DOI issue:
Nr. 212 (November 1910)
DOI issue:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20971#0184
Studio-Talk
a tenderer feeling for the graces of vegetation and
atmospheric delicacies. In the execution of such
motifs he could rival the Dutch masters of the
17th century or Barbizon brushes.
For several years past the young sculptor, Paul
Oesten, has attracted notice by graceful groups
whose peculiarity lay in the juxtaposition of Praxi-
telean virgins with panthers. He carried off the
great gold medal of the Grosse Berliner Kunstaus-
stellung in 1906 for his Dandid Fountain, which
showed his sympathetic talent grown to monu-
mentality, and a capability for the tragic as well
as the arcadian expression. This year he makes
a striking impression in the Berlin Exhibition with
his Young Man in a Sweater, an excellent study
of anatomy in modern sporting garb, and his
Chatiffeur is much admired in the Munich Glaspa-
last. In the brutal intensity of his automobile
driver, Oesten, a passionate sportsman himself, has
EMBROIDERED RETICULE. DESIGNED AND WORKED
BY FRANZISKA HOFMANNINGER
Berlin.—The
Salon Cassirer
has honoured
Johann Sperl
on his seventieth birthday
with a collective exhibi-
tion. This intimate colla-
borator of Wilhelm Leibl
lived with him in retire-
ment in the Bavarian
mountains. He has never
made much of his own
art and was contented to
see his friend’s fame
spread far and wide. The
figures of peasants which
he painted at first in the
Vautier style bear no
comparison to such
masterpieces of Leibl’s
realism, but Sperl is at
his best in landscape.
He is quite superior when
he renders the flower-
studded meadows, leafy
interlacings, mountainous
distance, the sweetness
of fleecy skies and the
interiors of peasant cot-
tages in his Alpine fore-
land. Nobody ever had
“DIANA AND THE PANTHERS
BY PAUL OESTEN
163
a tenderer feeling for the graces of vegetation and
atmospheric delicacies. In the execution of such
motifs he could rival the Dutch masters of the
17th century or Barbizon brushes.
For several years past the young sculptor, Paul
Oesten, has attracted notice by graceful groups
whose peculiarity lay in the juxtaposition of Praxi-
telean virgins with panthers. He carried off the
great gold medal of the Grosse Berliner Kunstaus-
stellung in 1906 for his Dandid Fountain, which
showed his sympathetic talent grown to monu-
mentality, and a capability for the tragic as well
as the arcadian expression. This year he makes
a striking impression in the Berlin Exhibition with
his Young Man in a Sweater, an excellent study
of anatomy in modern sporting garb, and his
Chatiffeur is much admired in the Munich Glaspa-
last. In the brutal intensity of his automobile
driver, Oesten, a passionate sportsman himself, has
EMBROIDERED RETICULE. DESIGNED AND WORKED
BY FRANZISKA HOFMANNINGER
Berlin.—The
Salon Cassirer
has honoured
Johann Sperl
on his seventieth birthday
with a collective exhibi-
tion. This intimate colla-
borator of Wilhelm Leibl
lived with him in retire-
ment in the Bavarian
mountains. He has never
made much of his own
art and was contented to
see his friend’s fame
spread far and wide. The
figures of peasants which
he painted at first in the
Vautier style bear no
comparison to such
masterpieces of Leibl’s
realism, but Sperl is at
his best in landscape.
He is quite superior when
he renders the flower-
studded meadows, leafy
interlacings, mountainous
distance, the sweetness
of fleecy skies and the
interiors of peasant cot-
tages in his Alpine fore-
land. Nobody ever had
“DIANA AND THE PANTHERS
BY PAUL OESTEN
163