Studio: international art (84.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

BRONZE GARGOYLE FOR
A BATH. BY J. KASSIN

(Kiinstlerhaus, Vienna)

1909 his work called Hope, representing
a young man standing at the helm of a ship,

won general admiration. The Ghent
Museum acquired one of his portraits,
and the University commissioned a bust
of the famous Professor J. Boulvin. One
of his four works here reproduced, the
study of an old peasant, expresses forcibly
the sufferings which the years bring to the
peasant class. As a critic said, " This
work exhibits a strange and penetrating
psychology with great power " : a result
Leon Sarteel modestly attributes to the
living model. His Orpheus has a calm
beauty of its own, and its modelling, as
well as that of the other two nudes, is
very beautiful. E. S.

VIENNA.—In my last notes I spoke
of this year's exhibition at the
Kiinstlerhaus, to which two of the illus-
trations now given belong, and there
remains to be said something about the
Secession's show. In general, this exhibition
was much the same as previous displays
by this group, but the number of exhibits
was unusually small this year. A beautiful
piece of wood sculpture by Josef Boch,
a capital still-life painting by Alois
Haenisch, and a group of charming shell
cameos by Alfred Hofmann, were among
the specially interesting items, which
also included some of those beautiful

"A SLEEPER." WOOD SCULP-
TURE BY JOSEF BOCK

(Secession, Vienna)

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