Studio: international art (35.1905)

Vienna Secession Exhibition

CASKET IN WROUGHT AND CHASED BY ALEXANDER FISHER
SILVER, WITH MOONSTONES IN BORDER

(See London Studio- Talk)

characteristics, though there can be no mistake as
to their nationality ; Stanislaus Wyspianski for his
studies of children, Leon Wyczolkowski’s Meerauge

(Straits) and Schwartzer See (Black Sea),
massive descriptions of nature, deep in
thought and treatment and powerful in
effect; Ludwig Misky’s Der Schnee, with
huge masses of snow between which a
path runs, trees laden with snow, only one
brown-yellow furze-bush to relieve the
intensity of the cold greys and chilling
atmosphere; Joseph von Mehhoffer’s
Europa iubilans, an interior full
of decorative ornamentation and orna-
ments, the maid sitting jubilant on
the sofa. T. Axentowicz’s Ruthenian
Girl., with her fine features and
characteristic garb, no detail being
forgotten, from the black and coloured
handkerchief tied round her head,
with white headcloth beneath, to
the embroidery of her jacket; Jan
Stanislawski’s rainbows and clouds and
Stephan Filipkiewicz’s mountain stream
—each has its own peculiar comprehen-
sion of idea and method of treatment.

I have purposely left Die Rast
(see page 54), by W. Franz Jager,
to the last. It is decorative in effect, and
there is much that is good and original in
the picture. This picture has been bought by the

presentation casket in silver and chiselled steel (See London Studio-Talk)
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BY ALEXANDER FISHER