International studio (24.1904/1905(1905))

Studio-Talk


MEDAL BY G. DEVREESE
Further, in 1904 we have the extremely clever
medal [presented to M. G. van den Broeck, late
Treasurer of the Royal Numismatical Society of
Belgium.


MEDAL BY G. DEVREESE
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The work of Devreese the medallist is re-
markable for various qualities : the characteristic
construction of the faces ; the clean cutting of the
profiles; ingenuity of invention in composition ;
and sureness in the placing of the subject. It is
to be hoped that the numerous proofs he has
given of these qualities will induce the official
authorities to entrust him with the execution of
their numismatic work. F K.

STUTTGART.—Thegalleries of the “Kunst-
Verein ” here have just opened an in-
teresting show of the work of Eberhard
Ege, a Suabian by birth, who has, how-
ever, lived far away from his home for several
years past, having settled at Vicovaro, in the Sabine
Mountains. Professor Ege was originally an archi-
tect, but crossed over to painting, and went through
some training at the Academie Julian before he


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decided to go to Italy. Vicovaro is rather an out-
of-the-way place, some 30 miles from Rome, beyond
Tivoli, to which and from which hews comes sparely.
As this is the first occasion upon which the painter
has exhibited his works in an accessible place,


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