International studio (25.1905)

by the critics as one of the most brilliant achieve-
ments of modern German art.

The principles influencing Professor Lauger, not
only in his work as an artist, but also as teacher
of interior decoration in architectural department
of the Karlsruhe Technical High School, may be
epitomised as follows: absolute simplicity, with
practical utility, combined with a fine sense of
proportion and an utter absence of superfluous
ornament. As for colour, the Professor affects
quiet, neutral tints, such as may throw into strong
relief such things as pictures, vases, tapestries, and
curtains.

During the last few years there has been a
certain modification in the nature of Professor
Lauger's ceramic work. In addition to his older
and richly-coloured style, popular and more or less
connected with peasant art, he has now adopted
a manner more /fyMa/zz', more irregular in tone.
His forms too have undergone a certain variation,

and have become now simple architecturally. His
floral manner has changed into something
more akin to abstract decoration. This new
somewhat resembles stoneware in colour, and the
effect is increased by a more delicate technique.
He employs dull glaze now just as much as
formerly he used high glaze. Among the most
striking examples of his new method are certain
mosaics inlaid with ornamental bands of gold and
silver. J. K. W.
1 OTTERDAM. — There has been much
] ^ excitement about the exhibition of the
@ \ works of Wassenaar. Nowadays
^ the public is not only influenced
by the beauty of a man's art; quite other things
influence them, arising out of economical and
social conditions, the history of the artist's
rise in the social scale. Beauty is not especially
the gift of poverty or of wealth; and it has to be
measured only by desire or passion. Wassenaar's
exhibition was his first one : he showed


WALL-FOUNTAIN DESIGNED BY MAX LAUGER

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