International studio (31.1907)

Studio-Talk

Metzner] •' and Hermann
Feuerhahn and the painter
August Unger.


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Florentine and American monumentality, and is
enlivened by the elevating principle of Gothicism.
We feel these kinships, however, without ever being
able to point to anything savouring of repetition.
Here we have an original and entirely national power
at work, imbued by inspirations from the Edda and
the Nibelungen. Schmitz has chosen sympathetic
collaborators in the sculptors Professor Franz

While the great Berlin
Art Exhibition and the
Secession have been pre-
paring their comprehen-
sive annual shows, exhibi-
tion zeal has not slackened
at the private galleries.
Since he removed to his
splendid new quarters,
Schulte seems to feel
that noblesse oblige. He
offers every month a
rather too profuse collec-
tion of pictures. Some
new Canonicas convince
us again of the Turin
sculptor’s incomparable
refinement in the treatment of marble, and
of his psychological sagacity. Great interest—
especially in art circles — was aroused by the
paintings of Waldemar Count von Reichenbach
from Wackwitz, near Dresden. He puzzles classifiers
by the many-sidedness of his artistic vision, and by
his technical mastery. Whether he makes us think
or pray or laugh or merely see, he is always candid

BERLIN : THE “EBONY” SALOON
BRUNO SCHMITZ, ARCHITECT