International studio (25.1905)

The bedroom design aims at space and comfort,
and pieces of furniture which might be likely to
require removal from one place to another are
made with lightness, without contrast in style to
the fixed or less movable objects in the room.
The bedroom furniture is made of fine yellow
lemon wood, and the hat carved work is old gold
in tone, as are also the other ornaments. The
walls are covered with pigeon-grey linen, stencilled
with roses. Of especial interest is the fireplace
design for a sitting-room.
1 ^ RESDEN.—Among our recent exhibi-
ts H tions the one acquainting us with the
F landscape work of Toni Stadler was
** certainly the most interesting. Stadler
is an artist who has been working for a long time,

but is scarcely known outside the very limited
circle of his friends. He is fortunately not dependent
upon his work as an artist for a living, and can paint
what he likes and as he likes without the least
concern for how it appeals to anybody after it is
finished. He can dispense with not being " dis-
covered," and not being made a hero of. This,
rather than the quality of his work, explains why he
is so little known. Stadler's landscapes show some
affinity to the paintings of Hans Thoma, Karl
Haider, and that class, more, perhaps, to the old
splendid pictures of wide expanses of country that
Vandermeer of Delft and Rembrandt van Rijn
occasionally undertook, without being directly
reminiscent of either. It is refreshing to see that
his pictures are still able to take a strong hold
upon us, in spite of the circumstance that they are
not buoyed up by any one of the many
fads of our day, each one of which
claims to be the only true modern
style of art.

M. A. Nicolai has already made his
in THE STUDIO, one or two years
ago, and we take pleasure in repro-
ducing some of his latest designs in
wicker-work. It is always difficult
to aim at something new in such
hackneyed problems as the designing
of chairs and settees without forgetting
that novelty attained at the expense of
practicability is worth nothing, but
Nicolai seems to keep this well in
mind. He has also applied this kind
of work to umbrella stands and flower
racks, which does not seem to me a
happy idea; both will occasionally
get wet, and the water will run through
the wicker-work. Ladies' work-baskets
and indoor huts for lap-dogs or tabbies
are certainly better adapted for this
material, and these designs belong to
Nicolai's best.

Mrs. Marie Grey-Heintze really
belongs to the Dresden artists,
although she has lately settled at
Leipsic. She has done some portrait
painting in pastels, but her prin-
cipal work so far has been black
and white, amounting to some sixty
etchings and a dozen lithographs. All
WARDROBE DEStoxED BY GEORG HONOLD of them betray the influence of her
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