Studio: international art (27.1903)

Joseph Victor Kramer is, like the before- study of the human figure. Portraits and subjects
mentioned group of artists, a member of the taken from the Holy Scripture have occupied most
Secessionists, or " Vereinigung bildender Kiinstler of his time ; and about a year ago he undertook a
Oesterreichs," an artist of great earnestness in the voyage to Palestine and Egypt, where his studies

with brush and pen were
exceedingly strong and
vivid. A number of them
were reproduced in the
" Ver Sacrum," and the
illustration here given on
page 223 may be counted
among his best.

W. S.

B

UDAPEST.— An
exhibition has
recently been
opened at Buda-
pest of paintings by the
late Ladislaus von Paal,
a Hungarian artist who
died in Paris in 1879.
The contemporary of
Munkacsy, the influence
of that great master was
very distinctly noticeable
in his work, but he was
also much affected by the
French realists. There is
genuine poetry in his land-
scapes ; but his fellow
countrymen, who are not
' top-heavy" from the pen drawing by friedrich konig altogether in sympathy with

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