DOI Heft:
No. 53 (August, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0225
Studio- Talk
SALON D'HONNEUR AT THE BRUSSELS EXHIBITION
Miiller-Breslau, Count Kalckreuth, Kuehl, Thoma,
and Lenbach.
It is a sad but true fact that the picture market
on the Continent is not established on a firm basis.
Private purchasers invariably beat down the price
of paintings that they wish to buy, and artists
unfortunately often acquiesce. The Society of
Dresden Artists, who have inaugurated the present
exhibition, have unfortunately sanctioned this prac-
tice by adopting it with reference to their fellow-
artists. Here, as in German shows generally, a
picture lottery is run in connection with the exhibi-
tion. The committee that selected and bought
the prizes for this lottery from among the works
exhibited acted like an ordinary private purchaser,
beating down the price, and not even letting the
artists concerned know to whom they were selling
their pictures.
Our sister city Leipsic has its exhibition too.
It is principally industrial, very noisy, very well
patronised, and as full of "side-shows" as an
American circus. One of the principal of these
is the hall devoted to the fine arts, and its " clou "
is Max Klinger's huge canvas, Christ in Olympus^
200
which lie has at last finished. I am afraid that it
is a little too philosophical and allegorical to be
altogether enjoyable as a work of art. Like the
Judgment of Paris, it presents the union of sculp-
ture and painting, in which Klinger delights.
The Grassi Museum at Leipsic has just opened
a very interesting retrospective exhibition of applied
art. All articles have been loaned by collectors in
Saxony and Thuringia. The Meissen-china,
the carved ivories and the majolica wares are
especially good. There are also some fine old
paintings, above all Diirer's portrait of himself,
painted 1493, now in the possession of Mr. H.
Felix. It will pay travellers passing through
Leipsic to stop a day for this show alone.
H. VV. S.
BRUSSELS.—When the Colonial section
was established in the Antwerp Inter-
national Exhibition of 1894, the
committee paid far more attention to
the practical side of the matter than
to any other ; and thus it was that the few works
of art in ivory displayed—or at any rate deposited
SALON D'HONNEUR AT THE BRUSSELS EXHIBITION
Miiller-Breslau, Count Kalckreuth, Kuehl, Thoma,
and Lenbach.
It is a sad but true fact that the picture market
on the Continent is not established on a firm basis.
Private purchasers invariably beat down the price
of paintings that they wish to buy, and artists
unfortunately often acquiesce. The Society of
Dresden Artists, who have inaugurated the present
exhibition, have unfortunately sanctioned this prac-
tice by adopting it with reference to their fellow-
artists. Here, as in German shows generally, a
picture lottery is run in connection with the exhibi-
tion. The committee that selected and bought
the prizes for this lottery from among the works
exhibited acted like an ordinary private purchaser,
beating down the price, and not even letting the
artists concerned know to whom they were selling
their pictures.
Our sister city Leipsic has its exhibition too.
It is principally industrial, very noisy, very well
patronised, and as full of "side-shows" as an
American circus. One of the principal of these
is the hall devoted to the fine arts, and its " clou "
is Max Klinger's huge canvas, Christ in Olympus^
200
which lie has at last finished. I am afraid that it
is a little too philosophical and allegorical to be
altogether enjoyable as a work of art. Like the
Judgment of Paris, it presents the union of sculp-
ture and painting, in which Klinger delights.
The Grassi Museum at Leipsic has just opened
a very interesting retrospective exhibition of applied
art. All articles have been loaned by collectors in
Saxony and Thuringia. The Meissen-china,
the carved ivories and the majolica wares are
especially good. There are also some fine old
paintings, above all Diirer's portrait of himself,
painted 1493, now in the possession of Mr. H.
Felix. It will pay travellers passing through
Leipsic to stop a day for this show alone.
H. VV. S.
BRUSSELS.—When the Colonial section
was established in the Antwerp Inter-
national Exhibition of 1894, the
committee paid far more attention to
the practical side of the matter than
to any other ; and thus it was that the few works
of art in ivory displayed—or at any rate deposited