Studio: international art (90.1925)

BERLIN—PARIS

and taste in portraiture, and to see how L.
Sandrock is gaining as colourist and how
healthily modernism has influenced Otto
Thiele and Wilhelm Lategahn. Among
the sculptors Paul Gruson and Eberhard
Encke are remarkable for figures, and in
animal portraiture of various styles Ludwig
Vordermayer, Max Esser, Walter Haus-
child and K. Heynen-Dumont deserve
study. The graphic part is particularly
noteworthy. Fantasy and symbolism pro-
cure interest for W. Baum, Bastanier and
Birkle. Nature was exquisitely portrayed
in drawings by Arthur Johnson, and there
are excellent woodcuts by Hennemann
and Feyerabend. 0000

Jarno Jessen.

PARIS.—The water-colour by M. V.
Costantini, which we give here in
colours, was shown at the R.I. exhibition
this year under the title of Summer.

Our readers will no doubt remember
the particulars we gave in our number
for August, 1924, relative to M. Costan-
tini's style. Beginning as a painter in
oil, he was later attracted by the peculiar
charm of water-colour—its freshness, trans-
parency and fluidity in tone, which make
it a medium well worthy of the best
attention from an artist who knows enough
to paint without hesitation, and without
any afterthoughts. 0000
Zorn's admirable and unequalled nudes
in water-colour are well known. M.
Costantini, also, with his own outlook
(a much less rigorously realistic one)
has faced this difficulty of making a
highly finished painting of the nude in
water-colour. And he has succeeded, for
Summer is a complete and definitive
work, which leads us to hope that we
may see further essays in the same kind
from M. Costantini's brush. M. V.

PASSAU, SUNSHINE"
BY ALBERT BIRKLE

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