Studio: international art (26.1902)

Studio- Talk

our thinking some of Sandreuter's most
characteristic work is to be found in the
domain of pure landscape and portrait-
painting. Here he was entirely himself
and had but one master—viz. Nature.
He approached Nature with frank delight,
but with a selective taste. He could
render the austerity of the withdrawing
Alps, but the more homely aspects of
Nature appealed most powerfully to him.
He revelled in the colour, in the play
of light and shade on plain, field, and
orchard. "The stream's secret" by
Rhine, Doubs, Aar, or Sarine was known
to him, and, though attracted by the near
rather than the distant, he had that
sureness and sensitiveness of vision which
is never caught in the meshes ot mere
detail, but penetrates to and sees strongly,
after its own fashion, the essential charac-
ter of a landscape. Such evocations of
quiet nature as A Field in Spring at
Efringen, The Rhine near Basel, not to
mention others, are as characteristic as
they are charming. Sandreuter's gallery
of portraits is worthy of a special study.
The Swiss-German type of child-life is to
be found here portrayed with singular
truth and beauty.

portrait of a boy by hans sandreuter

to his paintings, and many
of them are too well known
to call for further mention
here. Reminiscent as
much of Hans Sandreuter's
work as a painter is of his
master, Arnold Boecklin,
especially in those paint-
ings which deal with mytho-
logical subjects, it is a
mistake to suppose that we
have here simply the fine
echo of a living voice.
Doubtless the pupil owed
a great deal to the master,
but the achievements ot
the former have still a dis-
tinct character and beauty
of their own. And yet,
beautiful as are those em-
bodiments of mythological
or symbolic conception, to room decoration by hans sandreuter

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