Studio: international art (38.1906)

Studio-Talk

PORTRAIT OF GRAF BY W. WULFF

KALCKREUTH'S DAUGHTER

figures, partly in rapid motion, Max Beckmann
(Berlin) appears still somewhat unsteady, and his
anatomy at times faulty;
yet a spirit of antique, of
hellenic joy seems to per-
vade the whole and argues
well for the artist’s future,
provided he can combine
with the flight of his fancy
the additional quality of
sound draughtsmanship.

Bischoff- Culm sent a
portrait study and a picture
of two Netztragerinnen, a
sober piece of brushwork ;

Konrad von Kardorff a
Garten - Restaurant, and
Wassily Kaudinsky some
vividly-coloured drawings
altogether on a flat, decora-
tive principle—light dabs
of paint on a black back-
ground, showing some of
his best qualities. His sub-
jects are holiday- makers
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in laughing array, children playing, or an old-
fashioned Russian knight in gaudy armour on a
white steed.

Theo von Brockhusen gives some good land-
scape effects, and Vincenz Cissarz two seascapes
from the lonely downs of Sylt. Luis Corinth
figures scarcely to his advantage in a portrait of an
octogenarian and a large dog (Tigerdogge), very
sound in colour, but sketchily drawn; Ludwig Dill,
one of the old guard, brings two specimens of
his “one” picture from the swamps of Dachau;
Feddersen of Kleiseer-Koog a bright seascape of
breakers on a weather-beaten beach; Max Thedy,
a portrait of his son (p. 358); Eugen Feiks,
some studies of turf life; Carlos Grethe, a Ham-
burg harbour view, and a fine-toned open sea with
fishing craft; Rudolf Hellwag, a bright, breezy
view of Old Chelsea.

Amandus Faure gives promises of much talent,
both as colourist and as humourist; his circus inte-
riors, intimate snap-shots of Bohemian life, are teem-
ing with dark-toned colour and vivacity. One of the
strongest pictures of the exposition is the Ausfah-
render Zug (see p. 357), by Hermann Pleuer
(Stuttgart), a work excellent in colour, light and
strength of execution. Frau Julie Wolfthorn
contributes a pastel portrait of Frau Dehmel,
and a study in greens and violets, both intimate