Studio: international art (23.1901)

Studio- Talk

In the Hospital Chapel some new decoration J "V ERLIN.—The latter part of the winter art
has just been erected, so commonplace and so I <J season produced nothing remarkable.

devoid of interest as to be unworthy of description. ■ It is to be regretted that the Fritz

When clever and capable decorative artists exist, * Gurlitt Art Gallery, wherein for years

it is a pity that their services are not requisitioned past so many rising artists have made their first

for work of this kind. appearance, will shortly close its portals. The

- proprietor, Herr Waldecker, intends to confine

The jury of selection for the Venice Inter- himself for the future to the publication of
national Exhibition has recently inspected a large engravings. Despite the large number of show-
number of works sent in for acceptance. The rooms in Berlin, the lack of art of the highest
members of the jury were the painters Previati and order, such as we generally see at the Gurlitt
Fragiacomo, the sculptors Butti and Trentacoste, Gallery, is conspicuous. The exhibitions at
and the art critic Primo Levi. Among the painters Schulte's Salon are merely the reflections of the
whose works have been accepted are Borgo Manieri, fashion of the moment, and, artistically, count for
Bertani, Belloni, Vezetti, Macchiati, Castelli, little. Here and there we find a genuine work
Chiesa, Cavaleri, Carozzi, Grubicy, Longoni, and of art, but it has to be picked out, as it were, from
Quarantelli; while the successful sculptors are a rubbish heap. Among the worthier exhibitors at
Bialetti and Quadrelli. U. M. de V. Schulte's are several members of the Hamburg Art

Club — Ernst Eitner,
Artur lilies, Siebelist,
and Schaper.

An exhibition of
modern portraits, the
proceeds of which are
to be devoted to charity,
was opened in April in
the Kiinstlerhaus. The
general level was dis-
tinctly low, but was re-
deemed by contributions
from Bocklin, Lieber-
mann, Leibl, Stauffer-
Bern, Dora Hitz, Anders
Zorn, Rysselberghe, and
Lesser Ury.

The National Gallery
is to be congratulated
on its exhibition of the
Konigs collection. Felix
Konigs, who was a
banker, died last year at
Berlin. He came of a
Rhineland stock, and
during the last sixteen
years of his life had
collected a very valuable
gallery of paintings and
sculptures by modern
artists. The catalogue
of the exhibition in-

BY PROFESSOR J. KASTNER AND HIS PUPILS duded thirty-IOUr WOrks

(See Prague Studio-Talk) of sculpture and seventy

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