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pictorial arrangement. In the exhibition of the "1 "V ERLIN.—The presidential dignity of the
Hamburg Group, a pleasing work, executed with I 3 Secession has passed from Professor Max
marked assurance, is Fr. Missfeldt's Woman ^ Liebermann to the painter Lovis Corinth,
with a Cow, in which the figures are vigorously J—J and Kruse, Gaul, Slevogt, Klimsch, and
delineated in sharply defined outline in an Paul Cassirer, as members of the exhibition com-
atmosphere of wonderful clearness. Carl Schildt's mittee, have given place to Kraus, Barlach, Kar-
summer landscape in Holstein also deserves a dorff, Rosier, and Breyer, but the character of the
word of admiration, and in H. Missfeldt, whose summer exhibition remained much the same as
tenderly modelled marble bust, After the Bath, heretofore. Some of the contributions, like those
ranks among the best pieces of sculpture in the of Th. Th. Heine, Block, Oberlander, Thoma, and
exhibition, one is introduced to an artist who, if Volkmann, laid particular stress on a combination
not of any marked individuality, shows, at any rate, of careful draughtsmanship and pleasant colouring,
great and sure command of form. and although some instances of delicate facture
- also found favour, the general tendency seemed
Of the very comprehensive collection of etchings, to be in the direction of suggestive sketchiness, for
drawings, and other black-and-white work, space simplification in form, for novelty in tone accords
will only permit of a few of the most important and especially for strong colour-notes. This last
being mentioned here. Besides the contributions principle one found accentuated in a comprehen-
of such better-known men
as Hermann Hirzel and
Carl Theodor Meyer
(Basle), a specially inter-
esting series of works are
Hans Volkert's capital
etchings of the little
Suabian town of Besig-
heim. In addition to an
unusual sureness of mani-
pulation and unflagging
industry, these plates, in
which elaboration is carried
out down to the smallest
and finest detail, bear
testimony to a poetic
sentiment and an earnest
striving after perfection.
The tender and toneful
plates of Georg Jahn of
Dresden are executed with
a high degree of technical
skill and amazing virtu-
osity, and Otto Protzen's
more sober and serious
etchings reproduce the
essentially pictorial ele-
ments of a landscape
with surprising certitude.
Rudolf Sieck's gay and
vivacious flower-strewn
gouaches stand out as
veritable little master-
pieces from the multiplicity
of "Graphic" works in
this exhibition. L. D. portrait of h.r.h. the prince regent luitpold. by prof. Walter firle
324
pictorial arrangement. In the exhibition of the "1 "V ERLIN.—The presidential dignity of the
Hamburg Group, a pleasing work, executed with I 3 Secession has passed from Professor Max
marked assurance, is Fr. Missfeldt's Woman ^ Liebermann to the painter Lovis Corinth,
with a Cow, in which the figures are vigorously J—J and Kruse, Gaul, Slevogt, Klimsch, and
delineated in sharply defined outline in an Paul Cassirer, as members of the exhibition com-
atmosphere of wonderful clearness. Carl Schildt's mittee, have given place to Kraus, Barlach, Kar-
summer landscape in Holstein also deserves a dorff, Rosier, and Breyer, but the character of the
word of admiration, and in H. Missfeldt, whose summer exhibition remained much the same as
tenderly modelled marble bust, After the Bath, heretofore. Some of the contributions, like those
ranks among the best pieces of sculpture in the of Th. Th. Heine, Block, Oberlander, Thoma, and
exhibition, one is introduced to an artist who, if Volkmann, laid particular stress on a combination
not of any marked individuality, shows, at any rate, of careful draughtsmanship and pleasant colouring,
great and sure command of form. and although some instances of delicate facture
- also found favour, the general tendency seemed
Of the very comprehensive collection of etchings, to be in the direction of suggestive sketchiness, for
drawings, and other black-and-white work, space simplification in form, for novelty in tone accords
will only permit of a few of the most important and especially for strong colour-notes. This last
being mentioned here. Besides the contributions principle one found accentuated in a comprehen-
of such better-known men
as Hermann Hirzel and
Carl Theodor Meyer
(Basle), a specially inter-
esting series of works are
Hans Volkert's capital
etchings of the little
Suabian town of Besig-
heim. In addition to an
unusual sureness of mani-
pulation and unflagging
industry, these plates, in
which elaboration is carried
out down to the smallest
and finest detail, bear
testimony to a poetic
sentiment and an earnest
striving after perfection.
The tender and toneful
plates of Georg Jahn of
Dresden are executed with
a high degree of technical
skill and amazing virtu-
osity, and Otto Protzen's
more sober and serious
etchings reproduce the
essentially pictorial ele-
ments of a landscape
with surprising certitude.
Rudolf Sieck's gay and
vivacious flower-strewn
gouaches stand out as
veritable little master-
pieces from the multiplicity
of "Graphic" works in
this exhibition. L. D. portrait of h.r.h. the prince regent luitpold. by prof. Walter firle
324