Studio: international art (55.1912)

Studio- Talk

now is. The Committee of the Great Berlin Art
Exhibition purchased a replica of this work for
their lottery.

Otto Richter has earned for himself special
renown as a sculptor of animal forms. In his
atelier are to be found animals of all kinds in
plaster and bronze—bulls, tigers, eagles, horses,
&c. He has more than once been commissioned
to model famous “ sires,” such as the Belgian
stallion “ Immarius Grimm ” of the Bauermeister
stud at Lobnitz near Bitterfeld, the heaviest horse
in the province of Saxony, and the Shire stallion
“Teesdale Victor,” a recent acquisition of the
Romanowski stud at Mehlsuck in East Prussia. He
has also carried out some
important commissions
for ecclesiastical work.

As to the influences
which reveal them-
selves in Richter’s
art. it may be said
that he has gone—and
quite consciously—
to the masters of the
Italian and German
renaissance for inspira-
tion ; but his individu-
ality has not suffered
thereby. Richter has
travelled much abroad
in pursuit of his studies
—in England, Scotland,
Holland, France,
Austria, and Russia, as
well as Spain, Italy, and
North Africa. One may
iustifiably regard him
as an exemplar of the
best in German art.
His feeling for monu-
mentality, his sense of
beauty, and his indi-
viduality of style are
discernible in all his
works, and he belongs
to the few who know
how to blend sculpture
with architecture, as a
consequence of which
his work is much
esteemed by leading
architects. W. E. W.

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COPENHAGEN.—M. and Mme. Aage
Roose are an interesting young artist
couple of a somewhat international
stamp, M. Roose being a Dane, his
wife a Pole. They have both studied in Paris, and
the last two or three years principally sojourned
in Sweden, from whence hail the two accompanying
illustrations, which demonstrate how fully they
have both grasped the mood of distant Varniland’s
forest life and scenery. There is over Mme.
Roose’s etching much of that peculiar beauty, a
whiff from the vast and mighty forests, which have
inspired some of Sweden’s greatest writers to
fervent eulogies of their beloved Varniland. M.
Roose’s wood-engraving displays excellent draughts