DOI Heft:
No. 201 (December, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0262
Studio-Talk
grounds of Italian skies
and groves induce the
mood of the elegy, a form
of music particularly
soothing in these days of
unrest. Some well-known
Dusseldorf painters
formed the " Ktinstler-
Vereinigung, 1899," and
these sympathetic realists
sent some fine works.
Nature is their source of
inspiration, and they owe
much to Dutch models
and to modern improve-
ments. We found honesty
and delicacy in landscapes
ofEugen Kampf, Hunten,
Lasch, and Sohn-Rethel,
as well as in the subject
,, pictures of Claus Meyer,
"on the rhine by wilhelm schreuer f_ . . . J
Konlschem, Heimig, and
Josse Gossens. The
craftsmanship. In the Aman-Jean collection, a Munich secessionist, Fritz Osswald, paints land-
firmly established reputation was jeopardised by scape, especially winter scenes and flowers, with
the weakness of colour and line which it demon- love and accuracy. His summary methods do not
strated. We seemed to inhale enervating perfumes conflict with delicate motifs. The groups of the
from groups and single figures of sickly women sculptor Ernst Miiller-Braunschweig, impressed
without a drop of healthy blood in their drooping one by their charm of line and tenderness of feel-
limbs. An earlier period of French Art had a ing, and his portraiture by vividness, and Leo
vigorous representative in
J. F. Millet, whose series
of clear and expressive
drawings of rural scenes,
landscapes and portraits
spoke of the realist's un-
flinching veracity and of
the idealist's love for the
grandeur of the antique
canon. _
Several of the contribu-
tions by modern German
artists proved a source of
real enjoyment. Franz
Lippisch, the Berlin
painter, has matured his
talent by careful study,
and some of his paintings
evoke the name of Bocklin.
Deep colour harmonies,
beautiful women in class-
ical garments and with
emotional souls, back- "a trio" by wilhelm schreuer
240
grounds of Italian skies
and groves induce the
mood of the elegy, a form
of music particularly
soothing in these days of
unrest. Some well-known
Dusseldorf painters
formed the " Ktinstler-
Vereinigung, 1899," and
these sympathetic realists
sent some fine works.
Nature is their source of
inspiration, and they owe
much to Dutch models
and to modern improve-
ments. We found honesty
and delicacy in landscapes
ofEugen Kampf, Hunten,
Lasch, and Sohn-Rethel,
as well as in the subject
,, pictures of Claus Meyer,
"on the rhine by wilhelm schreuer f_ . . . J
Konlschem, Heimig, and
Josse Gossens. The
craftsmanship. In the Aman-Jean collection, a Munich secessionist, Fritz Osswald, paints land-
firmly established reputation was jeopardised by scape, especially winter scenes and flowers, with
the weakness of colour and line which it demon- love and accuracy. His summary methods do not
strated. We seemed to inhale enervating perfumes conflict with delicate motifs. The groups of the
from groups and single figures of sickly women sculptor Ernst Miiller-Braunschweig, impressed
without a drop of healthy blood in their drooping one by their charm of line and tenderness of feel-
limbs. An earlier period of French Art had a ing, and his portraiture by vividness, and Leo
vigorous representative in
J. F. Millet, whose series
of clear and expressive
drawings of rural scenes,
landscapes and portraits
spoke of the realist's un-
flinching veracity and of
the idealist's love for the
grandeur of the antique
canon. _
Several of the contribu-
tions by modern German
artists proved a source of
real enjoyment. Franz
Lippisch, the Berlin
painter, has matured his
talent by careful study,
and some of his paintings
evoke the name of Bocklin.
Deep colour harmonies,
beautiful women in class-
ical garments and with
emotional souls, back- "a trio" by wilhelm schreuer
240