Studio: international art (62.1914)

Reviews and Notices

Mother and Child is an
expressive rendering of
maternal devotion ; Ella
Rothe, who in her coloured
drawing Alt- Wiener Hof-—
one of three exhibited by
her — has chosen as her
theme one of those old-
world corners of Vienna
which are rapidly vanish-
ing; Olga Brand-Krieg-
hammer, who has a pen-
chant for bright-hued
flowers ; Angela Adler,
Hedwig Neumann-Pishing,
Johanna Freund, Lila
Gruner, Grete Wieden-Veit
and other painters, while
among the exhibitors of
etchings, drawings, and
lithographs reference
should be made to Marie
Ressel, Elizabeth Laske,
Marianne Frimberger,
Mariska Augustin, Berta
Czegka, Marianne Hitsch-
"seaport" tempera painting by minka fodhajska mann-Steinberger, and

(VtrttnigungbildenderKUnttlerinnen Oestcrni<hs) Magda von Kerch.

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enamelling, and who has not only served her

apprenticeship in these crafts but has worked as REVIEWS AND NOTICES,

a journeywoman in France, Germany, Sweden, The Art of the Great Masters. Frederick Lees.
Holland, and other countries and Ella Briggs-Baum- (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co. Ltd.)
feld, who practises as an architect; she showed a £2 \2s. 6d.—This essay is written on the art of the
boudoir which though somewhat glaring in its great masters as exemplified by drawings in the
colour-scheme was yet well designed, well arranged, collection of Emile YVauters. The book contains
and pleasing in its details. a very large number of reproductions made with

- exceptional delicacy, and it is the greatest names

The pictures and drawings formed a varied dis- the world has known that are represented. Whilst
play, and one was glad for oner to set' but few everything is written round the drawings, the history
portraits, the most notable of these being Rosa of Italian and Flemish art is developed in the text
Frankfurt's study of a man's head remarkable for its in such an interesting manner that the book
characterisation, Baroness Helene Krausz's por- becomes of the utmost value to a reader entering
trait of an old man, excellent alike in handling and upon the study of the old masters. In his intro-
interpretation, and Luise Fraenkel-Halm, who duction the author has something to say which
showed a portrait of a little girl with a background reflects the considered opinion of many critics to-
of gay flowers. Minka Podhajska, whose beautiful day in regard to the future of art. He points out
toys will be remembered by many readers of The that we are now face to face with a situation similar
Studio, is also a painter of fine feeling, as witness to that which confronted Ingres when, revolting
her Seaport, here reproduced. Frau Harlfinger- against the art to which his fellow artists were
Zakucka, also of note as a creator of toys, likewise resigned, he discovered nature—which remains
showed some very interesting landscapes handled in the inexhaustible scource of beauty—through the
an individual manner. Other artists whose work masters of the Renaissance, Masaccio and Raphael.
calls for mention are E. Leuze-Hirschfeld, whose He felt the necessity, says the author, using Ingres'

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