International studio (48.1913)

Scandinavian Art


Collection of Dr. Alfred Bramsen, Copenhagen
SUNBEAMS

BY VILHELM HAMMERSHOI

bition. It will indeed doubtless be considered
much too advanced by those somnolent beings
who are in the habit of regarding art as a station-
ary product—as something which, if not reminis-
cent and reposeful in appeal, is unworthy of
serious consideration.
It is owing mainly to the regrettable absence
of the members of the Konstnarsforbundet, that
close corporation which never exhibits save in
full force and entirely by itself, in exalted and
imperious isolation, that the work of the Swedes

herewith appears less advanced in feeling than
that of the other Scandinavian countries. It was
a question of the Konstnarsforbundet or the rest
of Sweden, and the decision was, alas, made in
favor of non-members of this unquestionably able
but dictatorial organization, the only exception
being Prince Eugen, who graciously consented to
lend his support to the undertaking, There are
nevertheless in the work of the Swedes as here
represented notes which are new to the art-loving
public of America. We are of course familiar

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