International studio (45.1912)

Studio-Talk

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HERR FR. J. BRAKL’S HOUSE AT MUNICH
PROF. EMANUEL VON SEIDL, ARCHITECT


One of the most attractive features in the
American section is one wall in the large room,
which is devoted to the work of the plein-
air men—Frederick Carl Frieseke, who figured
so well at the Venice Exhibition of two years
back, Richard E. Miller, Childe Hassam, and
Frank Benson. A little corner of living sun-
light I found this part of the great room; and I
believe it would be a difficult feat to live with
these pictures and remain in a gloomy attitude
towards life. Not only this, but they are also a very
valuable hint as to what—outside purely decora-
tive art—is most vital and most modern in the
American art of to-day. Portraits, of course, are
there—the superb Whistler Portrait of Sarasate,
loaned by the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg,
Irving R. Wiles’s brilliant study of Mlle. Gerville-
Reache as “ Carmen,” the Mother and Child of de
Forest Brush, very admirable in its restraint and
severity, and several portraits by John Sargent,
noticeable among them being Mrs. Fiske Warren
and her Daughter, and Miss M. Carey Thomas.
One of the best portraits of women in the exhi-
bition is that which we here reproduce by Julius

RECEPTION-ROOM IN HERR BRAKL’S HOUSE, MUNICH. DESIGNED BY PROF. E. VON SEIDL, DECORATIVE PAINTINGS
BY PROF. FRITZ ERLER
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