International studio (35.1908)

Studio-Talk


“the sluice

BY RUDOLF QUITTNER

VIENNA.—This
year’s spring ex-
hibition at the
Kii n stlerhaus
was at once pleasing and
instructive, affording as it
did ample opportunity of
following the development
of art in Austria during the
reign of the Emperor
Francis Joseph, whose
golden jubilee is being
celebrated this year. Many
of the artists represented
have, of course, passed
from the ranks of the living,
the more eminent of them
including Waldmiiller,
Makart, Rudolf von Alt,
Moritz von Schwind, Emil
Jacob Schindler, Tilgner;
but such stalwarts as
Heinrich von Angeli, Hugo
Charlemont, Franz von

the power of her hand, and should
feel repulsed by her pessimism if it
were not ennobled by a heartfelt
pity with the outcasts of humanity.
Emil Rudolf Weiss, whose many-
sided talent as book artist and
designer of textiles could recently
be studied in a one-man show
in the Konigliche Kunstgewerbe
Museum, here offered his results
as a painter. He has been trying
his brush at all sorts of subjects
and has attained considerable re-
sults with the nude, still-life, and
flowers. Two or three others who
have been exhibiting at Cassirer's
must be noted. Ulrich Hiibner has
a flowing stroke and a lively colour
for his breezy seaside impressions.
The portraits of Konrad von Kar-
dorff are rather variable. He can
give a convincing analysis of cha-
racter and show distinguished taste,
but in some female portraits he has
strangely coarsened nature. Erich
Hancke strives after the psychic,
but his portraits do not always
convince of reliability. J. J.