DOI Heft:
Nr. 173 (July, 1911)
DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: The Spring Exhibition of the Vienna Secession
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43447#0095
The Vienna Secession
The spring exhibition of
THE VIENNA SECESSION.
The Spring Exhibition at the Secession
Gallery reached so high a level that it won great
praise on all sides. The general excellence of the
works shown proved how lofty are the ideals
animating the members of this Society. The
Vienna Secessionists have one desire in common—-
to show their best work, and their productions
always bear the impress of genuine sincerity. In
their individual contributions there is abundant
diversity of subject and method, and consequently
their corporate exhibitions are not open to the
charge of being monotonous.
The chief guest on this occasion was Alfred
Philippe Roll, a collection of whose works filled
the large hall. Most of the pictures, which
included a considerable number of pastels, were
lent by their owners, the Musee du Luxembourg,
the City of Paris, and private persons, and the
Viennese public, who have always shown a par-
tiality for French art, found in M. Roll’s work
much to their liking.
Another point of interest was a memorial exhibi-
tion of the works of Franz Jaschke, a member of
the Secession who died a short time ago. This
artist painted but little; he had been ailing for a
long time. He learnt the technical part of his art
at the Imperial Academy and Arts and Crafts
Schools, but could not accommodate himself to the
old order of things there. An exhibition in Vienna
of the pictures of the Munich Secession revealed to
him the true direction which he had hitherto sought
in vain, and marked the real beginning of his
career. His strength lay in the rendering of light
and colour, his pictures of the Schollbrunn gardens
being admirable in this respect.
A new-comer at this exhibition was Felix
Albrecht Harta, an artist of distinction. He was
welcome, for he had much to say that was of
interest. Many of his pictures are scenes from
Bruges, but his subjects are very varied, ranging
as they do from such works as these to portraits
and everything which lies between. Josef Stoitzner
exhibited many works, yet there was no redun-
dancy of subject, while in all of them earnest study
was shown, for his is a true, earnest, and poetic
BY ANTON NOVAK
59
“ KRUMMAU, BOHEMIA”
The spring exhibition of
THE VIENNA SECESSION.
The Spring Exhibition at the Secession
Gallery reached so high a level that it won great
praise on all sides. The general excellence of the
works shown proved how lofty are the ideals
animating the members of this Society. The
Vienna Secessionists have one desire in common—-
to show their best work, and their productions
always bear the impress of genuine sincerity. In
their individual contributions there is abundant
diversity of subject and method, and consequently
their corporate exhibitions are not open to the
charge of being monotonous.
The chief guest on this occasion was Alfred
Philippe Roll, a collection of whose works filled
the large hall. Most of the pictures, which
included a considerable number of pastels, were
lent by their owners, the Musee du Luxembourg,
the City of Paris, and private persons, and the
Viennese public, who have always shown a par-
tiality for French art, found in M. Roll’s work
much to their liking.
Another point of interest was a memorial exhibi-
tion of the works of Franz Jaschke, a member of
the Secession who died a short time ago. This
artist painted but little; he had been ailing for a
long time. He learnt the technical part of his art
at the Imperial Academy and Arts and Crafts
Schools, but could not accommodate himself to the
old order of things there. An exhibition in Vienna
of the pictures of the Munich Secession revealed to
him the true direction which he had hitherto sought
in vain, and marked the real beginning of his
career. His strength lay in the rendering of light
and colour, his pictures of the Schollbrunn gardens
being admirable in this respect.
A new-comer at this exhibition was Felix
Albrecht Harta, an artist of distinction. He was
welcome, for he had much to say that was of
interest. Many of his pictures are scenes from
Bruges, but his subjects are very varied, ranging
as they do from such works as these to portraits
and everything which lies between. Josef Stoitzner
exhibited many works, yet there was no redun-
dancy of subject, while in all of them earnest study
was shown, for his is a true, earnest, and poetic
BY ANTON NOVAK
59
“ KRUMMAU, BOHEMIA”