International studio (22.1904)

PORTRAIT OF HIMSELF BY WALTER HAMPEL
A NTWERP.— Breaking away from the
/ \ precedent of former years, the artists of
A \ Antwerp seem this year to be anxious
^ to abstain from organising individual
exhibitions. The market for modern pictures is
so bad that painters shrink from the rather heavy
expenses incidental to shows of this sort. This
being so, the courage shown by a woman-artist is
the more worthy of admiration. I refer to Madame
Kernkamp, who recently displayed a large series
of pictures in the Salle Verlat, and scored a
genuine success. This lady, who has been painting
no more than four or five years, is, indeed, admir-
ably gifted in many directions—landscape, sea-
scape, still-life, and interiors. Her personality has
not yet had time to reveal itself prominently, but
it asserts itself in the pictures done during the past
two years ; in her many studies of heather-covered
downs, in her underwoods of the Campine ot

Antwerp, in a most interesting interpre-
tation of the light falling on a peasant's
dwelling, and in several sunsets. In
these pictures she strives to render
the breathing sense of things, without
ignoring their material reality. Let me
especially note her quite a recent
work, truly original in its
It is extremely fine and delicate in
its graduated colouring. Henceforth
Madame Kernkamp takes rank among
those young artists whose names we
must remember.

At the Cercle Artistique Royal, in


WEDDING GOBLET IN SILVER
DESIGNED BY OTTO LOHR
EXECUTED BY EDUARD STEINICKEN

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