International studio (35.1908)

Studio- Talk


KLIMT ROOM AT THE “KUNSTSCHAU” EXHIBITION, VIENNA

ARRANGED BY I'ROF. KOLO MOSER

delight to a child and arouse his aesthetic sense
was shown here.

A small country-house which Prof. Hoffmann
built and furnished was very pleasing. The
furniture is entirely of bentwood, a material which,
owing to recent discoveries, is in the hands of a
competent workman as pliable as clay in the
hands of a potter. Prof. Hoffmann has made a
special study of it, hence he knows its possibilities
and how to design according to them.

A brief reference must
be made to the pictures.
Gustav Klimt was the
leader here, and around
him gathered his friends,
forming the “Klimt
Gruppe,” who had a room
to themselves. Klimt’s is
essentially an art for the
few : the many cannot
appreciate its subtle
qualities, but how great is
the enjoyment it gives to
those who do understand
it ! In his Three Ages
(the child, the mother,
the grandmother) a whole
life’s history is told with
consummate skill. Some
very good pictures were
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shown by Karl Moll, Emil Orlik, W. List, W.
Legler, M. Kurzweil, C. A. Reichel and other
artists. Graphic art was represented by Emil Orlik,
C. O. Czeschka, G. Klimt, B. Loffler, August
Bromsee, Frl. von Uchatius, Franz von Ztilow,
Elena Luksch,—Makowska, R. Teschner and many
other talented young artists. A. S. L.
Imre Simay (or Emmerich Simay, as he is often
called now that he is settled in Vienna) was born
at Budapest in 1876, and spent his boyhood in
Hungary, where he went through the usual gym-


“ NESTOR”

BY IMRE SIMAY