International studio (25.1905)

whole area, from boundary line to boundary line,
is dotted by feminine and masculine figures in the
garb dear to the student of art, the more peculiar
and inelegant the better, and no house is too
"grand" or too primitive to "let out" studio
accommodation. On first coming to Munich I
asked a student to show me over the artist quarter,
and was laughingly told that the whole of the town
might be termed that.
1 here can be no question as to whether Munich
loves her art student. She certainly does; and
from giving the most of art training in return for
the least money, down to taking the best of
" motherly" care of them when ill, the German
town shows both pride and affection in her aspiring
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For three pounds a year the German art student
may have easel room in the Academy school, and
the full privileges and ad-
vantages of a thorough
art training — these three
pounds being inclusive
of everything, from model
fees to criticisms from the
most distinguished artists,
the only additional ex-
pense being for working
materials. And in the
event of some very poor
student being unable to
buy these, there is always
some way found for him
to do so, generally through
his professor becoming an
intermediary between him
and his town council.
When fairly well ad-
vanced, if a student shows
any unusual ability, he is
given a private a%A'f7-,
either quite alone or with
one other student, in the
Academy building, where
he may work by himself
and still have the criticism
of his chosen professors.
This a&Zt'd'T* may be re-
tained for almost an in-
definite period, quite
according to the personal
desires of the worker.
All art exhibitions and
museums in Munich are
free to the art students. "THE LANDSCAPE PAINTER

Theatre and opera tickets are half price. They
have half-rate admissions to the public baths, and
receive special care, rooms, etc., free of charge at
all hospitals when ill. If living outside of Munich,
they are given special reduced rates on the rail-
ways ; the most important medical college throws
open its amphitheatre for regular courses in ana-
tomical lectures by one of its finest anatomists free
of charge to the art students. Everything, in fact,
is done to help the budding genius in the art
Academy, even to leniency shown him by the city
fathers when he gets too hilarious in the streets, a
digression from duty known to every student
town.
Apart from the Academy and the several private
for students, there is in Munich an institu-
tion peculiar to herself called the
meaning workshop, where students or young artists

BY PROFESSOR CARE MARR

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