Studio: international art (87.1924)

ZAGREB

TOMB OF J. G. STROSSMAYER
DJAKOVO. BY RUDOLF VALDEC

ZAGREB (Jugo-Slavia). — Rudolf

Valdec (Ralph Valdetz) sculptor, is an
artist already in his early fifties, though he
is but little known in England. Of his
prolific creative power there can be no
question. His work stretches over a con-
siderable time, and we here give one
example. He has had as sitters most of the
crowned heads of his part of Europe, i.e.,
Jugo-Slavia, etc. a a a a
Professor of the Academy of Arts,
Zagreb, he stands highest among the
portraitists of Jugo-Slavia. He is one of

those artists of whom it may be truly said
that he stands for the truth in nature but
he sees it from the beautiful and ideal side.
His latest work has consisted of busts and
plaquettes of the reigning sovereigns of his
country. The beautiful and gracious young
Queen actually looks from the cast bronze
and hewn marble, with all the character-
istics of her countenance firmly given, a
Then there is the thoughtful grandeur
of the brow of Bishop Strossmayer (a
friend of Gladstone). The whole figure of
this great thinker and leader is found

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