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bronze statuette, which, in this way, came to be
seen in its proper milieu, and, thanks to the ever-

BRONZE PLAQUE

BY J. VIERTHALER

increasing facilities afforded by exhibitions, has suc-
ceeded in winning the favour of the collector again.

Here in Munich quite a number of young
artists have devoted themselves to “ Kleinplastik,”
one of the most successful of them being Johann
Vierthaler, whose bronzes have to-day acquired an
assured popularity and are to be found in all the
art-salons and exhibition galleries of the applied
art workshops, or “ Werkstätten.” They were also
selected for embellishing the interiors exhibited at
the Munich Exhibition this year, bis most import-

ant work, a figure of a dancing girl with a tambou-
rine, being one which served this purpose. The
great share of success which has fallen to Vier-
thaler is by no means the outcome of happy chance ;
it is the well-earned reward of labour, ever striving
to attain perfection. His favourite motif is the
unclothed human body—and especially the comely

PORCELAIN FIGURE BY HUGO F. KIRSCH

female form—and one is always impressed with the
extraordinary vitality of his figures, which in pose
and expression are at all times free from any trace
of artificiality. L. D.

VIENNA.—The making of porcelain is too
difficult and elusive to attract many artists,
for to obtain the best results every process
necessary to bring the work to perfection
must be thoroughly understood, and this demands
not only a good artist but a good craftsman. Hugo
F. Kirsch can lay claim to be both ; he not only
moulds but controls every manipulation from start
to finish. He studied at the Fachschule in Teplitz,
at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich, and in

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PORCELAIN FIGURE

BY HUGO F. KIRSCH