International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

Brandeis. There is a dainti-
nessabout his methodwhich
accordswehwith theBieder-
meierism of that time. The
of Josef Navrati),
who belongs to the hrst hatf
of the r$th century, have
atmospheric quatities which
suggest the inhuence of
Turner. AioisBubak'sland-
scapes are in feeiing nearer
to the oid school thanthe
modein. Jaroslav Cermak
was a painter of the genre
pictures once so much
admired. His pigments are
iaid with too heavy a hand,
but his painting of ftesh is
worth studying.
Turning to the artists of
the present generation who

von Fiihrich, a painter of historic
pictures and a Nazarene, belongs
to the old school, and a simpie,
child-iike sentiment pervaded his
pictures, such as AAz7y
and A/i???7'7M'7?^'.
Kari Wurbs' works are of inestimabie
vaiue for iovers of oid Prague, and
not least so on account of their
good technicai quaiities. His oid
peopie and houses wearacare-worn,
melancholy appearance, for the re-
voiution of '48 and the horrors of
the war of '66 left their impress on
man and his surroundings. Among
the men of mark Josef Mane^, son
and pupil of Anton Manes, the
head of the weH-known famiiy of
painters, stands in the forefront.
The painters of the Czech Secession
iook to him as the starting-point of
their movement, and when one con-
tempiates the portraiture of
Svabinsky, one of the smaii band
of Bohemian artists whose reputation
reaches far beyond the conhnes of
their native country, it becomes
manifest that his art has been largeiy
in&uenced by the oider master.
Another portrait painter of the same
generation as ManeS was Johann
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