The Munich Secessionists Exhibition

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BY BENNO BECKER

colour, their aim being to attenuate rather than to
over-emphasise. In similar manner Benno Becker’s
landscapes are marked by plain, placid, sometimes
sombre colour tones, mostly of a deep blue-green.
He exhibits this year a beautiful Toskanische Land-
schaft, which has been bought by the Government
for the Munich Pinakothek.

Animal painting is this year particularly well re-

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presented by Hubert von Heyden, who sends
two well-conceived and effective scenes from the
poultry yard, and a brilliant little painting, Wild-
enten.

The exhibition contains, amongst others of only
average merit, some admirable portraits of really
first-class importance. There is, for instance, P. S.
Kroyer’s admirable group of seven sportsmen,
resting with their dogs on
the hillside, and looking
down on the sunny plain
below-—-a masterly work,
figures and landscape alike
being treated with wonder-
ful skill. Then we have
Anders Zorn’s fine por-
trait of the famous Berlin
painter, Max Liebermann,
and George Sauter, the
talented Bavarian painter,
with a delicately coloured
portrait of Fritz von Uhde.
Cameron and Roche are
represented by graceful
and well-painted portraits
of ladies ; while the por-
trait by Seroff, the Russian
artist, is one of the best in
the whole exhibition, and
is greatly admired, as it
deserves.

Some of the Munich

BY' ADELBERT NIEMEYER