Studio: international art (51.1911)

Studio-Talk

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line, and the bristling contour for satirical charac-
terisation. He is equally firm and graceful, whether
he undertakes floral subjects or the human figure.
His spacing is excellent, and there is an old-world
charm about his drawings which recalls some of
the master-designers around Holbein, as well as
the pencil favourites of the Biedermeier time. All
these forms impress one as thoroughly home-
grown ; they are unmistakably German art.

ments in the Hals and Rembrandt manner, Paris
impressionism, or a period of colour-fanaticism,
fulfilments were quite exceptional experiences;
we had mostly to deal with dilettantism. The
drawings were often of consummate energy, but
at times they look like tightly woven nets which
transform water, trees, air, meadows and rocks
into numberless pot-hooks. Many visitors came
to study these exhibits, but this time no buyers.

The Salon Fritz Gurlitt offered some real attrac-
tions in its November exhibition. Connoisseurs

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Another interesting exhibition at Fried-
mann and Weber’s was that arranged
under the name “ Art and Industry.”
Here we could study the growing
activity of artists in commercial direc-
tions. Posters, business-papers, all sorts
of packings for wares, showed that our
industrial leaders begin to seek the
assistance of reputed artists to gain
popularity. Such work helps also to
relieve pecuniary struggles among artists,
and the taste and originality of the
exhibits promised influential support in
the education of our general taste.

At the Salon Cassirer a Van Gogh
exhibition contained examples from all
the different phases of this strange and
pitiable painter. Everywhere we could
recognise high-strung endeavours in
mere technical attempts, and a taste
untrammelled by selective exigencies.
Whether we studied the first experi-
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