The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-13
IN MUNICH.
The Paradise of Students,
Music, Pipes, and Beer.
THE AMERICAN ART CLASSES.
How the Scholars Live ana \ muse
ThemseIves-A Privileged
Class-POverty.

Rutcome with me and see the boys
.ha-,selves. If it were midday Ne
uonId step into the Cafe Union, where
there Is table especially reserved for
American art students. Although 1t l.
univ the second table from he door, the
regular patrons of the cafe have learned
~ respect it. and select other places in
the room; while our artists themselves
nrotest that they would feel quite lost
if they we're obliged to sit anywhere ex-
rent at that table. But as it is evening
and the gas-jets have just been lighted,
We will wend our way down AUgusten
strasse, to the corner of Brienner,
where a large establishment known as
the "Walhalla" is located. 1t is at
least a second class establishment on
the restaurant and billiard plan. The
curtains are all drawn, according to a
c.rlouslv unenterprislng custom, but
We will enter by the side door just as if
we owned the whole establishment.
Shall we ask to be shown to the
American tables? Ii is quite unnec
essary. If there are any Americans in
YOU can find 1t out quick enough by a
mere cursory survey Of the room. IL
there are any, it is easy to find the
fables. since they are usually covered
with sketches an caricatures that they
haze Been careiosSY drawn on the surface
of The soft white wood. whle the boys
are lingering over their-beer There,
I've written it. The worst is told.
People who come here to live speedily
succumb to the beer-drinking habit,
which rules with even more deSpotic
SWAY in Munich than elsewhere in Ger
ma V. Thus even the ct -st,Idents-ho--
rible dictu-are usually seen dallying
over the fOaming beaker.
But they are jolly, gOod-hearted,
sensible fellows. had not expected to
find snch bright. modern. wide-awake
Young men among the ranks here.
They don't 90 about with long nails,
di,heveied locks. and generally I'M
kempt condition. Nothing of the sort.
TheI are decently dressed interested in
other things besides art. and. most re-
marksble OF al, they can talk ra-
tiOnally.
As YOU will speedily infer, these stu
dents live frugallv Most of our stu
dents are such as find il necessary to
economic, and in no place can econ
omy he better pTscticed than in Munich.
Living expenses are at minimum
here. Clothing is fabulOusly cheap.
The tuition bills are exceedingly mOder
ate AT present the charge is only
about $t1 90 a year, but there is every
prospect now that the SUM will be
raised 10 $500. When a student enters
tie department of composition he is
furnished with free studio and free
models.
The art students are recognized in
thousand other WAYS. They are ac-
corded reduced fares on railways,
cheap tickets TO the opera. and compli-
mentary tickets to various exhibitions.
They enjoy immunity from arrest
except in cases of the grosseSt crimes. F,
Each student carries certificate of
membership signed the academy of /
authorities, which he has only 10
present TO 4 policeman IN case of emer
geney, and he is politely requested to
cal at the station at certain hour on
the following dav Thus substantially /
Is art encouraged by the Bavarian state 4.
That there is poverty among the stu (
dents can not be denied, and in few
eases poverty OF the pinching, grinding /
sort 8. Fl r. fH.e
There has been almost panic among
those Who were. paying their own way T
here because Of the small number of .
tourists who have come here To pur-
chase paintings for their homes in .
other countries. This has come the /
hardest upon those who were copying
Eeu-known works in order to get the
tunds with which TO prosecute indepen-
cent original work. One American
Shols now copying Lem Before the +
'SoIah OF baIlenSten' for the family of
0oIlleli university told me of Il recent F
SPelle'iee OF his. A Chicago lady saw .
uIi'i az WsCk IN the New Pinakothek.
? : admired iSskill, heard others similarly
IIslTtVs II, and ordered a poreetJ OF
Young woman. MA ~
quired. 'Ou Peelei He III
ohe indicated portrait which, she adj h
iiHiieu aud be went to work. After Il
ibolF SeeAs OF ayduous skilled labor ne
, Iau inc picture done and sent it on to
' oale SSlncaSo aty. The latter kept il
Sooa many months and then returned {
. - ~ Iie ARTIST 81 his expense. with the
,,S:,eIu9iit tAat he had not followed the
GII!slndl strictly. Had it taken her all i
THIS time TO find that outq The ty71tb
Was Vas That she had thought 70 sell q real
a lunch picture TO great advantage. aud
t Enen sue found that there was no mar
Aet at Chicago for the work of An nh
AhqWn artiSt-be il never so meritori0us
-ehe resorted TO this contemDt;IJe
S s-l1;e For an artist to ha, copied faith
Iully Eoulo have been Illegal. and il
Ma, Mas only the general style of the original
mat she had asked HIM to follow.
~, dropped IN upon Young man fror,
9hi0 the other day who was drswing :
geath mask With charcoal. Before him
ne had i skull, and half dozen worLS
on The HRatomy OF the head: and tbare
ne was mpletely mastering the inter
ma r'ai ano external physiology OF the I'M
man head. an accessory to the tt,G,b5 !
,SAetchng simple" death mask He
looEeH MP with a long-drawn breath AZ :
uOn: O'--'S - '4'leS-
do ,2h mo. no. of course. we art students
% - d, ! funk any. An Inspiration bI0wS
~ m through the window aud We catch !.
~ me folks at home write for ero1irne,s ..
=, my work. If | send them this Iitfle !
ee,oNlng they wouldn't understand the
ne EesAs OF weary labor there ara ne
So II. 1t wouldn't look basut;fnI 20
tA'Nih. Sometimes I