Studio: international art (36.1906)

Studio-Talk

were indeed a rest to the eyes, so fresh and delicate
were they, and so much more attractive than most
of the pictures decorating the cyma. What charms
one most in these little works is their great variety
of inspiration and of subject. The flamingo, and
other birds of the most chatoyant plumage, provide
them with marvellous colour schemes, in which
it seems to me they have obtained absolutely
unique effects. In certain landscapes, which have
kinship with those of Boecklin—the house with
the cypresses, for example—they approach an
entirely different style, and handle it with equal
brio. Langhammer’s skies are particularly fasci-
nating ; they have that softness and that depth
which hitherto had not been realised save in oils.
Thus there is nothing surprising in the great and
legitimate success which rewarded these two
excellent engravers at Liege. H. F.

but beauty of type, for which the Tyrolese are
famous.

B. Waltl sent several pictures of peasants,,
among them some of old men, which are very
representative. Beim Heurigen is a very striking
portrait of a native of Ivitzbiihl, near Innsbruck,
wearing an old Tyrolean costume. The expression
of the old weather-beaten face is very fine. In his
Stanserthaler the artist gives us another type, both
in face and costume, for each district has its
own particular dress. Here we have, instead
of the well-to-do peasant, one who has seen
hard times. The nap has worn away from
his clothing; all speaks of laborious and sorrow-
ful days; but the face has been chastened—
he is still happy in his lot. The Tyrolese have
few wants.

INNSBRUCK. — The
exhibition held here
last summer by the
Society of Tyrolese
Artists was a very interest-
ing one. For the first time
an opportunity was given
of seeing collectively what
they could produce and the
trend of their work. The
artistic nature is inborn in
the natives of the Tyrol,
both in the North and in
the South • yet their art,
differing, as it does, from
that of other nations, also
differs individually.

This exhibition was, writh
few exceptions, confined
entirely to pictures, and
these in their turn to land-
scapes and genre paintings.

Among the exhibitors Thom
Riss of Meran deserves a
foremost place. In his
picture from the Story of
the Dwarf King there is a
subtle glow which seems to
touch all with a warm bright
light, revealing the flesh
tones in all their freshness.

In his sketches of Tyrolean
peasants the artist shows
not only beauty of colour, “ the old workman ” by thom riss

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