International studio (24.1904/1905(1905))

Studio-Talk

every variety of picturesqueness, from the dense,
low, misty tones of our rough and flat western
seaboard, with its somewhat dry poorness of
heather, potato, and cornfields on the more
elevated, undulating ground of the middle hill-
range, t-o the rich and pure splendour of light
and colour in the summer and autumn months on
the Baltic coast.

Since first mentioned in The Studio four
years ago, provincial art feeling of a good tra-
ditional and, at the same time, modern character
has slowly but surely been gaining ground
among artists as well as the general public here;
this movement was initiated and well kept up by
dint of frequent exhibitions, such as those held by
the Art Society (Schleswig-Holsteviischer Kunst-
verein), the Kunstge?iossenschaft, and the Thaulow-
Museum in Kiel, as well as in the annual Wander-
aussellungen (travelling exhibitions) at Altona,
Neumiinster, Itzehoe, Husum (the native town of
the poet Theodor Storm), and other provincial
towns.

Among the native artists
of reputation contributing
to these exhibitions we
have already pointed out
Professor Hans Olde
(Director of the Modern
Art School of Weimar).
We may also mention
Professor Adolf Briitt
(Berlin), the sculptor, speci-
mens of whose first-class
work are at present on view
in the entrance-hall of the
Thaulow-Museum. A sur-
vey of this artist’s life and
work will be presented
shortly to the readers of
this magazine.

Two other interesting
workers are August
Wilckens and Char-
lotte von Krogh, both
from Hadersleben, in
North Schleswig. Mr.
Wilckens is at present
studying features and folks
on the islands of our west
coast, while Miss von
Krogh has made the land-
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scape and interior views in the neighbourhood of
Hadersleben her speciality.

The views of old-fashioned peasant and fisher-
men’s dwellings, containing their traditional fur-
niture, stores, and utensils, with the characteristic
types of the people living, like their forefathers
did, in this same “ milieu ” since childhood, are
most attractive.

The illustration on page 365—Sunday Morning
(an old peasant woman reading Scriptures) and the
portrait on this page — are the clever work of
H. P. Feddersen.
W. S.
PARIS.—The exhibitions one by one are
opening their doors, as is the case every
year about this period, and while we are
awaiting the International Exhibition at
the Petit Gallery mention may be made of the
success won by the first display of the etchers in
colours —- the Aquafurtisies en Couleurs—a new
society over which that excellent artist, Raflaelli,


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BY H. P. FEDDERSEN