The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-27
A LIGHTNING ARTIST.
A MAN who Paints = Biz Picture Im-
prOmptu In Mn Hour.

Berlin Correspondence OF the London Times
In the artistic world here OF late, no slight
fntter has been caused by the appearance oil
stgnor Carlo. described aa a concert painter
puzzle your readers Concert painterl What
can that mean? An artist who extends pic
tuTe In concert with another, after the man.
ner OF Beaumont and Fletcher, or Erckmann
and Chatrian7 No One who paints Arcadian
scenery to enhance the effect OF pastoral
songs2 Wide Of the mark A gentleman OF
the brush, distinguished from his brothers BY
the laborious care with which he devises, or
concerts, his pictures beforehand2 The very
opposite. It Is an artist. In fact, who, with
out q moments previous thought or warning,
standing on the stage OF concert-hali, and
having his subject suddenly prescribed
to him by one OF tho audience. will
dash off his work In almost less
time than 1t would take to photograph it--a
lightning Inner, painter improUisatore.
SIgnor Carlo was born In the year 1848, at
Milan, the son Of very poor parents, who In
1850 removed to Hungary. A strong artistic
inclination began to show Itself In the boy,
and he was placed under the care OF a painter,
paration OF colors. Later on he went to
Vienna, where poverty and repeated failures
could not damp his ardors and where he con-
tinued cultivating Ills art with perseverance
which has, at the age OF thirty-one, brought
him to such a pitch OF perfection In his par
ticular line as to have made him second to
none It was happy thought OF managerial
enterprise to secure the services OF this sim
gular man. Every evening, at popular
place OF amusement here, he mounts the
the audience by rapid and simultaneous
display Of tbs sister art. His performance is
afterward given away by lot. His subject
being suggested to him. the little dark-hued
man, OF true artistic type, with general
aspect OF careless desolation, Immediately
gpfzeS his brush withollta moments annarpnt
reflection, and with intense interest the
spectators watch the swift and grad
ual process which transforms q blank
extent of canvas into gorgeous
wreck .strewn sea or a golden sunset. His
work Is generally finished within the hour.
Duke OF Mecklenburg- Schwerin at Ludwigs-
lust, Stgnor Carlo was desired to paint In oil
a Hungarian landscape lPussta, with gypsy
camp, and this he did. In the space OF fifty
minutes, with such truth to nature and such
artistic skill as to excite the hearty admira-
ton OF all the court. Before society OF
artists lately, too. this wonderful mar, within
the short period OF forty three minutes, called
into glowing life an Italian evening land
scape with perspective OF classic ruins,
glancing rivulets and breathing groves. To
cartoon the same subject occupied him
slightly over quarter OF an hour. Precise
critics need not approach the work OF Signor
Carlo In the hope of finding perfection of
form, faultless distribution and blending OF
colors with mathematical proportion In per-
spective; they are scarcely such as, ON their
own merits, might entitle them to the ap-
prevail OF Mr.. Ruskin or admission into
the Academy; but, In view OF the conditions
under which they are produced, they are GER
tainly wonderful examples OF artistic SKILL
and must rank the author with those peculiar
prodigies Of mental and physical achieve
ment wherein the nineteenth century Is SO
rife.