Studio: international art (47.1909)

Studio-Talk

screen will linger long in the memory. Adolf
Levier, Alfred Offner, and Maximilian Lenz were
well represented, as also Friedrich Konig, who sent
three portraits, all of ladies, including one of Vera
Schapira, the well-known pianist, a work of refined
and delicate
execution.

Among the
numerous
1 an d scapes
were not a
few of much
interest.

Richard Harl-
finger’s lake
scenes showed
marked pro-
gress on his
previous
work. One of
his pictures
has been ac-
quired by the
Government.

Alois Haen-
isch gave
proof of his
poetic and
sensitive vis-
ion in some
bits of old
Vienna gar-
dens; and the
same quali-
ties were dis-
cernible in
Anton Nov-
ak’s pictures
of mountain
scenery.

Ferdinand
Schmu tzer,
who for the nonce has returned to painting, sent
three works, An Old Duich Village being perhaps
the best of them. Ernst Stohr’s dreamy land-
scapes and old-world scenes revealed a true poetic
nature. Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth exhibited
several works, among them the reproduced deco-
rative panel. Oswald Roux, Karl Muller, Leopold
Stolba, Max Kahrer, Max Liebenwein, R. Jettmar,
Maximilian Lenz, and A. Zdrazila all contributed
good examples of their work ; and mention should
also be made of F. Gelbenegger’s paintings of old
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Vienna. F. Kruis has been spending some time
in Holland, and the series of pictures he now
showed proved him to be a sympathetic interpreter
of Low Country themes. Of peculiar interest were
some paintings by F. Hohenberger, his subject

being the coal
wharves on
the N o r d-
bahn.

Karl Eder-
er’s strong
and vigorous
animal pic-
tures and the
collection of
works by the
Munich artist,
Leo P u t z,
who had a
room to him-
self, were wel-
come features.
Albin Egger-
Lienz, who
has seceded
from the
Kunstlerhaus
exhibited sev-
eral works,
some of the
most interest-
ing of them
being scenes
in the life of
the Tyrolese.
In the reli-
gious genre
the work of
F e r dinand
Andri always
commands
respect, and
that which he exhibited on this occasion—a series
of paintings with the martyrs as their subjects,
which are destined for a church in Vienna —
lacked none of the qualities which are essential
in a painter of such themes. A young English
artist, Percy Siljan, who has studied in Prague,
showed great promise in a still-life painting he
sent. Some Polish artists were also among the
guests this time, as they frequently are. Vlastimil
Hofmann is one of these, and his Madonna is
characteristic of what one sees to this day in the

DECORATIVE PAINTING BY KARL SCHMOLL VON EISENWERTH

(Vienna Secession)