International studio (40.1910)

Studio- Talk

" PROMETHEUS" BY PROFESSOR HUGO VOGEL

touch in Nana and a series of female pastel auction. It was a rare treat to trace the varying

portraits. register of pencil expressions from Pisanello to Del

Sarto, from Clouet to Watteau, to see charming

At Fritz Gurlitt's interest was aroused by a ]eaves from tne hands of Durer, Belotto, Rembrandt

collection of the " Scholle," a Munich group of an(j Chodowiecki.
artists who are all vigorous but somewhat daring

technicians with a rather intrepid sympathy for the Professor Hugo Vogel, whose new wall-pictures

female nude. Leo Putz carried off the greatest for Hamburg met with such universal applause,

success with his graceful group of ballet girls, has executed the large painting Pronietheus for

Behind the Scenes. Adolph Miinzer again con- the Hall of Industry in the German division of the

vinced of decorative talent in paintings of some- Brussels World Exhibition. It is a very impressive

what decadent carriage, and Reinhold Max Eichler work, not only by the grandeur of the landscape

commanded attention by youthful freshness and frame, but also by the creditable interpretation of a

refined tonalities. It was interesting to see Carlo powerful myth. Although the decorative intention

Bocklin turning away from his great father's is clearly visible, the principal stress is laid on

heritage and seeking personal utterance in delicate character, and nowhere is the idealising Kaulbach

aspects of Florentine landscape. In the drawings period recalled. _ J. J.

of Max Mayrshofer, grace is coupled with vigour.

However impressionistic his jostling crowds, his Tne Keller and Reiner Salon has removed to

nudes, grotesques and landscapes appear, a closer a new house in the Potsdamer Strasse, and in the

study always reveals extraordinary assiduity. sumptuously and tastefully arranged showrooms and

galleries Berlin is enriched with a first-class estab-

Messrs. Amsler and Ruthardt were very for- lishment for exhibitions of high and applied art.

tunate in securing an array of unique old master This firm, which fifteen years ago was largely

drawings (rom the Lanna Collection for exhibition instrumental in propagating the Van der Velde

before their dispersal in the Stuttgart Gutekunst style, now has Professor Bruno Schmitz for its