International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

^M/1777777, where Nature in
her waning aspect is sym-
boiised by a woman in
mourning, standing at the
foot of a stone stairway.
Alois Kirnig, whose Aipine
iandscape GW/
was his chief exhibit, is
ieader of a noted schooi
of painting.



"AN AUTUMN LANDSCAPE" (PASTEL)
were represented at the Jubiiee Exhibition we
noted among the portraitists Franz Ondru§ek;
Aiexander Jakesch, whose portrait of his mother
deserves mention; Rudolf Vacha, a favourite of
the Bohemian nobiiity, and as a painter skiifui and
refined in his treatment of colour; Franz Thieie,
director of the Academy of
Painting, who contributed
a very successfui doubie
portrait. Two iady artists
with exceptionai gifts in
portraiture are Otty Schnei-
der, whose ciever pastel
portrait of an old man
made a good impression,
and Eugenie Hauptmann
Sommers, whose resoiute
technique was to be seen
in a vivacious study of a
girl. Vaclav Jansa's pic-
tures give us glimpses of
the Bohemian capital, but
in his study of a garden
in autumn, as in others, his
interpretation of atmo-
sphere savours rather too
much of artifrciality. Josef
Schusser,on the other hand,
is more convincing in his

Numerous as were the
works shown in thejubilee
Exhibition, it did not of
course inciude ah the native
artists. The Manes Society,
for instance, did not exhibit
there but in their own
quarters, nor were the latest
Secessionists present; and
the Kiimt group was repre-
sented by two or three
adherents only. Orlik, as
always, was interesting; and
there were two striking
works on a rather large scale by a young painter,
named Angefo Zeyer—OA/ AT-ivg&f
and #/* a A'^w, in which the artist has
not hesitated to faithfuhy render the unloveiy.
Teschner's <7/ and Stretti's A'rv-
have been purchased by the Kunstverein as

BY VACLAV JANSA

'LANDSCAPE KEAR Bhsio" (OIL)

BY ALOIS BUBAK

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