International studio (23.1904)

Studio- Talk



TOTTERY

BY HERMANN SEIDLER

had the advantage of a number of sittings from
the late Professor.
MOSCOW'.—The annual exhibilion of the
Muscovite Society of Artists took place,
as usual, at Moscow, in the recent
season of Lent, and although it cannot
certainly be claimed that any of its members are
geniuses of the first rank, they are one and all
earnest, conscientious workers, so that the general
level of excellence of the exhibits was a high one.

There were, as usual, a considerable number of
portraits, most of them life-size, including some in
red crayon and charcoal by V. Mechkoff, others in
oil by V. Komaroff, but none of them were par-
ticularly noteworthy or in any way equal to the
Head of a Woman by Borissoff-Monsatoff, which
was charming alike in pose, in colouring, and in
expression.
The various landscapes, with figures, of F.
Rerberg, with their well-interpreted atmospheric
effects and happy rendering of sunlight, deserve
special notice; as do also the open-air studies
of A. Yasinski, who is as yet not so well known

as he deserves to be. His paintings, which are
chiefly pure landscape, are remarkable alike for
their poetic feeling and technical skill, especially
those called Evening and After the Storm. Some
pleasing landscapes, decorative in style, were shown
by P. Mironovitch and J. Kalmykoff. Yet another
artist whose work is decorative rather than pictorial,
and who was well represented at the exhibition, is
V. Kandinsky, a Russian by birth who lives in
Munich, and in whose paintings French as well as
German influence can be very distinctly recognised.
There were also a number of more or less satis-
factory studies for pictures, some charming pencil
drawings by Vroubel, and some etchings in colour
from Paris by Mile. Krouglikoff, all well worth
examination.
CONSTANCE.—This pretty town is
already well-known for the pottery
produced by Frau Elisabeth Schmidt-
Pecht, which has many admirers in
England and America. Now Hermann Seidler,
originally a painter, has opened an establishment
for pottery, and makes objects of endless variety
both for use and ornament. He made many costly
experiments before offering the results to the public,
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