Studio: international art (41.1907)

Studio-Talk

praise of those who care
deeply for the progress of
art and taste.

At Cologne this system
has been well carried out
in connection with the art
exhibition now being held
there. There have been
private invitations only;
the most eminent artists
and craftsmen contribut-
ing a share to the ensemble.
A sober, subdued tone
seems to pervade the
rooms; each picture, piece
of sculpture, or other
object is placed in har-
monious relation to its
neighbour and the gene-
ral environment, though
it must be said that a

"to schubert" by Walter ophey little more comfort in

the way of chairs and
Darmstadt, Diisseldorf, Mannheim, Heidelberg, lounges would be an advantage.

and other places, including smaller towns with -

Universities, preserve and maintain their own pe- The department of applied arts and " Raum-
culiar sphere of spiritual life, where occasionally klinst" is the chief feature resulting from the new
even the strain of pure artistic feeling may ring arrangement. Here the system adopted is that of
out fresh and true.

By selecting from the
best efforts of a select few
what will make the best
harmony within a limited
space, we may gradually
solve the difficult problem
of a really modern art ex-
hibition — an exhibition
raised to a high level in
quality, and necessarily
(most happily, let us say)
limited in quantity. This
principle, put into practice
with unflinching severity,
means a wholesome re-
form, if not a revolution
in the system of art and
applied art displays. The
result, if not immediately
satisfactory to all con-
cerned, must in course of
time find its due reward

in the recognition and " evening landscape " by a. holzel

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