International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

Studio-Talk


cause and goal of the fierce struggle which he
was representing; and so it came that he added
the figure of a woman mortally wounded, who
clings to the corner of a rock sheltered by the
body of a self-sacrificing sister. It was the
Boer War which the artist had in mind when
creating the group; indeed, it was Klinger’s in-
tention at one time to place the following inscrip-
tion on the base of the marble group : “ Belli
Boerumbut afterwards chose the broader and
more expressive title.
Although there are German artists who have but
little sympathy with this sculptor’s work, he is
nevertheless, without doubt, one of the foremost
geniuses in modern German art. The bronze busts
Salome and Cassandra, here reproduced, the Cast-
ing of which was executed by the Actiengesellschaft
vormals H. Gladenbeck & Sohn, are characteristic
of this master’s art. A. H.

“cassandra’

BY MAX KLINGER

and Reiner’s Art Galleries last autumn
were Max Klinger’s Drama, Salome,
and Cassandra. Some seven years ago
Klinger accepted an Order from the
trustees of the Tiedge bequest for a
colossal marble group, to be added to
the collection of sculpture already ac-
quired ; and it was his admiration at
the time for the beautiful proportions
of the figure of the athlete Rosso which
raised the desire in the artist to be
able to place siele by side the original
and the copy. Thus it came that
Klinger took the celebrated athlete as
his model for the principal figure of
the group to which he eventual ly gave
the title Drama.

Invited to exhibit the work at the
Dresden Art Gallery in 1899, the
sculptor had the desire to indicate
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BY MAX KLINGER

“SALOME