International studio (23.1904)

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and clouds of drapery, and
delicately touched by the
artist’s brush that we can
scarcely imagine how the
colouring found its way
there. And in his por-
traits of men also Klimt has
much to say, working as he
does for his own ideals:
here too he is striving to
find that which is hidden
in all men, to bring not
only the features of a face
on the canvas but also what
is not visible to all.

so wonderfully and

The nineteenth exhibition of the
Vienna “Secession” was devoted
to works by foreign artists, Fer-
dinand Hodler, of Geneva, sending
no less than thirty-one pictures and frescoes. This

BY LOUIS DEJEAN

are face to face with a peasant’s
house, poplars, a group of fir-trees
or beeches. Klimt is always seeking
new combinations of colour, and de-
lights in vivid contrasts : in his Das
Leben ist ein Kampf (Life is Strife),
the knight is clad in armour with
arabesques of gold and his horse is
deep black. Klimt, more than any
of the modern artists, has given rise
to much discussion; but, whatever
this may lead to, there can only be
one opinion as to his position as a
colourist. Of colour he is as much
a master as was Makart before him,
though the painter’s ideas and tastes
ran in an opposite direction. The
canvases of the one are full of the
richness of the south, and those of
the other of the atmosphere of the
north.

The Exhibition was arranged by
Professors Koloman Moser and Josef
Hoffmann. It is enough to mention
their names.

In his landscapes, too,
Klimt shows the delicacy
of his brush and the fine-
ness of his atmosphere. A
gentle mist seems to be
falling over them; and
this suddenly lifting we

KLIMT EXHIBITION, VIENNA

ARRANGED BY KOLOMAN MOSER

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