International studio (34.1908)

Studio-Talk


TOYS DESIGNED BY E. LIEBERMANN AND KARL SOFFEL FOR THE DEUTSCHE
WERKSTATTEN, DRESDEN

Delicacy is represented in
various forms, it has the
flavour of decadence in
Klimt, of Biedermeier grace
in Karl Walser, of quiet
lyricism in Volkmann.
Beardsley has found some
clever followers in Pascin,
Scheurich, Cesar Klein and
P. Cristophe, and Julius
Klinger is contented as his
imitator. Struck and
Philipp Franck express
their realism in etchings of
great reserve and finery, and
Gertrud von Kunowsky is strong and serious.
There are some interesting drawings of older

masters, and a good many works of new artists
which smack of schoolboy attempts.



VIENNESE EXHIBITION AT ERNST ARNOLD’S GALLERIES, DRESDEN
(See Dresden Studio- Talk)

A recent exhibition at
the Royal Academy ex-
ercised particular magne-
tism with a Sargent collec-
tion. German painters are
eager to study the fine
qualities of this exceptional
master. They cannot over-
look in some pictures a
Certain lack of psycho-
logical depth and a rather
improvisatory style, but the
predominance of taste and
spirit and charm is univer-
sally recognised. The new
president of the Academy,
Professor Arthur Kampf,
was fresh and convincing
in painting the taming of
an unbridled horse. He
also interested by the por-
trait of a lady which in some
parts was an excellent bit
of reserved colourism, but
rather crude in others.
Carl Bantzer, from Dres-
den, left no wish unful-
filled in his masterly cha-
racterised peasant pictures.
The spirit of modernism
bore fruitful harvest in
Dettmann, Engel, Frenzel,
"Kuehl, Leistikow, and Lie-
bermann, but proved fatal
for Vogel and Lepsius.
Tuaillon, Breuer and

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