Studio: international art (28.1903)

Studio- Talk

are to be seen in Tin-
toretto, and, according to
the " Secession," the " be-
ginnings " reached their
end in 1855. Examples
are shown of works by
Tintoretto, Rubens,
Velasquez, Goya, and
other Spanish artists;
Corot and Daumier, and
other French ones; and
a very beautiful example
of Jan Vermeer (1577
—1640), an interior
of the artist's studio,
which Count Czernin
placed at the service
of the "Secession."
This is one of the
most beautiful of the

room at the hagenbu.vd exhibition, arranged by j. urban exhibits. Among the

vienna and h. leffler SCulptOrS of the " Be-

ginning" there are
only three represented,

for "Reynard the Fox," and the latter by some and the period dates from 1725 —1855.

coloured drawings of the Dragon Slayer, which are -

very clever; while Georg Gerlach

(Vienna) and Adolf Lunz (Karlsruhe)

showed a fine feeling and delicacy of , ' " x\ - ' l^fc^^.

colour in their landscapes. Among mmmaj
the sculpture were A Study in Stone, by .
Adolf Schnabel, a young artist of con-
siderable talent, and the work of another

young sculptor, Rosa Silberer who, in \
her head, Night, shows much power and I

originality. Konrad Widter's Study in . "j| . '1^^,; ,

Marble was worthy of praise, as was
G. Gurschner's small portrait bust of
Monsigneur Pasquineh. -Jag .

" The Development of Impression in
Painting and Sculpture " is the title given
by the "Secession" to its latest exhibition,
which provides another proof of the real
efforts the Society is making to educate
the public. Moreover, Prof. Muther, of
Breslau, and Julius Meier Graefe, of Paris,
were invited to lecture at the "Secession "
on the subject of " Impressionism."

This Exhibition is at once historical
and representative, many of the pictures

having been lent for the occasion. The "~ " ' ~"

beginnings of impressionism in painting "night" by rosa silberer

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