La Junta tribune., 1908-09-05

ana the Neue finOkOtnek. tne one
devoted to the old masters and the
other to the celebrated painters and
sculptors Of this century. The Cry
stal Palace is a large gallery devoted
to the paintings and sculpture of the
artists of Munich. l saw several
hundreds of most beautiful paintings
and a number of fine statuary by
Munich's own sons and daughters.
OF the masterpieces of the old
artists | will name but few. Raf-
fael's Holy Family Peongini's
Vision of st. Bernard" Peongini
was Raffael's teacher, as you know.
These are two beautiful landscapes
by Jan Wynants-"A Morning Land
scape" and IAN Evening Land
scape." Several of Rembrandt's
masterpieces are here. as we are
nearing his home. Among them
II will name The Alteration" )"
Raising the Cross" Taking Down
from the Cross" The Ascension"
Christ Coming from the Tomb,
The Holy Family" etc. Also
Ruben's The Madonna in a Flower
Wreath" The Rope of the Daugh-
ters of Leucippus, most beautiful
picture. and 1.-The Last Judgment"
and "The Hollensturlz," picture
of the casting of the wicked into
hell. The German painters painted
all kinds of pictures. taking their
subjects from the life about them.
while the Italian painters confined
themselves almost wholly to religious
subjects. They painted the human
face and figure as holy. spiritual
and often solemn being. without
smile. a laugh. or any natural emo
| ton or sentiment. None of their
pictures are true to life. No one
ever saw man or woman as the
Italian painters painted them. Their
fame rests upon their "Madonnas.
Holy Families" "Entombments,
"Christs. Saints" and such ideals
of their religious faith. The Ger
man painters painted men and
women much as they are today, even
in their religious paintings. They
painted landscapes-the Italians
never-the laboring men, the jolly
monks. the chase. boar fights. lion
fights and men and women in their
natural everyday life. The German,
not only in his painting. but in his
sculpture, architecture and frescoes
is lacking in the refinement of the
Greek and Roman artists; for black
colors often predominant and the
savage boar's head, lions head and
bears head, with savage teeth and
in coarse sandstone. decorate their
great buildings. instead of the grace
full forms and white marble that are
still to be seen on the ruins of the
old Roman temples and public build
ings. The Germans manners, GUS
toms and habits of life have much to
do with the spirit of his art: for in
their excessive beer drinking and
the hardships placed upon their
women. the finer senses and tastes
are not cultivated as they otherwise
would be.
And this reminds me that saw
women cleaning the streets of Mum
ich, sweeping up the droppings Of
the horses, cleaning the street car
tracks and doing the most menial
work. At Nuremburg saw women
carrying mortar on building, on
which fully twenty-five or thirty
men were working. The had an
iron vessel which they carried full of
mortar, swung on their backs by
two straps over their shoulders.
They pull heavily loaded carts every
where; and have often seen a
woman and a dog pulling a loaded
cart in the streets. She works in
fields with the men. comes in when
/ they come in and cooks their meals
besides. A couple Of German ladies
were riding in the same compart-
ment. as we were going to Munich.
and as we passed where some women
were working in the field. said to
them, I'VE never see this in Amer
ica." One Of them replied. I'm
America man bedient die frau, aber
| in Deutschland die frau bedient den