Studio: international art (53.1911)

Studio- Talk

"AT BEZIGHEIM ON THE NECKAR" (ETCHING) BY HANS VOLKERT

countenance and hands of the venerable Regent that of Franz Hoch or an autumn scene from the

and avoided all details which might distract the Wetterstein Mountains by Rudi Krapf, or Joseph

attention of the observer from these vital charac- Schmutzberger's Chamois in the Snow, a scene from

teristics. With masterful draughtsmanship there is the high mountains, or again Eugen Ludwig Hoess's

here joined a pictorial treatment at once sincere Sunny Winter Day, with its luminous coloration,

and sound, and such as only those who even it The majority of the genre pictures do not rise above

gifted above the average can attain to after long the level of mediocrity, but Hans Best's robust

discipline. pictures depicting scenes in the life of the people

;- of Upper Bavaria stand out among the better

It is impossible to name here all the works in achievements of this class. In his large canvas

this exhibition which stand out from the average Susannah and the Two Elders, a work of special

either on account of some special characteristic or interest in regard to its colour-scheme, Hans

because of their pictorial qualities, such as Gino Lietzmann has managed to find a new side to this

Parin's interesting portrait of a lady, painted with somewhat hackneyed theme,
much virtuosity in a scheme of blues, or Theodor

Bohnenberger's admirably modelled nude study of The collective exhibit of the " Scholle " group

a fair and slender young woman, in which the flesh contains, in addition to some experiments of

painting is of remarkable freshness and vitality, doubtful value, works which are of the most

Here, as throughout the entire exhibition, landscape progressive order and evince a mature technical

with or without staffage predominates, and in all accomplishment. Fritz Erler's characteristic por-

cases we see an endeavour to render nature in its traits of men, painted in pure luminous colours

simple grandeur and with special regard to its which stand out vividly from background made up

beauty of colour, whether it be a spring scene like of loose flakey patches of pigment, bring us to that
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