International studio (23.1904)

Dusseldorf Exhibition


“departing winter in the eifel

BY FRITZ VON WII.LE

art exhibitions elsewhere, and they should be
warned that a good deal of what they will see in
these international rooms here, they have already
probably seen somewhere else before, notably in
1900 at Paris.
Among foreign countries Great Britain is an easy
first. The officials of the “ International ” have
taken the exhibit in hand and sent most of the
work that went to make the exhibition last January
at the New Gallery such a splendid one. Adams,
Brangwyn, Alfred East, Oliver Hall, Hornel, Kerr-
Lawson, Lavery, Nicholson, Sauter, C. H. Shan-
non, J. J. Shannon, and Wilson Steer are a few of
the painters that have sent good paintings, and
there is also a Whistler, The Violin Player. The
British black-and-white department is the only one
worth speaking of in the whole house, and it is
capital, including at least two hundred drawings
and etchings by Abbey, Anning Bell (drawings for
Milton’s “ Minor Poems ”), Beardsley (drawings
for Wilde’s “ Salome ”), Detmold, Charles Keene,
Jessie King, Phil May, J. Pennell (Spanish set),
C. H. Shannon, E. J. Sullivan (drawings for “ Sartor
Resartus ”), Whistler (Thames set), etc. This is,

for the Continent, an unusual exhibit, due probably
to Mr. Pennell’s efforts, and should be appre-
ciated at Dusseldorf.
In the French section, which is very fair, we find
noteworthy examples of the work of Gaston La
Touche, Albert Besnard, L. Simon, Aman-Jean,
Monet, Cottet, Degas, Le Sidaner, Henri Martin,
E. R. Menard, Renoir, Emile Wery, and others.
There are also some fine medals and plaquettes by
G. Dupre, Carabin, Rozet, and 0. Yencesse.
Belgium, Holland, and the United States are
well represented by the excellent work of Henri
Thomas, Courtens, Dierckx, Claus, Meunier,
Khnopff, Baertsoen, C. Michel, Israels, Maris,
Mesdag, Neuhuys, Ritsema, Gari Melchers, Bridg-
man, Stewart. Among the Scandinavians our
attention is especially drawn to Munthe, who sent
a series of tapestry designs ; and Kittelsen, who
sent some of his weird, fascinating fairy - story
pictures.
As regards the Austrian, Swiss, Polish, Italian,
and Spanish sections, they are all indifferent, and
I need not dwell upon them at all.
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