Studio: international art (53.1911)

Studio- Talk

this year and striking person-
alities like Bruno Schmitz,
Wilhelm Kreis and Oskar
Kaufmann are to be studied in
important works. The different
German porcelain firms, fore-
most among them the Berlin
Royal Manufacture, exemplify
the successful endeavour to
attain individual freedom of
style. Interesting new tech-
nical processes by Professor
Schmuz-Baudiss are to be
studied here, and we are often
made aware of the collaboration
of prominent painters and
sculptors in this domain of ap-
plied art. J. J.

M

'dinner-time in the village BY otto H. engel

ELBOURNE. —
The last annual ex-
hibition of the
Victorian Artists'
Society was held at the new
premises of the Melbourne

racial robustness is augmented by endeavours to Athenseum in Collins Street, in the new gallery
copy or assimilate neo-impressionistic methods. recently renovated and improved for the purpose

- of picture display. The innovation was, in some

Few works of sculpture claim more than passing respects, a success, though in the matter of
attention. A higher level is now the rule, but no wall space it was found somewhat disappointing,
departure from precedent is noticeable. Nobility of owing largely, no doubt, to the presence of a
shape and elevation of feeling
distinguish Manzel's large
haut-relief Christ the Con-
soler. Tuallion has sent his
equestrian statue of Kaiser
Wilhelm II., composed for
the Rhine bridge at Cologne,
and the work is marked by
fiery pulse and rhythmical
composure. Walter Schott
delights us by the grace and
vivacity of his dancing girls
on a charming fountain, and
Dammann and Hosaus have
executed some striking sculp-
ture for graves.

In the black - and - white
section the chief interest
centres in the work of Zeising,
Erich Wolfsfeld, Heroux,
Schiestl, Gampert, and Oskar
Graf. Architecture is rich " boulevard Waterloo, Brussels" by Ambrose Patterson

253