Studio: international art (48.1910)

Studio-Talk

"the farmyard" by minka podhajska

Harlfinger-Zakucka are making further
explorations and incursions in toyland.
They are both craftswomen as well as
artists and make their own models.
The cultivation of good taste in the
young cannot be begun too early,
neither can the study of nature. And
these modern toys answer both pur-
poses, for they are really beautiful,
artistic in every sense of the word,
and, moreover, are true to nature.

series of drawings of old
farmsteads in the Egerland
District of Bohem ia. These
" Bauernhofe " are a special
feature of the country, the
long low houses, with the
octagonal dove-cotes, tell-
ing well in the surrounding
landscape. The drawing
now reproduced was exe-
cuted partly in coloured
chalks and partly in water
colours, a technique of
which she is particu-
larly fond. The Modern.

At an interesting exhibition of work
by some young Bohemian artists held
some time ago at Heller's Art Gallery,
the larger part was devoted to pictures
in various techniques by Fraulein Otty
Schneider, one of which is now repro-
duced in colours. Miss Schneider is
a native of Leitmeritz, a Bohemian
town, where she passed her early years.
As a child she was fond of drawing
and colouring her pictures. This love
of colouring is inherent in her, and
determined her to become an artist.
Herr Eisert, a teacher in her native
town, from whom she had lessons as a
child, instilled a deep feeling for art
in her, and afterwards she studied
under Friedrich Fehr, who later be-
came Professor at Karlsruhe, whither
she followed him. On completing her
studies in Karlsruhe, she spent some
time in Dresden, Paris, Brittany, and
Spain, everywhere devoting herself to
the study of those fine old streets and
buildings to be found in these places. painted wooden figures and paper kites

On her return to Prague, she began a by prof, viktor schufinsky

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