International studio (42.1910)

Studio- Talk

embroidered reticule. designed and worked*
by franziska hofmanninger

a tenderer feeling for the graces of vegetation and
atmospheric delicacies. In the execution of such
motifs he could rival the Dutch masters of the
17 th century or Barbizon brushes.

For several years past the young sculptor, Paul
Oesten, has attracted notice by graceful groups
whose peculiarity lay in the juxtaposition of Praxi-
telean virgins with panthers. He carried off the
great gold medal of the Grosse Berliner Kunstaus-
stellung in 1906 for his Dandid Fountain, which
showed his sympathetic talent grown to monu-
mentality, and a capability for the tragic as well
as the arcadian expression. This year he makes
a striking impression in the Berlin Exhibition with
his Young Man in a Sweater, an excellent study
of anatomy in modern sporting garb, and his
Chauffeur is much admired in the Munich Glaspa-
last. In the brutal intensity of his automobile
driver, Oesten, a passionate sportsman himself, has

BERLIN.—The
Salon Cassirer
has honoured ^^^^^B
Johann Sperl
on his seventieth birthday H
with a collective exhibi-
tion. This intimate colla-
borator of Wilhelm Leibl
lived with him in retire-
ment in the Bavarian
mountains. He has never
made much of his own

art and was contented to d^^J,§//^L
see his friend's fame J^KM

spread far and wide. The JpVI^Vwr 'ijk ■ %| •

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of fleecy skies and the 1^^^--____—:-—--1 ~"ia'l

interiors of peasant cot-
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land. Nobody ever had "diana and the panthers" by paul oesten

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