Studio: international art (45.1909)

Studio- Talk

Brandeis. .Thereisadaint:-
nessabout his method which
accords well with theBieder-
meierism of that time. The
gouaches of Josef Navrâti),
who belongs to the first half
of the 19th century, have
atmospheiic qualities which
suggest the influence of
Turner. Alois Bubâk’s land-
scapes are in feeling nearer
to the old school than the
modem. Jaroslav Cermak
was a painter of the genre
pictures once so much
admired. His pigments are
laid with too heavy a hand,
but his painting of flesh is
worth studying.

Turning to the artists of
the present generation who

von Führich, a painter of historic
pictures and a Nazarene, belongs
to the old school, and a simple,
child-like sentiment pervaded his
pictures, such as Mary Crossing the
Mountains and Jews Mourning.
Karl Würbs’ works are of inestimable
value for lovers of old Prague, and
not least so on account of their'
good technical qualities. His old
people and houses wear a care-worn,
melancholy appearance, for the re-
volution of ’48 and the horrors of
the war of ’66 left their impress on
man and his surroundings. Among
the men of mark Josef Mane?, son
and pupil of Anton Manes, the
head of the well-known family of
painters, stands in the forefront.
The painters of the Czech Secession
look to him as the starting-point of
their movement, and when one con-
templates the portraiture of
Svabinsky, one of the small band
of Bohemian artists whose reputation
reaches far beyond the confines of
their native country, it becomes
manifest that his art has been largely
influenced by the older master.
Another portrait painter of the same
generation as Mane? was Johann
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•‘autumn” (oil) (The property of Prof. Koula) josef schusser