Studio: international art (34.1905)

Munich Students

.STUDY OF A CHILD BY II. VOLKERT

during exhibition time at the close of the year's
work, when he is given the freedom of the other
ateliers, and then for the first time during the
whole of his work there it seems to occur to
him that there have been others at work in the
Academy besides himself.

These exhibitions at the close of the Academy
classes in July are very interesting and quite
characteristic. The whole of the year's work is
submitted to each class professor, and he chooses
the pictures or drawings he considers the best.
These may be framed or not, just as the student
likes, may be hung or tacked on the wall of the
class-room, or tumbled in artistic disorder on the
floor, any way that suits the fancy of the student
on the day of sending in. The work of arrang-
ing is left to the students themselves, and most
of the canvases are not signed, every man being
willing to let his work simply stand as the product
of the Academy. The professors confer honourable
mention for those working in classes and medals
for those in private ateliers.
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The German art student is not given to forming
clubs or societies as other students are. They
simply go in little cliques, and have their favoured
haunts, the Cafe Stefany and the Cafe Minerva
being the chief rendezvous, where they sit into the
small hours drinking beer and smoking pipes.
The Cafe Simplicissimus is one of the most famous
resorts for artists and art students in Munich,
a quaint place with caricatures of its curious
patrons done mostly by the students. It is a
place where everybody seems to be very much at
home. There is a piano and organ which anyone
from any country is quite at liberty to play, although
there is a regular performer who seems always to
choose the most funereal tunes for the organ and
the very liveliest ones for the piano. The students

" A STUDENT IN BY A. S. COVEY

THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS "