Studio: international art (60.1914)

Studio-Talk

comprehensive exhibition in November. To stand
before this painter’s works almost seemed like
intruding into the privacy of a world-evading spirit.
The sad aspects of life have taken possession of his
soul and these, mingled with the fantastic visions of
a passionate dreamer, have created a strange and
quite personal art. Brandenburg has laboured
unceasingly to perfect his technique, and his work
testifies to his ability as a draughtsman as well as a
colourist. The minutest forms are rendered with
precision, and prismatic values help to interpret
suggestive force and mystic moods. The poet
peoples nature with pantheistic forms, for which his
hand is sometimes too heavy and his taste too earth-
bound. His naturalism, however, serves him well
when his aim is simple landscape rendition. J. J.

Universal regret is felt at the death of Carlos
Grethe, who succumbed to an attack of appendicitis
at Nieuwport in Belgium on October 24. The
deceased artist, who had not yet reached his fiftieth
year, was a marine painter of exceptional merit, and
his death, following so soon on that of Prof. Hans
von Bartels, who also excelled in kindred subjects,
is a serious loss to German art, for though he was
born in Uruguay, by far the greater part of his life
from infancy onwards was passed in Germany. At the
age of sixteen he entered the Karlsruhe Academy,
which he rejoined subsequently after asn interval in
Paris, and later he became a teacher there, after-
wards becoming a professor at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Stuttgart. Numerous works of his have
been acquired by public collections, and he was