DOI Heft:
No. 64 (July, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Sauter, G.: The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21969#0137
The International Society
Brown. There is no concession, no change, no
difference of “ manner ” : the same belief, the same
quality, the same assertion, with development alone
to mark a period. The values, the quality, the selec-
tion, the reality, the arrangement, make these pic-
tures so beautiful.
What is quality? you may ask. You will never
learn it in a school or from books, but only by
reading in the endless volume of Nature by day
and night.
The black-and-white department is equally rich,
and the expression of thought there not less varied.
Only to mention names like Klinger, Aubrey
Beardsley, Bauer, Pennell, Holroyd, Steinlen,
Walter Crane, J. Pryde, A. Lepere, Charles Keene,
Milcendeau, Hans Thoma, &c., will assure you of
the richness and excellence of the section.
Then the sculpture, which forms another im-
portant factor, is strongly represented by Rodin,
C. Meunier, F. Macmonnies, Ed. Beyrer, Josef
Flossmann, A. St. Gaudens, Moira, Tweed, and
others. Not all the work at this gallery has been
created between May i, 1897, and April 1898.
It is not the year’s art which is shown : there is
no rule about that. And may the International
be spared from many rules ! The contents of the
gallery are spread over a generation, and a good
thing too. Many works have been shown before,
but are received with renewed delight. How good
it is to have the chance of seeing a work of art
again, if one has failed to understand it the first
time; and to have a chance of atoning for former
sins committed when the public mind was under
the yoke of mighty demigods; how delightful,
too, for the connoisseur to see a beautiful thing, at
least for a few months, which he would like to see
every day, but which is buried in private apart-
ments only accessible to few !
Our admiration grows for the plucky pioneers
when we see that some of the works were painted
three decades ago, and our interest doubles as we
compare the early ones with the fruit that they
“VENICE” by FRITZ THAULOW
114
{From a photograph by Carl Hentschel cr Co.)
Brown. There is no concession, no change, no
difference of “ manner ” : the same belief, the same
quality, the same assertion, with development alone
to mark a period. The values, the quality, the selec-
tion, the reality, the arrangement, make these pic-
tures so beautiful.
What is quality? you may ask. You will never
learn it in a school or from books, but only by
reading in the endless volume of Nature by day
and night.
The black-and-white department is equally rich,
and the expression of thought there not less varied.
Only to mention names like Klinger, Aubrey
Beardsley, Bauer, Pennell, Holroyd, Steinlen,
Walter Crane, J. Pryde, A. Lepere, Charles Keene,
Milcendeau, Hans Thoma, &c., will assure you of
the richness and excellence of the section.
Then the sculpture, which forms another im-
portant factor, is strongly represented by Rodin,
C. Meunier, F. Macmonnies, Ed. Beyrer, Josef
Flossmann, A. St. Gaudens, Moira, Tweed, and
others. Not all the work at this gallery has been
created between May i, 1897, and April 1898.
It is not the year’s art which is shown : there is
no rule about that. And may the International
be spared from many rules ! The contents of the
gallery are spread over a generation, and a good
thing too. Many works have been shown before,
but are received with renewed delight. How good
it is to have the chance of seeing a work of art
again, if one has failed to understand it the first
time; and to have a chance of atoning for former
sins committed when the public mind was under
the yoke of mighty demigods; how delightful,
too, for the connoisseur to see a beautiful thing, at
least for a few months, which he would like to see
every day, but which is buried in private apart-
ments only accessible to few !
Our admiration grows for the plucky pioneers
when we see that some of the works were painted
three decades ago, and our interest doubles as we
compare the early ones with the fruit that they
“VENICE” by FRITZ THAULOW
114
{From a photograph by Carl Hentschel cr Co.)