Studio: international art (86.1923)

STUDIO-TALK

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GOTHENBURG

imagination, the originality and one might
add the courage of Mr. Arvid Bjerke and
his fellow workers. If I am not mistaken
Mr. Bjerke is a much travelled man and it
is not difficult to discover influences from
southern and eastern lands, in places even
to a marked extent, whilst in other struc-
tures entirely modern ideas have found
expression, and the two do not clash with
or detract from each other’s harmonious
decorative effects. There is a wealth of
different motifs, and a singularly susceptible
sense for picturesque beauty is evidenced
both in the scheme as a whole and in a
number of details often in themselves
modest. Harmony and symmetry have been
maintained, but monotony and repetition
avoided, I think I may say everywhere.
One need only look at the two minaret-like
turrets in one of our illustrations to find
this confirmed. a a a a
It is sad that all this beauty, or most of it
at least, is to be so short-lived, although its
very nature may be evanescent; but a few
buildings will remain, including the big
art gallery, with its right-hand wing, facing
the main entrance, which is destined to
become Gothenburg's Art Museum, and
I believe the pond with its rockery garden
will also be allowed to remain,

G. B.

VIENNA.—At the interesting Kunst-
lerhaus Exhibition, among other notable
work, that of Josef Jost deserves special
mention for his admirable studies of still
life. Another interesting work of value was
Harvest Time in the Mountains, a sunny
effective picture. The names of the artists
include Ferdinand Brunner, Thomas
Leiner, Hugo Darnant, Josef Kopf, Oswald
Grill among the painters, and L. Lewan-
dowski, Karl Perl, F. Opitz, O. Icha and
J. Unterholzer among the sculptors, the
last three working chiefly in wood. There
were also many fine medals. A. S. L.

MOSCOW.—The literary world of
Russia recently celebrated the seventy-
fifth anniversary of the death of Vissarion
Grigoryevitch Byelinski (1811-1848), one
of the most eminent Russian literary critics
and essayists, who influenced his contem-
poraries and even succeeding generations.
For this occasion the Moscow engraver
Paul Pavlinoff, with whose work the
readers of this magazine are already
acquainted, executed a very fine portrait of
Byelinski, equally striking as an mono-
graphic document and as a masterly wood-
engraving. a 0 0 a a

In the January number of The Studio
the writer of these lines published some

FOUNTAIN, JUBILEE EX-
HIBITION, GOTHENBURG

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