DOI issue:
Nr. 115 (October 1902)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19877#0075
Studio- Talk
FAMILY OF BEARS" BY RICHARD FRIESE
(Photograph by Richard Boll)
special problem, as did also the juries of the by his brush. Still, there is the reality of true and
Diisseldorf, Karlsruhe, Munich, and all the rest of noble living in his work. Max Schlichting wisely
his summer's German exhibitions. shuns the attempt of interpreting the ways of the
country folks to town-bred men and women.
He boldly shows the town-bred people in the
The room of the seceded Secessionists, how- attempt to live their natural lives at their favourite
ever, has succeeded best—the Segantini room at seaside resorts, or in their winter haunts, such as
Karlsruhe perhaps excepted—in eliminating as the Metropoltheater. Paul Hoeniger's Im Wasch-
far as possible every trace of the merely accidental haus appears to those who studied the earlier work
in hanging. One or two frames of new make and of this faithful interpreter of Berlin life the ripened
modern gilding are perhaps just a trifle "loud." fruit of much study—a something deeper and
The amusing part of the whole thing to the quiet clearer than the mere casual cleverness of super-
onlooker is, however, that the ever-combated acci- ficial observation. Hans Looschen is not essen-
dental (das Zufallige) makes its presence felt, in spite tially a Berliner; he has made a study of Nature
of every precautionary measure. To be sure, a to gain as it were an entrance into fairyland,
mere accident has rendered this exhibition within A Ramseskopf, a mask of his, is hung below
an exhibition (ecclesiola in ecclesia) characteristic of a Waldhexe, a forest sorceress, by Miss Wolfthorn,
the contrast of town and country life in the and involuntarily provokes a strong contrast of the
Fatherland. To a certain extent the exhibition is masculine and feminine in art. Miss Wolfthorn
what in England would result in a cockney's im- has succeeded in hitting off the essentials of the
pressions of country life. In Otto H. Engel's irritating restlessness, the elements of the demon
work this impression is strongest. He never quite in modern womankind, in quite a masterful way.
succeeds in making you forget that he never lived But somehow, in spite of this interesting way of
the life of the people to whom you are introduced solving a problem essential to town life, there is,
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FAMILY OF BEARS" BY RICHARD FRIESE
(Photograph by Richard Boll)
special problem, as did also the juries of the by his brush. Still, there is the reality of true and
Diisseldorf, Karlsruhe, Munich, and all the rest of noble living in his work. Max Schlichting wisely
his summer's German exhibitions. shuns the attempt of interpreting the ways of the
country folks to town-bred men and women.
He boldly shows the town-bred people in the
The room of the seceded Secessionists, how- attempt to live their natural lives at their favourite
ever, has succeeded best—the Segantini room at seaside resorts, or in their winter haunts, such as
Karlsruhe perhaps excepted—in eliminating as the Metropoltheater. Paul Hoeniger's Im Wasch-
far as possible every trace of the merely accidental haus appears to those who studied the earlier work
in hanging. One or two frames of new make and of this faithful interpreter of Berlin life the ripened
modern gilding are perhaps just a trifle "loud." fruit of much study—a something deeper and
The amusing part of the whole thing to the quiet clearer than the mere casual cleverness of super-
onlooker is, however, that the ever-combated acci- ficial observation. Hans Looschen is not essen-
dental (das Zufallige) makes its presence felt, in spite tially a Berliner; he has made a study of Nature
of every precautionary measure. To be sure, a to gain as it were an entrance into fairyland,
mere accident has rendered this exhibition within A Ramseskopf, a mask of his, is hung below
an exhibition (ecclesiola in ecclesia) characteristic of a Waldhexe, a forest sorceress, by Miss Wolfthorn,
the contrast of town and country life in the and involuntarily provokes a strong contrast of the
Fatherland. To a certain extent the exhibition is masculine and feminine in art. Miss Wolfthorn
what in England would result in a cockney's im- has succeeded in hitting off the essentials of the
pressions of country life. In Otto H. Engel's irritating restlessness, the elements of the demon
work this impression is strongest. He never quite in modern womankind, in quite a masterful way.
succeeds in making you forget that he never lived But somehow, in spite of this interesting way of
the life of the people to whom you are introduced solving a problem essential to town life, there is,
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