International studio (41.1910)

Studio-Talk

1 the holiday on the common" ( Grosse Berlinet Kunst-Ausstellitng) * by franz eichhorst

sent the distinguished portrait of a young girl.
Franz Paczka contributes a fine piece of flesh-
painting in his Emese, the mythological ancestress
of Hungaria, and among his customary Hungarian
peasant pictures, The Young Women of the Village
furnishes the most striking evidence of a national
colour taste of quite incomparable gaiety. The
American, Arthur Johnson, a resident of Berlin,
exhibits some of his strange emotional phantasies
which are so lovingly executed.

Some of the chief attractions come from Vienna.
John Quincy Adams excels in the charming
portrait-group of his family which treats the adora-
tion of the babe in quite an original conception
and with distinguished colour harmonies. Nikolaus
Schattenstein is duly admired for his delightful
portrait of Frau Dr. Auernheimer, and H. von
Angeli confirms an established reputation by some
portraits. The Belgian Laermans is represented
by some characteristic labourer-pictures which
always create a singular impression by their admix-
ture of pathos and caricature. Holland has sent
the excellent landscapist A. M. Gorter, and a con-
tribution from M. Monnickendam, Lecture in the
Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers in Paris, a
startling study of physiognomies and illumination.
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No invitations were sent this year to painter-
groups in the German towns of artistic repute, as
the intention was to give precedence to Berlin.
Only Julius Bergmann of Karlsruhe, the animal-
painter, has received the honours of a compre-
hensive show, and this distinction seems to me to
be quite justified. He displays a wonderful charm
of almost mysterious colour-harmony when he
depicts the lonely herdsman and his herd in twilight
or dusk. It is always a source of pleasure when
Karl Boehme of Karlsruhe is to be studied in one
of his Mediterranean pieces. His Cape St. Martin,
near Biarritz is most fortunate again in the
rendering of emerald waves and russet cliffs.
Some renowned Munich painters, especially Hans
von Bartels, have sent meritorious works, among
which Pius Ferdinand Messerschmitt's dramatic
The Carrier must not pass unnoticed. J. J.

VENICE.—By way of supplementing the
illustrations we gave last month fiom
the Italian works shown in the present
International Art Exhibition of the City
of Venice, we give opposite a reproduction of a
painting by Alessandro Milesi, who was briefly
referred to in the notes on the Italian sections.
Signor Milesi belongs to the Venetian group,