International studio (44.1911)

Walther Klemms

Wood-Engravings

M. Jacques Blanche has become nowadays one
of the finest colourists of the French School. His
portrait of Nijinski, the famous Russian dancer, is
extremely interesting on account of its richness and
sumptuousness of tone.
M. Muenier combines rare qualities of painting
with a charming and delicate sentiment. No picture
is more attractive than his Lecon de Clavecin, and it
seems as though the spirit of Boilly had descended
upon this work, which is, nevertheless, of a very
personal accent.
M. Gaston La Touche will astound even the
most diffident as much by the continuousness of
his achievement as by the ever-maintained high
quality of his productions. One finds in his four
panels, L'Heure heureuse, E Innocence, IEnfant
prodigue, and Le Gue, the same qualities of imagina-
tion, allied with rare appreciation of light and
colour.
Among the most pleasing landscapes in the
Salon this year are unquestionably
those of M. Raffaelli, M. Dauchez,
and M. Lhermitte. M. Lhermitte
stands for a great tradition. Is
he not in fact the last pupil of
J. F. Millet, whose beautiful con¬
ception of rural life he continues
in his own style ? A whole series of
works ably attest the diversity of
M. Lhermitte’s inspiration and also
the suppleness of his technique.
M. Raffaelli’s works delight the
eye by their exceptional brilliance.
What wonderful variety in the inter-
pretation and execution of his land-
scapes ! Now it is a sunlit road of
Provence which engages his attention,
now one of the quais at Paris—for is
not Raffaellipar excelle?ice the painter
of the capital in all its aspects ?—now
one of the picturesque villages in the
neighbourhood of Paris ; and always
the artist transcribes nature with
beauty and sincerity.
M. Dauchez has become nowadays
one of the best landscapists of the
Nationale. Nothing can approach
the rigour and the exactitude of his
drawing. Certainly his palette is at
times a little sad, but despite a
sombre range of colour, M. Dauchez
succeeds in introducing a diversity
and decided originality into his
work. Henri Frantz.

The wood-engravings of
WALTHER KLEMM. BY DR.
HANS W. SINGER.
A great deal of woodcut work is being produced
at present all over Germany, as indeed, a great deal
of every kind of black-and-white art. But after
all—in spite of the mass of material exhibited
every year and the large number of artists’ names,
increasing steadily, which one feels one ought to
remember—there are but a few men who loom up
beyond the rest, and only a very few who are the
real props of this art. Walther Klemm doubtless
belongs to this restricted set. He is still a young
man, not yet thirty, and so far woodcuts make up
his life-work : he has done little else, beyond a few
drawings and water-colours.
Klemm was born at Karlsbad in Bohemia and
received his schooling in Vienna. He was then
sent to the University and the career of an art


“CANAL IN HAMBURG.” FROM THE WOOD-ENGRAVING IN COLOURS
BY WALTHER KLEMM

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