International studio (25.1905)

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STUDY FROM NATURE

BY FRAt't.RIK I.OMMB).

sit for a tong time, and he
stopped and inquired how
things were going. Then
he cut short the tale of woe
by putting his hand into
his pocket and hauting out
a patmfut of silver, which
he gave her, with the
hope that she woutd have
better tuck in the future.
The Munich art student,
apart from his own
knows scarce anything that
goes on in the whote of
the Academy. He never
thinks of crossing the
threshold separating one
class from another except

have sat in the famous of
Munich for three-quarters of a
century, mothers with babies in
their arms and small toddlers
clutching at their skirts, splen-
didly-built young fellows and
pretty girls whose stock-in-trade
all lies in their fine figures and
attractive heads. A motley crew
in bright colours and in sombre,
standing out in picturesque dis-
order against the stone pillars
and the long line of sculptured
figures down the corridors.
The gossip of some of the old
models is a whole technique of
art criticism. They have all the
peculiarities of every well-known
artist quite at their own finger-
tips. All the little tricks and
fads of his special working are
known to them, and any eccen-
tricity of his is made a butt for
their own and their listeners'
amusement. Lenbach was very
popular among the models, as he
always paid them special rates
for sitting, often giving ten marks
for an afternoon's pose, while the
regulation fee is sixty pfennigs an
hour. One old woman at the
Academy relates how she once
met Lenbach in the street after
she had been ill and unable to STUDY
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BY FRAUUEtX t.OMMEi.