Studio: international art (34.1905)

Munich Students

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"a lady student" by a. s. covey

The attitude of the student towards his professor
is about that of the lowliest English subject towards
the King. There may be much hilarity in the
class-room at the moment his step is heard outside,
but at the opening of the door instantly every man
jumps to attention, and a pin dropped could be
heard during the time of his stay. Heads are
bowed in humility as he passes from one easel to
another, and on leaving, the atelier door is opened
wide for him and the students bow low. It is told
how one morning, during criticism, an irrelevant
American student was whistling softly to himself
when one of the Germans rushed up to him on
tiptoe and said, with excitement, " You must not
whistle when the professor is here ! "

Ever)- new student has always to give a
" spread " shortly after his joining the class—not an
elaborate one, of course, the regulation supplies

being of a very simple kind. After the master
has left the room the new student sends the model
out for bottled beer and sausages, as many for each
student as his income allows, and a feast takes
place with toasts to everyone—to the model, to the
old masters of Deutschland, and the Venus de
Milo in the hall.

There are many interesting and amusing cha-
racters among the models, many of whom have
been posing in the schools and ateliers for three
generations. They come from all over the world,
and from eight to nine o'clock even- morning they
throng the great stone steps leading to the Academy
and on into the main hall, dressed in the costume
of their country—Arabs, Italians, rugged peasants
from the Tyrol, dusky beauties from the ancient
American Indians and negroes, fair-haired peasants
from the Bavarian hills, grey-bearded old men who

'•THE I'ROFESSOR" BY A. S. COVEY