Studio: international art (59.1913)

Studio-Talk

block's, choosing the wood
himself, and his tools are
made to his own require-
ments. From his child-
hood a lover of animals,
he early began to study
their ways, and became a
constant visitor to the
Schonbrunn Zoological
Gardens. Later he kept
birds in his studio, where
he could be in closer con-
tact with them and learn
their habits.

At recent exhibitions of
applied art in Vienna
many fine specimens of
jewellery have been shown
and elicited admiration;
especially noteworthy is
the work of this character
produced by the Wiener

“ EARLY AUTUMN EVENING IN SANDGRUBE ” BY CARL THUMA Werksttitte. Prof. Hoff-

(Kiinstlerhaus, Briinn) mann’s work is well known

Secession, but not till last
autumn, when his varied
productions were assem-
bled for the first time,
could the wide range of his
art be properly appre-
ciated. The collection
contained some large land-
scape paintings remark-
able for their breadth and
depth of treatment, and
numerous etchings,
aquatints and woodcuts,
the subjects being chiefly
animals and landscapes.

Birds are his favourites,
and his treatment of them,
founded as it is on close
observation, at once im-
pressed critics and public
alike. The two aquatints
here reproduced will show
how sure the artist is in
his methods. As a wood-
engraver he has accom-
plished some fine work,
carried out by methods of
his own. He cuts his own “landscape” from a coloured wood-engraving by hans frank

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