Studio: international art (40.1907)

Studio-Talk

RUSSIAN ‘ WINDHUNDE :

BY W. V. KRAUSZ

at a Hagenbund exhibition, at once showed that
he was a true artist, and was acquired by the Go-
vernment for the Modern
Gallery.

seems to be peculiar to
himself. The darker con-
tours are filled in with
coloured chalks and the
rest is done in water-colour.
There were very few oil-
paintings at this exhibition,
and in these the colour was
laid on so lightly as to give
the pictures more the ap-
pearance of water-colours.
His landscapes are admir-
able in their treatment of
light and shade. It is
nature’s joyous aspects
which find expression in
his pictures, in close asso-
ciation with those intimate
revelations of a peaceful
home - life in which he
gives us glimpses of his
own domestic entourage at Sundborn, the little
Swedish village where the artist passes most of his

Though he lays no claim
to being an animal painter
one essay in this direction
is worthy of note, namely,
that in which he depicts a
couple of Russian “ Wind-
hunde.” This, along with
much excellent work in
portraiture, promises well
for Ivrausz’s future. He is
still a good way off thirty,
but his talent has already
met with recognition not
only in his native town but
in Dresden, Berlin, and
other German cities where
he has exhibited.

Carl Larsson, who has
been having a collective
exhibition of his works at
Miethke’s Gallery, is no
stranger to the Viennese,
with whom his truly per-
sonal talent has always met
with appreciation. In most
of his pictures Larsson
adopts a technique which

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“ UNDER THE TABLE”

BY CARL LARSSON