DOI issue:
No. 87 (June, 1900)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0074
Studio- Talk
place for Herkomer beside Van Dyck, Reynolds since his youth a friend of Leibl, with whom he
and Gainsborough ! lives in a secluded village among the mountains
- above Aiblings, is not so well known as he deserves
There was good landscape work seen at Schulte's to be, even in Germany. On this account it is
from the easels of the young "Worpsweder" artists ; pleasant to be able, through the kindness of Herr
but most of the paintings were too large, and some- E. Seeger, to reproduce some of his paintings in
times over-laden with colour. G. Schonleber, of these columns. He has chosen his subjects among
Karlsruhe, made a brave show with his strong, the Bavarian highlands where he dwells, and nothing
stormy landscapes, some from Holland, some from is too simple to attract his keen observation,
his native land. Equally good were the canvases -
sent by Fritz'Thaulow (including several views of Walter Leistikow of . Berlin (see The Studio,
the old bridge at Verona), and the tender, finely- Vol. XL, p. 127) has repeatedly endeavoured to
conceived paintings by Whitelaw Hamilton. achieve good decorative work; and beauty of
- colouring and simplicity of line should surely
At Gurlitt's we have once more seen numerous appeal to the beholder. Yet now we find him
paintings by Leibl, and several landscapes from returning to the realistic reproduction of actual
the brush of Wilhelm Sperl. This exquisite artist, detail—the foaming water and the play of the
. setting sun upon them;
only the slowly circling
gulls reminding us that he
was wont often to use
motifs of the same sort for
ornamental purposes. In
any case, Leistikow, with
his sense of style, his power,
and his brilliant colouring
—displayed to the full as
they are in his simple scenes
from the neighbourhood of
Berlin—remains in the front
rank of our landscapists.
We are indebted to the
Casserei Salon for bringing
before the public the works
of the great foreign artists.
There we first saw many
paintings by Monet and
Degas; there, too, a small
collection of old English
paintings by Reynolds,
Gainsborough, and Rom-
ney, with numerous small
studies by Constable; and
there we now have various
pictures from the Fontaine-
bleau School, and other
charming things by Monet,
Sisley, and Pissarro.
Among the Germans re-
presented are W. Triibner
and Slevogt, who both
reveal great but scarcely
LANDSCAPE BY W. SPERL ° . 3
(By permission of. E. Seeger, Esq.) matured gifts for colour.
56
place for Herkomer beside Van Dyck, Reynolds since his youth a friend of Leibl, with whom he
and Gainsborough ! lives in a secluded village among the mountains
- above Aiblings, is not so well known as he deserves
There was good landscape work seen at Schulte's to be, even in Germany. On this account it is
from the easels of the young "Worpsweder" artists ; pleasant to be able, through the kindness of Herr
but most of the paintings were too large, and some- E. Seeger, to reproduce some of his paintings in
times over-laden with colour. G. Schonleber, of these columns. He has chosen his subjects among
Karlsruhe, made a brave show with his strong, the Bavarian highlands where he dwells, and nothing
stormy landscapes, some from Holland, some from is too simple to attract his keen observation,
his native land. Equally good were the canvases -
sent by Fritz'Thaulow (including several views of Walter Leistikow of . Berlin (see The Studio,
the old bridge at Verona), and the tender, finely- Vol. XL, p. 127) has repeatedly endeavoured to
conceived paintings by Whitelaw Hamilton. achieve good decorative work; and beauty of
- colouring and simplicity of line should surely
At Gurlitt's we have once more seen numerous appeal to the beholder. Yet now we find him
paintings by Leibl, and several landscapes from returning to the realistic reproduction of actual
the brush of Wilhelm Sperl. This exquisite artist, detail—the foaming water and the play of the
. setting sun upon them;
only the slowly circling
gulls reminding us that he
was wont often to use
motifs of the same sort for
ornamental purposes. In
any case, Leistikow, with
his sense of style, his power,
and his brilliant colouring
—displayed to the full as
they are in his simple scenes
from the neighbourhood of
Berlin—remains in the front
rank of our landscapists.
We are indebted to the
Casserei Salon for bringing
before the public the works
of the great foreign artists.
There we first saw many
paintings by Monet and
Degas; there, too, a small
collection of old English
paintings by Reynolds,
Gainsborough, and Rom-
ney, with numerous small
studies by Constable; and
there we now have various
pictures from the Fontaine-
bleau School, and other
charming things by Monet,
Sisley, and Pissarro.
Among the Germans re-
presented are W. Triibner
and Slevogt, who both
reveal great but scarcely
LANDSCAPE BY W. SPERL ° . 3
(By permission of. E. Seeger, Esq.) matured gifts for colour.
56