The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-24
BAKING POWDER.
LOOKING FOR A PICTURE.
mr. Brandt on the Hunt for a New
Work for the Telfair Academy.

mr. Brandt on the Hunt for a New
Work for the Telfair Academy.
Mr.. Carl L. Brandt writes to the MORN
ING News from Hastings-o -the-Hudson,
that he is on theloOkout for new picture
for the Telfair Academy, but that he has
not been able to find any of high merit, the
price of which has not been above what
the academys picture fund will permit
him to buy. He hopes, though, sometime
during the season to find a picture that
will be of high merit and within the price
that the academy can afford. The fund
is increasing all the time and before long
will be sufficiently large to secure a
picture equal to any now in the collection.
Mr.. Brandt, in his letter, refers to the
fact that Prof. Victor Tilgner, the scalp
tor from whose hands are the statues of
Phideas, Raphael, Micheal Angelo,
Rubens and Rembrandt, in front of the
academy, is one of the committee TO
decide upon the merit of the
models of the Bismarck monument
to be erected in front of the new Reich
stagsgebaude, house of parliament, in
Berlin, apprOachable by q monumental
stairway from the Koenigsplatz.
The prince is to be represented in
bronze as Reichskanzler in Kuerassier
uniform To this the artist is bound I'M
der all circumstances. The artistic ar
rangement of the pedestal, size and ma
terlal is left to his Judgment and taste
Two models are, required from each
competitor, one of the figure with the
pedestal. The figure itself when COM
pleted is to have hight of sixty cent?
meters, the other to represent the entire
arrangement, including the architectural
embellishments and stairway.
The committee has $4,000 marks at its
disposal for prizes in the competition for
models. There will be ten prizes of 1000
marks, ten of , 600 marks and ten of ], 600
marks. The committee consists Of three
painters, four sculptors, three architects
and nine other gentlemen. The painters
are Count Harrach, Prof. Won Lembach,
Prof. Won Becker. The sculptors so far
appointed are Prof. Victor Tilgner and
Prof. Won Zumbusch, both Austrians. The
other two, who will be Germans, have
not yet been named. The architects are
Kylmaun, Ende and Wallot. The others
on the committee are Won Levetzow, pres
ident of the reichstag; DR.. Burklin, vice
president: Delbruck, minister resident;
Or. Slegel, congressman; DR.. Stuebel,
oDerburgermeister, Dresden; Count Ler-
chenteld, minister of Bavaria, and Privy
Councillor Won Lucaus
a competition as invited must result in
the best work obtainab4e When the
awards have been made, the successful
competitors will no doubt be invited again
for final competition, as was done in the
competition for the great monument
of Kaiser William. now in erection in the
capital of the F'atherland. The cost of
the monument has not vet been con-
sidered, at least the artists have not been
bound to any limit.
The appointment of Prof. Tilgner on
the committee of award of the prizes in
the competition for models is of interest
to Savannahians and those interested in
the Telfair Academy, in view of the fact
that he is the sculptor of the statues
which have attracted so much attention.