best—the Segantini room at
Karlsruhe perhaps excepted—in eiiminating as
far as possibie every trace of the mereiy accidentai
in hanging. One or two frames of new make and
modern giiding are perhaps just a trifie "ioud."
The amusing part of the whoie thing to the quiet
oniooker is, however, that the ever-combated acci-
dentai (das Zufaiiige) makes its presence felt, in spite
of every precautionary measure. To be sure, a
rnere accident has rendered this exhibition within
an exhibition M ar<r/,f.H'a) characteristic of
the contrast of town and country life in the
Fatherland. To a certain extent the exhibition is
what in Engiand would resuit in a cockney's im-
pressions of country iife. In Otto H. Engei's
work this impression is strongest. He never quite
succeeds in making you forget that he never iived
the life of the peopie to whom you are introduced

by his brush. Stiii, there is the reaiity of true and
nobie iiving in his work. Max Schlichting wisely
shuns the attempt of interpreting the ways of the
country folks to town-bred men and women.
He boidiy shows the town-bred people in the
attempt to iive their natural iives at their favourite
seaside resorts, or in their winter haunts, such as
the Metropoltheater. Paul Hoeniger's Zw I%M<r/$-
appears to those who studied the earlier work
of this faithful interpreter of Berlin life the ripened
fruit of much study—a something deeper and
ciearer than the mere casual cleverness of super-
hciai observation. Hans Looschen is not essen-
tiaily a Berliner ; he has made a study of Nature
to gain as it were an entrance into fairyiand.
A W<r/wrM^<y^ a mask of his, is hung below
a a forest sorceress, by Miss Woifthorn,
and involuntarily provokes a strong contrast of the
masculine and feminine in art. Miss Wolfthorn
has succeeded in hitting off the essentials of the
irritating restlessness, the elements of the demon
in modern womankind, in quite a masterful way.
But somehow, in spite of this interesting way of
solving a problem essential to town life, there is,
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