Studio: international art (65.1915)

Studio-Talk

Venice.—

ThoughTrieste,
which for long
years has been
under the domination of
the House of Hapsburg,
whose right to what is
essentially an Italian city
now awaits the decision of
arms, cannot vie as an art
centre with the larger cities
of Italy, it can nevertheless
boast of a very energetic “Trieste”

BY GLAUCO CAMBON

often than not engender a fine sense of balance and
arrangement, and it is Lachman’s knowledge of
these qualities in a painting that makes his own
work extremely interesting. Coming to France
some three years ago he struck out immediately
for himself, with the little villages of Brittany,
Spain, and Switzerland for his masters and school-
rooms. His A Street in Brittany and Fishing
Smack, Brittany, are intimate examples of his work
at that time. I feel, however, that it is as a painter
of snow that this artist excels. His studies and
paintings of snow-clad, low-lying villages and
mountains are all remarkable for their colour, keen
observation and design. The End of the Road and
The Madeleine, Pa?is— Winter, two of his smaller
canvases, show characteristically this phase of his
art, which elicited by no means unfavourable
criticism at the Exposition Internationale de
Peintres de Neige, and is seen to advantage from
time to time in the Salon of the Societe Nationale
des Beaux-Arts and the Salon d’Automne. But it
is not alone in his work as a painter that Lachman
expresses his talents; the
making of model houses,
villages, and toys occupies
no small part of his time
during the long winter
evenings, and his embroi-
dered cushions, with de-
signs of quaint animals
and landscapes, are not
amongst the least fascinat-
ing examples of his versa-
tility which one may enjoy
in his studio, and which
will be included in the
first important exhibition
of his collected work to be
held in America during the
autumn. E. A. T.

group of young artists eager to redeem their native
city from the reproach of being wholly absorbed in
commerce and trade. Five years ago this group
exhibited in a body at the ninth International Art
Exhibition of the City of Venice, and created a
favourable impression, the group consisting of Guido
Marussig, examples of whose work have already
appeared in this magazine and who was responsible
for the decoration and arrangement of the room
assigned to the group, Ugo Flumiani, Guido Grimani,
Pietro Lucano, Arturo Rietti, Carlo Wostry, the
sculptor Giovanni Mayer, and Glauco Cambon,
whose picture of Trieste by night is here repro-
duced. Cambon though still quite a young man
had already exhibited at Venice, and his work has
made its appearance at other important art centres,
such as Milan, Turin, Vienna, Munich, Berlin,
as well as at the Permanente in Trieste. He
is very versatile ■ and besides landscapes and
numerous successful portraits of men and women,
characterised by shrewd observation and energetic
technique, he has executed a series of mural

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