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transcribes on canvas his inmost vision; hence
the special characteristics of his work, appreciated
equallyat the Paris Salons and in the Royal Academy.
The artist is entirely himself in the presence of
untamed nature, face to face with the Matterhorn,
and when he continues upon his violin the thoughts
and emotions that he has just been depicting on
the canvas. He sings in praise of the mountains
for he knows that they contain a rare beauty for
all who can comprehend it. F. G.

‘THE BLUE BOY

BY LUNA DREXLEROWNA

( See p. bi)

a musician, a thinker and a great sportsman, man
of the world and recluse. He loves and under-
stands nature; she has taught him to read the
weather in the skies, and in the hand or the hand-
writing the character of a man. For him colours have
sonority, sounds have their colour. Flowers speak
to his soul with a language of
their own, and animals are his
companions in the solitude of
the mountains to which the
artist loves to retire. When
he paints a picture he allies
to the physical elements a
whole world of thought. A
storm is to him “Fury,” a
sombre pool signifies “ Evil
thought,” a mountain-peak
typifies “ Light.” Other pic-
tures show the influence of
Wagner or Chopin far more
than that of Constable or
Claude Lorrain, his favourite
masters, while yet others open
up abstruse metaphysical con-
ceptions. Nevertheless Gos
is very much a painter. He
studies his subject profoundly
and then unhesitatingly “procession in evolene’
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VIENNA.—The Autumn Exhibition at the
Kiinstlerhaus was on the whole a highly
interesting display, the chief feature
being a number of “ one-man ” shows.
Two of these were devoted to masters of the old
school—the late Siegmund L’Allemand, an artist of
great merit whose simple honest method of treat-
ment has its own peculiar charm, this being
especially the case in regard to his drawings of
animals; and Franz Alt, whose water-colour draw-
ings are of a high artistic quality. As a draughtsman
Franz Alt, who is now a veteran of ninety or more
(his more famous brother, Rudolf von Alt, was over
ninety when he died), is of rare excellence, while
his colouring is subtle, fresh, and spontaneous.
Other “one-man” shows were those of Rudolf
Bernt, Otto Herschel, Carlos Grethe, and Adolf
Zoff. The first-named, who is one of the older
members of the Genossenschaft, has lately returned
from Japan, where he stayed about two years. His
work, chiefly in water-colour, is of peculiar interest,

(See t. 61)

BY H. B. WIELAND