DOI issue:
No. 381 (December 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: one hundred and ninety-three illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0371
AMSTERDAM—MUNICH
AMSTERDAM—Our reproduction of
a picture by Vroom recaptures for us
the spirit of an age when the seas were
lawless indeed. The Dutch refused to
dip their flag to Sir William Monson's
ship, and though no war was in progress
between England and Holland, a lively
engagement was the result. An anticipa-
tion of a century's rivalry, it is also a
typical episode in the epic story whose
full scope will be fittingly revealed in the
forthcoming Studio publication " Adven-
tures by Sea." 0000
MUNICH.—The Galerie Paulus in
Munich recently held an exhibition
of the paintings of Rudolf Treumann.
Treumann was born at Rastatt in 1873
and studied in Paris, Florence and Munich.
His development underwent several phases
—from the hard, uncompromising realism
of one filled with revulsion at social in-
justice and the hideousness of proletarian
masses and cities, to a resplendent, richly-
imaginative symbolism in which human
fates and passions were transfigured into
fantastic forms, opalescent colour and
unearthly landscapes. 000
Treumann has become an ascetic in
art and lives in seclusion on the banks of
the Ammersee. He has disciplined percep-
tion into apperception, enhanced the eye
to an organ of deeper spiritual seizure and
the hand to a faithfulness to nature that is
reverent and pantheistic. His work is the
fruit of profound and untiring contempla-
tion—a process which has given it a decora-
tive and in some aspects Japanese quality.
There is a distinct though austere
romantic spirit in Treumann's bleached
skeleton trees on Alpine heights, in
branches heavy with snow or beards of
moss, in river-banks hung with icicles
and dew-spangled spiders' webs in
shadowy forests, in flights of ravens
athwart the stems of silver birches, in the
phosphorescence of glow-worms in jungles
of ferns and twigs. His technique—a
deliberate though modernised old-masterly
meticulousness—is in superb harmony
with his visions. 0000
Herman George Scheffauer.
' THE FLIGHT OF SEA-BIRDS '
BY RUDOLF TREUMANN
351
AMSTERDAM—Our reproduction of
a picture by Vroom recaptures for us
the spirit of an age when the seas were
lawless indeed. The Dutch refused to
dip their flag to Sir William Monson's
ship, and though no war was in progress
between England and Holland, a lively
engagement was the result. An anticipa-
tion of a century's rivalry, it is also a
typical episode in the epic story whose
full scope will be fittingly revealed in the
forthcoming Studio publication " Adven-
tures by Sea." 0000
MUNICH.—The Galerie Paulus in
Munich recently held an exhibition
of the paintings of Rudolf Treumann.
Treumann was born at Rastatt in 1873
and studied in Paris, Florence and Munich.
His development underwent several phases
—from the hard, uncompromising realism
of one filled with revulsion at social in-
justice and the hideousness of proletarian
masses and cities, to a resplendent, richly-
imaginative symbolism in which human
fates and passions were transfigured into
fantastic forms, opalescent colour and
unearthly landscapes. 000
Treumann has become an ascetic in
art and lives in seclusion on the banks of
the Ammersee. He has disciplined percep-
tion into apperception, enhanced the eye
to an organ of deeper spiritual seizure and
the hand to a faithfulness to nature that is
reverent and pantheistic. His work is the
fruit of profound and untiring contempla-
tion—a process which has given it a decora-
tive and in some aspects Japanese quality.
There is a distinct though austere
romantic spirit in Treumann's bleached
skeleton trees on Alpine heights, in
branches heavy with snow or beards of
moss, in river-banks hung with icicles
and dew-spangled spiders' webs in
shadowy forests, in flights of ravens
athwart the stems of silver birches, in the
phosphorescence of glow-worms in jungles
of ferns and twigs. His technique—a
deliberate though modernised old-masterly
meticulousness—is in superb harmony
with his visions. 0000
Herman George Scheffauer.
' THE FLIGHT OF SEA-BIRDS '
BY RUDOLF TREUMANN
351