Studio: international art (90.1925)

BERLIN—PARIS

' THE ARTISTS' FESTIVAL :
BY ROBERT E. STUBNER

peculiar to that school. In later years he his favourites, but above all the great
devoted himself particularly to the render- Sargent. 0000a
ing of festive, theatrical and society The painting representing a scene from
scenes, but he has also painted some fine the Russian Ballet shown herewith origin-
interiors with a quiet charm of colour. To ated from sketches made during the
quote himself, " his sense for romanticism performance in Berlin. 000
makes him seek for objects out of every-day Collective exhibitions of Stiibner's works
life, in hours of a sort of heightened joie have been held at the Gallery of Eduard
de vivre his eyes find enjoyment in light Schulte, Berlin, and the great annual
effects and sparkling dresses/' Nothing exhibition in Berlin. 000
appeals to him more than to go into

festival crowds or to attend select theatrical OARIS.—It was at the 1920 Salon that

performances in which Berlin abounds, in I first I came to know the work of

order to make his studies and sketches. Joachim Costa. His statue, Le Poilu,

Unlike many of the modern German seemed predominant, even amongst the

artists, he is not hunting after progress at best of the exhibits ; and I was the more

any price, but to him art is the eternal moved by it because my own war-service

oasis where he may take refuge from the had profoundly impressed me with the

restlessness of our times. 000 greatness and humility of the spirit dis-

Of foreign artists he calls Besnard, played by troops, so that when I saw

Simon, Jaques Blanche, Gaston la Touche sculptors failing to reach the heights my

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