DOI Heft:
No. 181 (March, 1912)
DOI Artikel:Birnbaum, Martin: Maurice Sterne
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43449#0357
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VOL. XLVI. No. 181 Copyright, 1912, by John Lane Company MARCH, 1912
AURICE STERNE
BY MARTIN BIRNBAUM
Less than a year ago, while enjoy-
ing the privilege of examining the in-
teresting collections of Hamilton Field in Brook-
lyn, our attention was arrested by two drawings
which seemed to be the work of some inspired
Italian primitive, and it was an agreeable sur-
prise to learn that they were made by a young
American, Maurice Sterne. A few months later
his name was cited by an almost too discriminat-
ing critic in London as an example of the silent,
hidden worker whose influence was acknowledged
wherever the progress of art was seriously fol-
lowed. Curiosity was naturally aroused by this
chance acquaintance with a new name, but the
determination to meet Sterne was finally reached
after a conversation with Dr. Max J. Friedlander,
Director of the Kupferstich Kabinet in Berlin.
Various Americans were being discussed and the
director admitted their talents and abilities, but
stated that in his opinion only two Americans had
appeared whose influence on graphic art is of
cosmopolitan importance, Whistler and the
promising Maurice Sterne, who lived in Rome.
In summer, however, to avoid the unbearable
heat, Sterne worked in a simple studio at Anticoli-
Corrado, a tiny hill town in the Alban Mountains.
From the window of the slowly moving train
Tivoli can be seen with its waterfalls, ruined tem-
ples, aqueducts and villas and you follow the vale
of the turbid Anio, flowing tumultuously through
groves of silvery green olives and fertile vine-
yards. Dreaming of Horace and his Sabine farm
you arrive at a deserted station on either side of
which stand hills capped by two ancient pic-
turesque towns, Anticoli-Corrado and Roviano.
“Dove sta di casa il Maurizio Sterne?” you
ask a sturdy shepherd passing with his flock. He
points up the long, winding road leading to the
village on the right and informs you that he is one
By Courtesy of The Berlin Photographic Company
CHILDREN WADING ETCHING, BY MAURICE STERNE
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• STUDIO
VOL. XLVI. No. 181 Copyright, 1912, by John Lane Company MARCH, 1912
AURICE STERNE
BY MARTIN BIRNBAUM
Less than a year ago, while enjoy-
ing the privilege of examining the in-
teresting collections of Hamilton Field in Brook-
lyn, our attention was arrested by two drawings
which seemed to be the work of some inspired
Italian primitive, and it was an agreeable sur-
prise to learn that they were made by a young
American, Maurice Sterne. A few months later
his name was cited by an almost too discriminat-
ing critic in London as an example of the silent,
hidden worker whose influence was acknowledged
wherever the progress of art was seriously fol-
lowed. Curiosity was naturally aroused by this
chance acquaintance with a new name, but the
determination to meet Sterne was finally reached
after a conversation with Dr. Max J. Friedlander,
Director of the Kupferstich Kabinet in Berlin.
Various Americans were being discussed and the
director admitted their talents and abilities, but
stated that in his opinion only two Americans had
appeared whose influence on graphic art is of
cosmopolitan importance, Whistler and the
promising Maurice Sterne, who lived in Rome.
In summer, however, to avoid the unbearable
heat, Sterne worked in a simple studio at Anticoli-
Corrado, a tiny hill town in the Alban Mountains.
From the window of the slowly moving train
Tivoli can be seen with its waterfalls, ruined tem-
ples, aqueducts and villas and you follow the vale
of the turbid Anio, flowing tumultuously through
groves of silvery green olives and fertile vine-
yards. Dreaming of Horace and his Sabine farm
you arrive at a deserted station on either side of
which stand hills capped by two ancient pic-
turesque towns, Anticoli-Corrado and Roviano.
“Dove sta di casa il Maurizio Sterne?” you
ask a sturdy shepherd passing with his flock. He
points up the long, winding road leading to the
village on the right and informs you that he is one
By Courtesy of The Berlin Photographic Company
CHILDREN WADING ETCHING, BY MAURICE STERNE
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