International studio (40.1910)

Studio-Talk

CURIOSITY BY IRMA VON DUCZYKSKA

the influence of Ferdinand Andri, under whose sympathiser by the death at the age of sixty-six of

guidance she discovered the particular field for the eminent art critic, Ludwig Hevesi. It was he,

which her talents fitted her. When her work was who, when a number of young artists, among

■exhibited at the Secession in 1901 it was very them Josef Olbrich, Hoffmann, Klimt, Engelhart

cordially received. Many of her woodcuts have and Kolo Moser, showed themselves dissatisfied

been acquired for the various collections, the with the old methods, encouraged them to form

Albertina and Imperial Library in Vienna, in the "Secession," and when Olbrich built the

Budapest, in Cracow, and in Dresden. In her Secession Gallery, Hevesi wrote the memorable

portraits also Fraulein von Duczynska has met inscription for it, " Der Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst

with due success. Those shown proved her ihre Freiheit.;' For twelve long years he has

facility not only in delineating the features, but in never failed to attend the exhibitions held there

revealing the soul of her sitters. It is, however, in and at the Hagenbund and other galleries. Hevesi

her portrayal of children that she is at her best, had travelled near and far, was well versed in both

Here her work reveals an intimate understanding ancient and modern art, and was thoroughly in-

of juvenile character, and for confirmation of formed of the English movement, which always

this one need only point to the two works here found favour in his eyes. He was the author of

reproduced. _ a large number of essays and several volumes

bearing on art, and it will be remembered that he

The modern movement in art has lost a warm contributed to the Special Number of The Studio

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