Studio: international art (84.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

studies of old Austrian towns by which
Anton Novak has earned fame, clever
portrait studies by F. Zerlacher, and
landscapes by Ernst Eck, Wilhelm
Dachauer and Ferdinand Kruis. The
last-named artist showed a picture of
Grinding, now a suburb of Vienna, but
once the rural haunt of Schubert,Beethoven,
Moriz von Schwind, and Austria's famous
dramatist, Grillparzer. In the neighbour-
hood of Grinding there is a rich feast for
the artist in the form of mountain-uplands
and forest-clad hills through which the
silver Danube winds its quiet way. The
memory of Beethoven was again recalled
by a fine series of etchings by Alois Kolbe,
Ludwig Jungnickel, a dextrous draughts-
man, whose work The Studio was first
among art publications to notice and
illustrate, was also among the notable
exhibitors, as was Ferdinand Schmutzer,
whose portrait etchings I wrote about in
these pages some years ago, though on
this occasion he was represented only by
work in oils and water-colours. A. S. L.

PORT ELIZABETH—The overmantel
panel illustrated (p. 172) is one of a
pair designed by Miss Dorothy Kay and
executed by Mr. W. Jacobs both of Port
Elizabeth. They are the first of the kind
to be executed in South Africa, and the

SHELL CAMEOS. BY
ALFRED HOFMANN

(Secession, Vienna)

various woods used are of native growth.
The panel reproduced was shown at the
third annual exhibition of the South

" STILL LIFE-'" BY ALOIS HANISCH

(Secession, Vienna)

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