Studio: international art (16.1899)

Modern German Lithography

Count Leopold Kalckreuth, the younger, has introduces them very ably in the shadow produced

established his position as a painter quite firmly on the water by the hull of the boat. It is almost

now, with his canvases in the Royal Galleries incredible, but it seems that all this colour-sym-

of Munich and Dresden. Kalckreuth has litho- phony has been attained by the use of four stones

graphed the portrait of his little son, drawn with a only. His On Foard of the Schooner "Durango " is

brush on stone in imitation of a sepia drawing, and not quite so successful. Apparently only five

the head of a little girl, done with the help of four stones were used, but the effect is patchy compared

stones. The outline plate shows heavy lines, with the first-named work.

making the whole seem more like an old woodcut Friedrich Kallmorgen is, perhaps, the one who

in colours than anything else. His Field Labour, achieves his effects with the greatest ease and cer-

a woman of the Millet type, delving, whilst her tainty. Nothing can be better and simpler than

baby sits on the ground close by, was done in his two wonderful Amsterdam Nocturnes. With

single colour with a tone plate, while The 'Cellist but a blue, a brown, and a yellow stone, he brings

is an excellent performance in chromo-litho- about a most marvellous effect of a street in wet

graphy done with four s/ones—the mahogany red weather at night. Kallmorgen hails from Altona,

of the 'cello shining out of its dark, low-toned from the seashore, and it is in the country of the

surroundings most effectively. sea, Holland, that he has made most of his studies.

Carlos Grethe, who also has a painting in the Among his lithographs there are two very admir-
Dresden Gallery, has apparently had so much of able studies of little Dutch girls, one in colours,
his time taken up with setting the lithography the other in sanguine. He has also published a
scheme in motion that he has not found leisure to set of picture post-cards, Von der Wasserkant, most
do much himself. There is a splendid chromo- of them showing us Dutch peasant girls and fisher-
lithograph by him, however, called Funning In, a men's children. They were drawn upon the stone
fishing smack sailing up alongside a wooden pier— by him ; the colour scheme is broad and simple,
evening effect. A wall of heavy clouds is building from four to six stones being employed for each,
up on the horizon, but above it the sky is full of a The members of the Kiinstlerbund have, by the
misty, yellow sunset light, which is reflected by the way, also published a set of twelve picture post-
muddy shore water. He likes strong fantastic cards. Kallmorgen, Hein, Sch6nleber,Volckmann,
colour effects in his painting, and here, too, he and Wulff have, perhaps, contributed the best ones.

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FROM A LITHOGRAPH BY CARLOS GRETHE