Studio: international art (45.1909)

Studio- Talk

Autumn, where Nature in
her waning aspect is sym-
bolised by a woman in
mourning, standing at the
foot of a stone stairway.
Alois Kirnig, whose Alpine
landscape Der hohe Göll
was his chief exhibit, is
leader of a noted school
of painting.

“AN AUTUMN LANDSCAPE” (PASTEL)

were represented at the Jubilee Exhibition we
noted among the portraitists Franz OndruSek ;
Alexander Jakesch, whose portrait of his mother
deserves mention ; Rudolf Vacha, a favourite of
the Bohemian nobility, and as a painter skilful and
refined in his treatment of colour ; Franz Thiele,
director of the Academy of
Painting, who contributed
a very successful double
portrait. Two lady artists
with exceptional gifts in
portraiture are Otty Schnei-
der, whose clever pastel
portrait of an old man
made a good impression,
and Eugenie Hauptmann
Sommers, whose resolute
technique was to be seen
in a vivacious study of a
girl. Vaclav Jansa’s pic-
tures give us glimpses of
the Bohemian capital, but
in his study of a garden
in autumn, as in others, his
interpretation of atmo-
sphere savours rather too
much of artificiality. Josef
Schusser,on the other hand,
is more convincing in his

Numerous as were the
works shown in the Jubilee
Exhibition, it did not of
course include all the native
artists. The Mane's Society,
for instance, did not exhibit
there but in their own
quarters, nor were the latest
Secessionists present; and
the Klimt group was repre-
sented by two or three
adherents only. Orlik, as
always, was interesting; and
there were two striking
works on a rather large scale by a young painter,
named Angelo Zeyer—An Old Woman of Bruges
and Portrait of a Negro, in which the artist has
not hesitated to faithfully render the unlovely.
Teschner’s Glimpse of Prague and Stretti’s Noc-
turno have been purchased by the Kunstverein as

BY VÄCLAV JANSA

LANDSCAPE NEAR BÖSIG” (OIL)

( The property of Herr Rysavy, Prague)

BY ALOIS BUBÄ]

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