International studio (34.1908)

Studio-Talk



of society emulated one
another in arrangements
which were to raise the
standard of taste in such
questions. It will always
be a matter of individual
bent, whether a decora-
tion in an historical or in
a personal style is pre-
ferred. Both tendencies
found beautiful expres-
sions here. Among the
principal participants I
should mention Frau
Hedwig Heyl, Frau
Oppler, the architect
Friedmann, Frau Meyer-
Grafe, Frau Fia Wille,
“a sailing party, norderney” by f. klein-chevalier Fraulein Kirschner, and
Fraulein Schlieder. Ar-
rangements have been
painter. His voluminous composition, Odysseus made for the holding of other such exhibitions
and the Sirens, with its pieces d'etachees style, reminds under artistic supervision. J. j.
one of pre-Raphaelitic
works. But Greiner is a
realist, no melancholy
dreamer. The siren-rock
in the foreground, with
the voluptuous shapes of
the temptresses, real Eves,
no demons, under their
glowing poppy garland,
is full of life blood.
But the longing king with
his crew in the pearly
landscape seem born ot
the coolness of intellect.
The study of the sketches
for this picture, which are
exhibited with it, becomes
a perfect delight at a
period which is so poor
in qualities of persever-
ance and exactness.

Thousands of visitors
crowded the Hobenzollern
Kunstge wrerbe- Flaus
during the few days of its
very original exhibition
called “The Laid Table.”
At the instigation of
Messrs. Friedmann and
Weber, artists and ladies
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“the fair”

BY HANS HARTIG