DOI Artikel:
Levetus, A. S.: The twenty-third exhibition of the vieenna secession
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20712#0072
Vienna Secession Exhibition
was much that was refreshing and new in the
arrangement, and the walls were hung with wood-
cuts, monotypes and etchings by Leopold Stolba,
Rudolf Jettmar, Leopold Blauensteiner and others.
And now for the “rooms,” which this time were
arranged by Josef Plecnik, who is also a pupil of
Prof. Wagner. In the interior here reproduced,
the centre pictureshows Sommers Lust und Freude,
by Leo Putz, a Tyrolese, now living in Munich,
which is one of the most interesting pictures in the
exhibition. The whole arrangement is very
felicitous, as is also the distribution of light, and
one is in fancy drawn to a real scene. The plaster
shown on this interior is by Hugo Kiihnelt, who
exhibited for the first time. It is in Untersberg
marble. The figure shows that the young sculptor,
a pupil of Professor Hellmer, possesses right judg-
ment, power, and method, together with strength
and sympathy ot purpose, and that he is already a
man of great promise. Of the other sculpture ex-
hibited, the chief place is due to Professor Metzner’s
Kauernden Weib (Crouching Woman), cut in Savon-
niere stone. It is a powerful study, almost monu-
mental in effect, so full of energy and feeling that
every cut of the chisel must have been made with
decisive force. Ivor Mestrovic’s Timor Dei reminds
one of Rodin’s Hand of God. The mighty foot
seems to come out of space, falling on suffering
mankind. The allegory shows talent, even if it is
not convincing. Othmar Schimkowitz exhibited a
grave monument in the form of an upright prism,
from the centre of which the bust of a praying
youth emerges. To the right and left are vertical
wings, these simple lines being in great contrast to
the natural attitude of the youth. Richard Lusch
and Josef Miillner were also well represented, the
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BY W. FRANZ JAGER
was much that was refreshing and new in the
arrangement, and the walls were hung with wood-
cuts, monotypes and etchings by Leopold Stolba,
Rudolf Jettmar, Leopold Blauensteiner and others.
And now for the “rooms,” which this time were
arranged by Josef Plecnik, who is also a pupil of
Prof. Wagner. In the interior here reproduced,
the centre pictureshows Sommers Lust und Freude,
by Leo Putz, a Tyrolese, now living in Munich,
which is one of the most interesting pictures in the
exhibition. The whole arrangement is very
felicitous, as is also the distribution of light, and
one is in fancy drawn to a real scene. The plaster
shown on this interior is by Hugo Kiihnelt, who
exhibited for the first time. It is in Untersberg
marble. The figure shows that the young sculptor,
a pupil of Professor Hellmer, possesses right judg-
ment, power, and method, together with strength
and sympathy ot purpose, and that he is already a
man of great promise. Of the other sculpture ex-
hibited, the chief place is due to Professor Metzner’s
Kauernden Weib (Crouching Woman), cut in Savon-
niere stone. It is a powerful study, almost monu-
mental in effect, so full of energy and feeling that
every cut of the chisel must have been made with
decisive force. Ivor Mestrovic’s Timor Dei reminds
one of Rodin’s Hand of God. The mighty foot
seems to come out of space, falling on suffering
mankind. The allegory shows talent, even if it is
not convincing. Othmar Schimkowitz exhibited a
grave monument in the form of an upright prism,
from the centre of which the bust of a praying
youth emerges. To the right and left are vertical
wings, these simple lines being in great contrast to
the natural attitude of the youth. Richard Lusch
and Josef Miillner were also well represented, the
“ DIE RAST ”
54
BY W. FRANZ JAGER