Studio: international art (17.1899)

The Munich Secessionists Exhibition

traits. Sauter, in addition to the portrait already
referred to, sends an allegorical figure painting,
Inspiration, while Cameron’s and Roche’s land-
scapes—notably The Bridge by the former—are
the delight and admiration of all beholders.
Maurice Greiflenhagen sends his well-known
Annunciation, and other notable representatives
of the Anglo-Saxon race are J. M. Dow, Marianne
Stokes, Austen-Brown, Priestman, George Thom-
son, Alfred Withers, Paterson, Whitelaw Hamil-
ton, Stevenson, Spence, Grosvenor Thomas, and
Brangwyn. Among the prominent Frenchmen
are Claude Monet, Degas, Carriere, Blanche (who
sends a portrait of the late Aubrey Beardsley), and
Besnard.

The sculpture galleries are but scantily furnished.
Adolf Hildebrand has a number of his finest works
at Berlin and Dresden, and we at Munich have to
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rest content with a
most characteristic
bust of the venerable
savant. Max von Pet-
tenkofer, a portrait in
relief of H. von Billow,
and a large relief—
Dionysos. Good work
is also shown by some
of our younger sculp-
tors—Hermann Hahn,
Hugo Kaufmann, and
E. Dittler. The well-
known painter, Franz
Stuck, who, by the way,
exhibits a large oil-
painting, Sisyphus, also
shows himself a sculp-
tor of no little merit in
his small bronze figures
of a Centaur and a
Dancing Girl. In the
Black and White sec-
tion Otto Greiner’s re-
markable lithographs
are attracting consider-
able attention. They
have all the depth
and power of copper
engravings or etch-
ings.

Applied Art has
found a congenial
home in the “ Seces-
sion ” Galleries. The
committee known as
the “ Ausschuss fur Kunst im Handwerk ” invited
H. van de Velde to make himself known to the
Munich public, and the Belgian artist accord-
ingly responded by fitting up a study in most taste-
ful fashion. The same committee also got together
an excellent collection of modern jewellery, and
commissioned three young Munich artists, Fritz
Erler—who has lately become known to the readers
of The Studio—Bruno Paul and Bernhard
Pankok, to decorate several small rooms, their
designs being executed by the “ Vereinigten Werk-
stiitten.” G. Keyssner.

Book-plate collectors will welcome the engraving,
after an excellent drawing by Arthur Ellis, of C. W.
Sherborn at work in his study, which has been
recently published by Messrs. Ellis and Elvy, of
New Bond Street, London.