Studio: international art (16.1899)

Modern German Lithography

several fine studies of trees on the stone, such, for lithograph is The Rising Moon, which is done with
instance, as Birches and Sycamores. Reminiscence the help of two stones only, and tinted rather
of an Old Town is a view of an ancient village than coloured. The disk of the moon is just
lying along a hillside ; the walls and roofs are kept rising over a broad landscape, and is beginning to
in a plain tone of red, and the sky is of a greyish- fill the misty atmosphere with a mysterious hazy
blue tint; the outline drawing is in heavy lines sheen. Gustav Gamper, whose home is in
which produce a woodcut effect. The Country Dresden, and whose connection with the Karlsruhe
Church is Hoch's most successful effort in chromo- Kiinstlerbund is probably only of a temporary
lithography. H. Matthies-Masuren is the author nature, is one of those unfortunate people to whom
of a superb coloured design called At the Pond, fate has been too liberal in the bestowing of talents.
Night is setting in, and through some trees on He has, with some show of success, attempted
each side we look upon a sheet of water reflect- music, poetry, and painting, and is still vacillating
ing the dark blue sky. G. Kampmann's effects between them, still unable to concentrate his
are quiet, but none the less excellent. His best energy upon perfecting himself in any one of the

three. His lithograph
called Requiem, represent-
ing the east end of a
chapel seen against dark
trees and a golden sky, is
nothing remarkable, but
The Valley is a singularly
fine design. With four
stones he has produced
a telling colour effect—
green patches of pasture
in a high bleak mountain
valley, the dull earthy
yellow of which is other-
wise relieved only by the
grey of the rocks. E. R.
Weiss' most interesting
landscape, The Brook, has
similar good qualities.
He uses three stones—
the black outline, a saffron
yellow, and a dull purple
for clouds and water. He
has further lithographed a
fine profile portrait of Ed.
Walther, somewhat like
Thoma's work in feeling,
printed in two colours,
brown and blue.

This short account has,
I think, dealt with the
best lithographs produced
at Karlsruhe, and one
must, at least on the
strength of the work done
so far, rank the other men
below those referred to
here. Particular mention
must, however, be made

1 the valley' from a lithograph by g. gamper of H. Daur, H. Gattiker,

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