The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1886-10-01
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FRIDAY. OCT. 1. 1886.
ART AND ARTISTS.

Horace Greeley's monument in
Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, is
q bronze bust resting on marble
base.
a portrait of Mazeppa has been
discovered in n monastery at kief,
and an etching of il has been under
taken by the academician, Nj. Omit
REF Kavkazky.
An exhibition of ecclesiastical art
objects will be held in Vienna next
year. The Minister of Worship has
taken this opportunity for sending
out circular to exhort the higher
clergy and the heads of conventual
houses to patronize native industry
as much as possible in their pur-
chase of ornaments for their churches
and chapels. He maintains that the
productions of ecclesiastical art in
Austria are equal to those of any
other country.
The unwilling of the statue of
Baron de Kalb will take place at
Annapolis, Nd, on the 10th of
August. General the Baron John
de Kalb was killed at the battle of
Camden, 1880, and in the following
October the Continental Congress
resolved that monument should be
erected to his memory in the city of
Annapolis. 1t has taken 106 years
to carry out the will of that Con-
gressional mandate, and Secretary
of State Bayard, in accepting the
statue on behalf of the Government,
was led to quote effectively those
familiar lines =
The Nation, meanly wise, and slowly
just,
To buried merit r,ars the ,ardy bus
The unwilling of the statue al
Annapolis was made the occasion
for an imposing military and civic
display. The statue represents the
distinguished German soldier in the
uniform of the Continental Army
leading the fatal charge on the field
of Camden. 1t is by Ephrain
keyser, native of Baltimore, who
after graduating at the Maryland
Institute Art School and Maryland
Academy of Art, continued his
studies at Munich and at Berlin
taking medals of honor at botl
places. Since 1878 he has resided
at Rome, where the De Kalb statue
was modelled and cast. 1t is nine
feet two inches in height, exclusive
of the raised arm, and was cast by
the wax process by G. b. Bastianell
of Rome. The pedestal, also de
signed by Mr.. Keyser, is of Mary
land granite, and is twelve feet 81,
inches in height.
The older Munich school of paint
ing, which has now passed away il
the last of its professors, was moth
ing if not weighty. Nevertheless
it had humorists, who suggest ,
Teutonic chuckle, as characteristic
as any smile or laugh among the
nations. And of these was Kar
Spitzweg, born almost eighty years
ago, the son of good merchant O.
the Bavarian city. Spitzweg TIT
father had definite views of his tire,
sons, one of whom was, like him
self, to deal in colonial imports
another to be physician an,
another a druggist. TO the futur
painter fell the lot last named, an
Karl worked resignedly at his stu
dies and at his calling until at tn
age of twenty-five the companion
. ship of painters revealed to him hi
own tastes and the true interest q
his life. 1t was late for a begin
ming, but the new artist made u
for lost time. His first picture, tn
"POor Poet" dealt with the peren
NAL but not congenial joke of tn
irony of starving poets conditions
Spitzweg emphasized the situatio
as much as did Hogarth; but til
German poet is shown enjoying a
least one luxury-solitude, Tn
picture was fairly well received, an
the painters second production,
landscape, found marked favor an
a ready purchaser. His position i
the Munich group was quickly as
sured, and more and more did h
make humorous genre his own POI
ton of the art of the little art city
Perhaps every Capital has, more
less, dual character; but there al
most emphatically two Munich
The natural, national and Teuton
Munich, still the Munich of I'll
people, of the language and of hi
tory. The other Munich, create
by dilettante King and gree
quantity of professors, is ne
classic. Italian, artificial, init
tive, and, sooth to say, extremeI