Studio- Talk
and Douglas Hamilton, Peter Romney, George arrangement, the painter always strives for the
Chinnery, Constable, John Raphael Smith, and a genre character in his pictures, and an essence of
few others. The Exhibition will remain open till poetry permeates his art. He loves the open air for
June 15. his models and beautiful flowers near his children,
but the harmonies of dusk or dawn are preferred to
BERLIN.—The level of the last Schulte sparkling sunlight. He never detracts from lifelike
exhibition was particularly high. Hans portraiture, but by a realistic idealism is able to
von Petersen first attracted attention by co-ordinate truth and beauty.—August Neven du
his marine landscapes. This son of the Mont was once more shown in all the diversity of
Sleswig waterside, now a resident of Munich, has a his art and we enjoyed the fine qualities of his brush
particular understanding for the beauties of the in portraits, interiors, sporting and variety scenes and
water. Rivers with greenish frost-coagulations and genres with modern and historical costumes. It is
snow-sheets over their long stretched valley-solitude, difficult to discover the painter's true self in all his
violet wavelets of the southern sea and vast skies eclecticism, but distinction of taste and an eye for
with massed storm-clouds or falling curtains of the really pictorial are certainly his abiding qualities,
mist, are now his preferred themes. Thaulow's -
warm colour-symphonies are remembered and Heinrich Hellhoff, our rising Berlin portrait-
also the melancholy tone-
choruses of certain Dachau
masters. In the selection
of subject, in a more syn-
thetic execution, and in the
preference for autumnal and
hibernal motifs we become
aware of pathetic cravings.
Another renowned
Munich artist, Georg
Schuster-Woldan, the elder
brother of Raffael Schuster-
Woldan, has been showing
in the Schulte galleries a
comprehensive and captivat-
ing collection of portraits.
His reputation was founded
on fairy-tale pictures, but
successes as portraitist seem
to have now quite specialised
his art. The original line
is continued in so far as
the child has remained his
favourite subject. Whilst
the woman may assume
certain aristocratic airs of
chaste aloofness under his
brush, the child displays all
its individualism. He paints
the roguish mite as perfectly
as the dignified baby; we
are always able to recognise
the father to the man in the
youthful model. Beyond
precision of drawing, melo-
dious colour, and original portrait of a little girl by georg schuster-woldan
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and Douglas Hamilton, Peter Romney, George arrangement, the painter always strives for the
Chinnery, Constable, John Raphael Smith, and a genre character in his pictures, and an essence of
few others. The Exhibition will remain open till poetry permeates his art. He loves the open air for
June 15. his models and beautiful flowers near his children,
but the harmonies of dusk or dawn are preferred to
BERLIN.—The level of the last Schulte sparkling sunlight. He never detracts from lifelike
exhibition was particularly high. Hans portraiture, but by a realistic idealism is able to
von Petersen first attracted attention by co-ordinate truth and beauty.—August Neven du
his marine landscapes. This son of the Mont was once more shown in all the diversity of
Sleswig waterside, now a resident of Munich, has a his art and we enjoyed the fine qualities of his brush
particular understanding for the beauties of the in portraits, interiors, sporting and variety scenes and
water. Rivers with greenish frost-coagulations and genres with modern and historical costumes. It is
snow-sheets over their long stretched valley-solitude, difficult to discover the painter's true self in all his
violet wavelets of the southern sea and vast skies eclecticism, but distinction of taste and an eye for
with massed storm-clouds or falling curtains of the really pictorial are certainly his abiding qualities,
mist, are now his preferred themes. Thaulow's -
warm colour-symphonies are remembered and Heinrich Hellhoff, our rising Berlin portrait-
also the melancholy tone-
choruses of certain Dachau
masters. In the selection
of subject, in a more syn-
thetic execution, and in the
preference for autumnal and
hibernal motifs we become
aware of pathetic cravings.
Another renowned
Munich artist, Georg
Schuster-Woldan, the elder
brother of Raffael Schuster-
Woldan, has been showing
in the Schulte galleries a
comprehensive and captivat-
ing collection of portraits.
His reputation was founded
on fairy-tale pictures, but
successes as portraitist seem
to have now quite specialised
his art. The original line
is continued in so far as
the child has remained his
favourite subject. Whilst
the woman may assume
certain aristocratic airs of
chaste aloofness under his
brush, the child displays all
its individualism. He paints
the roguish mite as perfectly
as the dignified baby; we
are always able to recognise
the father to the man in the
youthful model. Beyond
precision of drawing, melo-
dious colour, and original portrait of a little girl by georg schuster-woldan
326