DOI Heft:
Nr. 143 (February 1905)
DOI Artikel:Van der Veer, Lenore: Art student life in Munich
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20711#0045
Munich Students
part of an art training, and
who live as quietly as if
they were in their own
homes.
L. Van der Veer.
Everyone will welcome
the announcement that the
International Society's Ex-
hibition is to be followed in
the New Gallery by a Me-
morial Exhibition of the
work of Whistler. Large
numbers of private collec-
, tors are lending works, and
landscape by m. achener . . ° , , ,
the society will be glad to
hear from any owners of
They are very serious in their work, and if many have pictures, drawings, and etchings who would be
grown rather Bohemian in their ways and careless as willing to lend those in their possession,
to dress, it is to be attri-
buted to the force of en-
vironment. It is rather
difficult for the outsider
to quite understand why
the study of art should
have this effect on a large
percentage of students, but
nevertheless it is true.
Most of the women students
are Germans, some few
Hungarian and Swiss, but
rarely one finds either an
English or American girl
in the classes. Those who
can afford it live in pensions,
others rent little rooms for
a few marks a week, and
get their own breakfasts,
and go to restaurants and
cafes for their dinner and
supper. This frequenting
of cafes for meals is the
shortest road towards
Bohemianism, and it is no
uncommon thing to see
parties of girl students
sitting at the cafes late,
drinking an endless
number of beers and smok-
ing endless cigarettes. On
the other hand, there are
plenty of women art
students who do not re-
gard this sort of thing as study from life by fraulein c.Rosnirpf
part of an art training, and
who live as quietly as if
they were in their own
homes.
L. Van der Veer.
Everyone will welcome
the announcement that the
International Society's Ex-
hibition is to be followed in
the New Gallery by a Me-
morial Exhibition of the
work of Whistler. Large
numbers of private collec-
, tors are lending works, and
landscape by m. achener . . ° , , ,
the society will be glad to
hear from any owners of
They are very serious in their work, and if many have pictures, drawings, and etchings who would be
grown rather Bohemian in their ways and careless as willing to lend those in their possession,
to dress, it is to be attri-
buted to the force of en-
vironment. It is rather
difficult for the outsider
to quite understand why
the study of art should
have this effect on a large
percentage of students, but
nevertheless it is true.
Most of the women students
are Germans, some few
Hungarian and Swiss, but
rarely one finds either an
English or American girl
in the classes. Those who
can afford it live in pensions,
others rent little rooms for
a few marks a week, and
get their own breakfasts,
and go to restaurants and
cafes for their dinner and
supper. This frequenting
of cafes for meals is the
shortest road towards
Bohemianism, and it is no
uncommon thing to see
parties of girl students
sitting at the cafes late,
drinking an endless
number of beers and smok-
ing endless cigarettes. On
the other hand, there are
plenty of women art
students who do not re-
gard this sort of thing as study from life by fraulein c.Rosnirpf