International studio (48.1913)

Rudolf Bern

A NOTE ON THE
WORK OF
.THE CZECH
PAINTER, RUDOLF
BEM.
The Czech painter,
Rudolf Bern, whose work
inlandscape and figure
painting is represented in
the accompanying illustra-
tions, is a member of the
“Manes” association of
artists in Prague. One of
the most talented pupils of
the academy under Prof.
Hynais, and winner of many
prizes, he made his debut in
1893 with the exhibition of
a Head of Christ, for which
prominent architects who of late years have been
devoting earnest attention to this domain. Some
of these habitations were quite unpretentious,
others more imposing, but all showed sound know¬
ledge of construction and much right thought in
planning, comfort and utility being kept well in
view.
Enough has been said to show how deep are the
roots of modern decorative art in Austria, and that
the branches of the tree are spreading in every
direction. Nothing could help to make this fact
more convincing than the recent exhibition of the
work of the students, male and female, of the
Imperial Schools for Arts and Crafts. But this
must be left for a future occasion. Here it must
suffice to say that, together with the Austrian
Museum exhibition, it formed an organic whole.
A. S. Levetus.


The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, of which
Mr. Walter Crane is president, is now holding its
tenth exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery, 5ia New
Bond Street, and the exhibition will remain open
until the end of January. It has not been possible
for us to review this display in the present number,
and we have therefore been obliged to reserve our
comments on it until next month, when we hope to
give illustrations of many of. the objects on view,
as we have done on the occasions of previous
exhibitions. We desire at the same time to thank
those of the exhibitors who have been good enough
to furnish us with authorisation to photograph their
exhibits or have sent us photographs of these.
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he was later awarded the Haag gold medal and the
“Grand Prix.” Bern very early turned his atten-
tion to portrait-painting and soon gained repute
as the painter of the highest Bohemian nobility
and Prague society. He had no sooner gained
for himself a reputation for portraiture than, having

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CHARCOAL PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER A, K. BY
RUDOLF BEM

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CERAMIC VASES AND FRUIT STAND. DESIGNED BY MICHAEL POWOLNY, EXE-
CUTED AT THE WIENER KERAM1K-WERKSTATTE OF POWOLNY AND LOFFLER