Studio: international art (42.1908)

Studio-Talk

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sketch: " radeau de la meduse " (In the Ckiramy Collection) by gericault

delicate soft-paste porcelain of M. Naudet, pleasant in some instances again to his disagreeable female

in substance, and made more attractive by their model, whilst Peter Burnitz and Sperl attract us

fine translucent decorations. A. S. ever by their simplicity and warmheartedness.

Liebermann, Uhde and Thoma were well repre-

BERLIN.—Fritz Gurlitt opened his autumn sented, and a new-comer was Carl Hagemeister.
season with a really delightful exhibi- His quiet studies of wintry and autumnal nature
tion. Every friend of art felt thankful are written down with broad strokes, but made
for the reappearance of the works of delicious by the tenderest accents of brown, white
a master painter like Gencault, who is nowhere to and greyish blue. He is summary and yet con-
be studied in Germany. The glow and modelling scientious, rough and yet delicate,
of his colour, his dramatic pathos and psychological -

power, his trembling nerve and iron muscle stamp Great satisfaction prevails in Berlin arts and

him at the very first glance as the artist in whom his crafts circles at Professor Peter Behrens' removal

teacher Guerin discovered the talent for three or to the capital. After having organised the Diissel-

four painters. We see an unflinching realism at dorf School of Applied Arts, he is following a call

work which always imbues its subjects with the of the Allgemeine Electricitats-Gesellschaft to act

uncommon and the passionate, but whose utter- as artistic designer for electric pendants and fittings,

ances recall only the greatest names. There is no Modern art is placing itself more and more in the

healthier lesson for our modern brushmen than the service of modern science, and it is sure of enrich-

study of such work as that of Gericault. The art ment by means of this contact. The fact that

of the day was represented by a collection of Berlin is attracting, one after the other, authorities

pictures by Professor Albert Haueisen, from Karls- on arts and crafts, and that the Munich and

ruhe, who has learned much from Liebl's energetic Dresden workshops are opening branch businesses

brush strokes and juicy colouring, but is still here, proves the liveliness of our development and

somewhat feeling his way. Hugo von Habermann the growing importance of Berlin as a place for

applies the refinement of his colour-sense and pose commissions.

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