Studio: international art (25.1902)

Vienna Secession Exhibition

Ministry for Education. Here we have all grey- ground, seeming to relieve the darkness as a

blues in dark and light shades, relieved by the red- curtain drawn back from a window. Carl Moll

striped dress and brilliant scarlet parasol of a girl (Vienna) has four landscapes, A Pine Forest,
who has come to bargain. Behind are other buyers in Evening Sun, Twilight, and Evening, all painted

blue costumes. A number in the light feathery

of women are seated before ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ manner for which this

a row of tubs of butter artist is deservedly liked,

exposed for sale, bedded I , j Pine Forest being,

in green leaves. Every ■ 'K?BJ perhaps, the artist's best

face is typical, the old j Wkm \'^B 1 work. Ferdinand Schmut-

woman in the front for ''B" B ' zer (Vienna) in his

whom the pleasures of J BHHHk*I i Getreideschober (stacks of

life are past, and the K '^BJ corn), shows much origi-

young one next her who \ . ^^BJ . J nality of treatment and

is enjoying them. Then ( ; . , WT, M fine technique. Fritz

comes the Salzburg Mar- , > ; 1 - ' . i Erler (Munich) in his The

ket, also in grey blues, [ >■,,, ( ; , Plague gives us a mass

and here, too, he has of crude yellows. A

caught the expressions i, j Garden Fete, by Adolf

extremely well. All his . ; . ;: 1 ! : ^ Miinzer, has much that is

peasants differ, as do the | My' -^B ' ' > Spanish in it; nevertheless,

nations from which he . , ; [ i much that is new and in-

has taken his types. teresting; while Erler's

Professor Baron Myr- i| ; painting on wood of a

bach has only sent one K g ■ AtaMM lady at an ebony piano
picture, a study of Firs, might be called a study
which is finely painted j in white-and-black. Max
and cool and fresh to look I \ r Eichler (Munich), A Day
at. Julius Diez (Munich) j t in Autumn, is rich in
is at his best in the Will 1 j phantasy and design: as
o' the Wisp, of which the j i i one looks at it one seems
ground colour is of to see the figures in silent
lavender-blue tinges, a |j j robes moving about in
mist of the same colour the woods. Emil Orlik,
seeming to veil the whole. j ■ ■ I j returned from his long
Here grotesque men are i. stay in Japan, shows some
seated in the leafless !; j excellent examples of his
boughs of old gnarled ^BB^^I<*,*i*'*''4Japanese work, and it
trees, laughing and smok- \ ■ ! would be difficult to find
ing. A second picture, wtttl0tix^i!3KKmlF^r jgmm hjs eqUa] m xylographs.
St. Hubert, has much in . 'BBBB^Mb1' - These wood-cuts are so rich
common with the former 1 j in colour and piquant in ex-
picture as regards treat- pression that one leaves

ment; there are the same "the sleep-walker" by alfonso canciani them with the feeling of

lavender - blues, but the something fresh and

mist is absent. good. Mr. Orlik will

Friedrich Konig (Vienna) sends three pictures, shortly give us an opportunity of seeing his produc-

Afternoon Sun in a Forest, Seclusion, a. hermit tions en masse. Another illustrator of great taste and

.standing near the most pleasant of hermitages, and originality is M. Liebenwein (Burghausen), who, in

The Golden Bird, illustrative of Grimm's fairy story, his series of pictures illustrative of the Goose

Here we have dark fantastic greens, relieved by Maiden, is at his best. The whole story is before

the golden apples on the conventional fairy-story us, and depicted in a noble manner. There are

tree, the bird sitting among its branches; and the geese, stalls, horses, cats, greyhounds, the

the sun, falling through the leaves, lights up the goose maiden, the witch from whom the knight

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