The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-21
Art I'm RaVaria.

worker than Kaulbach. Go to him as
as you may, you are sure TO find him
studio, in a loose coat lined with fur,
4 ng before his easel, now working at this
drawing of some story from Goethe or
speare, now at q cartoon, and, more
/, at an oil picture. Drawing is his
and what he delights in. And plea
at is to watch him as, with a piece of
Dial, he draws with sure hand the out
Iof o human figure. No workman
4 an overseer is more regular at his work
he. Now and then he gives himself a
ay, but it is very rarely, and there must
ONE circumstance which has led to the
ual occurrence. The cause gene
is the completion of some task
which he had been long at work;
then he gives himself holiday, and,
be summer, stays at home in his shady
On, reading a volume of Scott or Shake
Fe. If it be winter time his pastime is
by with some bit of satire, political or
h and he enjoys the fun as this figure or
group grows into form, and happy
b gives the character intended. One
cartoon, life size, remember seeing
or two ago. 1t was "Germania," nobly-
2rtioned woman, with fine head and
khtful countenance, armed too, with a
Ny sword girded to her side to do battle
I'D need be. Her commanding figure and
az limbs showed that, womanly as she
khe might be leader in the fight, but
m attention was absorbed by an open
n marked PHILOSOPHY, which she held
y hands; and so intense was her atten-
|tshe did not perceive that, as she walked
he crown which clasped her head was
I5g down backwards, and would be lost.
barge cartoon, which Kaulbach began long
Nin holiday time" is now being ex-
1bd for q charitable purpose, and has
q forth attacks and reproaches from the
5montane party. 1t represents che Grand
isitor Arbues (whom the Pope oanonized
pr three years ago., going to the execu-
! of an heretical family, who stand in the
aground. The stake, with its pile of
3, is seen further off, and a troop of
Ks in solemn procession are advancing
She fatal spot. Beside the Inquisitor,
b servants of the Inquisition are collect
ehe moneys and valuables of which the
fem1ed family have been despoiled. A
I or two ago one of party who had come
be the picture was explaining the subject
bis friends, when gentleman who was
|ent grew SO angry that scene ensued.
3wasthe imperative duty of good Catholic C
Iestloy such a calumnious work." he said;
matters went so far that the police had
be ummoned; and since then an extra
icenan is in attendance at the Academy
4 Ire he cartoon is exhibiting. Formerly,
X vas perhaps no town as large as Munich
4 re political questions were so little re-
Bee, for what did not Immediately con-
l.cal interests was not needed, and the
ti,ns passed over so quietly that there
hrdly sign of their taking place. Now,
e-er, battle is fought at the hustings as
ttng and determined as elsewhere. Over.
bit as it were, people have become pollti
bs and this change has been produced
fl, by the encroachments making, on the
! 1and, by Rome, and Prussia on the
e.
b art matters there is little to record.
aever market the artists have for their
tlres is foreign one-America chiefly
as to new buildings nothing has been
b since King Max dabbled in art, and
g the Maximilian Strasse. The large
ding at the end of it, overlooking the
is still unfinished, and from the non
sript forms which characterize it no one
ed udNb d OA mldU ~ ONChtuuly VIII
ike; but let it turn out as it may, it will
&ys be monstrosity.
Fchitecture is department of art which,
Il events, just now prospers less here thar
other; while in painting, as the late In
|ational Exhibition proved beyond al
bit, Bavaria could, without being accused
assumption, take her place beside tn
,pols of Dusseldorf, France, and Belgium
aetween Munich and Vienna there is Just
9his point of architecture marked differ
5e. AS regards pictorial art Vienna is sadl,
}the background. Her academy must b
cient in power, for little or nothin,
&nates from it of any note. The Austrian
hters who have achieved anything, studied
Sther schools; but in architecture 1 know
any city that can compete with the capi
on the Danube. Private buildings, tn
bees of the nobility, the houses of bushes
the great merchants, even those for the re
sale of goods, are noble in their proper
hs, tastefully elegant and pleasing to tn
gorgeous in decoration, or of graud AM
eere simplicity according to the edifce an
purpose. The internal decorations of som
the buildings are unique in the taste dis
aged and in the employment of material
lc0 III fORuts DuO WhlCh ldNO lhb
suse. The new opera-house, a thoroug
ork of art in all its parts, is an instance c
is.
The photographer Albert, who has made
luable discovery of a means of multiplyin
e negative picture by the printing pres
ze common lithograph, is busy at wor
.oducing in his new manner thousands {
,rtraits, views, etc. The plan has alread
zen noticed in your columns. The impre'
ons never fade, as the best photographs al
ertain to do in time. The process is muc
heaper than the present one of production
is quicker, neater, cleaner, as there is L
,aling in water, drying, cutting, and pas
lg, and the work is no longer dependent G
le weather to enable him to execute an ord
uickly. A photograph may be taken in IL
fternoon, and, by working the press 6
light, by the next morning any reasenab
mount of impressions can be furnished
he passing traveller or to meet some suddt
yet between such printed copi