DOI issue:
No. 40 (July, 1896)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0136
Studio- Talk
but they were crowded and spoilt by the mass of
rubbish around them. All this has been altered
now, and the result is a most respectable all-round
display, with some particularly good work in the
department of landscape.
Special collections form an important feature of
the exhibition, two of the rooms being devoted
to the works of Moritz von Schwind, who was
born in 1804 in Vienna, and died in 1871 in
Munich. But little known abroad, Schwind was,
nevertheless, one of the most distinctive and most
imposing figures in modern German art. The
romance of Germany is realised in his paintings,
just as Schubert realised it in music, and Eichen-
dorff in poetry; and with the same deep feeling,
the same fine sense of the magic of saga and
legend, all expressed with the harmonious grace of
his artistic method. It must be admitted that
Schwind—as was also the fate of all the German
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artists of the first half of the century—never
became complete master of technique and colour-
ing ; but his simple fancy and aristocratic taste
are beyond reproach. The best of his oil-paintings
are in the Schach Gallery, but several very charm-
ing and striking examples are, nevertheless, to be
seen in this collection, which is particularly rich in
drawings and water-colour sketches for his Cycle
of Fairy Tales, and also his frescoes for the Vienna
Opera House. _
Although the spring exhibition of the " Seces-
sion " brought out several pictures of the early
years of Hans Thoma, the full development of that
painter's work may best be studied at the Glass
Palace, in a collection arranged by himself, and
containing his works from 1861 to 1896. His
earliest picture, a landscape study in oils, shows a
freshness of colouring and execution which at that
time was by no means general; and although many
of his later things of the sixties and the seventies
but they were crowded and spoilt by the mass of
rubbish around them. All this has been altered
now, and the result is a most respectable all-round
display, with some particularly good work in the
department of landscape.
Special collections form an important feature of
the exhibition, two of the rooms being devoted
to the works of Moritz von Schwind, who was
born in 1804 in Vienna, and died in 1871 in
Munich. But little known abroad, Schwind was,
nevertheless, one of the most distinctive and most
imposing figures in modern German art. The
romance of Germany is realised in his paintings,
just as Schubert realised it in music, and Eichen-
dorff in poetry; and with the same deep feeling,
the same fine sense of the magic of saga and
legend, all expressed with the harmonious grace of
his artistic method. It must be admitted that
Schwind—as was also the fate of all the German
120
artists of the first half of the century—never
became complete master of technique and colour-
ing ; but his simple fancy and aristocratic taste
are beyond reproach. The best of his oil-paintings
are in the Schach Gallery, but several very charm-
ing and striking examples are, nevertheless, to be
seen in this collection, which is particularly rich in
drawings and water-colour sketches for his Cycle
of Fairy Tales, and also his frescoes for the Vienna
Opera House. _
Although the spring exhibition of the " Seces-
sion " brought out several pictures of the early
years of Hans Thoma, the full development of that
painter's work may best be studied at the Glass
Palace, in a collection arranged by himself, and
containing his works from 1861 to 1896. His
earliest picture, a landscape study in oils, shows a
freshness of colouring and execution which at that
time was by no means general; and although many
of his later things of the sixties and the seventies