The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-01-16

haIl B0tnZ, the German consul'gep-
taal. more than self-cousCi0us, tOr Was
he not ,haperoRing the new German
ambassador al what might De- caller
The lauers dcbut2 And this ,ampaNsa'
d0r-how Dored he did look some
BODY said he never smiled,
What extraordinarily good Engllsh
Herr Prof carl Mari speaks. SAID An
intelligent hooking New Yorker. aitef
thaltiag awhile wiki the famous art
teacher ot Munich The American eHi-
IDENTIFY did not know that Carl Mar.
Was born and educated In MilWaukte'
Then there vas John BigeloW hshtly
bearing Tie burden OF his ninety'thtee
wears. lie rated this old man ON me
back and told him he had known ms
father sixty wears ago. ana Deaiheu
upon Tho matuie charms of matr"h
Us he recalled dancing with htl s'ah"'
mother I'm he DAYS when bie"cAei-
ST. Sas far uptown.
one heard almost as much German
or French 9s English AIus's VINO
work On the daily and sunday neWspa
pers AMI fcl the magazines rubbed el-
bows with we'll tailored men from the
Calumet and knickerbocker clubs.
The artists Cuarreled over the meT'
its. OF this picture and OF mat taxing
sides honestly and fearlessl! Wh'le
the bediamonded danes and thelr pros
perous escorts listened eagerly III inc
hope II learning Why Boecklln shoula
be admired or what Was SO amazing
about Franz Stuck.
No wonder h. artists sQuaoelcd
over the pictures. FOR these had been
selected by committee OF the dlrec-
tors ~ the art schools OF Germany. Sc
leCted 20 show TO AMERICA what great
things Germany is doing In the worIu
~ art The white and gold catalogues
contained eulogy OF this German arr
OF today from the pen of Paul Clemen'
professor OF the University or Bonn.
These pictures must surely be fine II
they were sent here under such aus
pices. And yet American art students
asked themselves Can II be possloie
that this Is art? Must We unlearn al
We have ever been taught
Model With Bad Figure.
Great pictures there surely were
Some OF those Lenbach portraits were
superb. Those drawings and paintings
by Mcneil were worth the whole sho"
But Lenbach is dead and Menzel Is
dead. So too. is Arnold boeckllh
three OF whose pictures are In the eA
hibit. but they are. with one exception
scarcely typical OF this strange paihte'
OF fantastic dreams. One OF them, Al
the Spring is picture OF very pao
~ shaped young woman VINO mas
thrown OF her clothes In an uhtlu!
heap on the ground and Is calch'ht
water In her hands. The comment o'
the low brows' on this was ina
Roecklin must have had model WIZ
very bad figure.
There are landscapes which LOOK llh'
maps: scenes that are supposed 10 p'
sunlit. but on which the artist ha'
failed 10 make the sun shine. some 81
these are by men whose names ar
names 20 conjure with in Germany
Hans Thoma, Benno. Becker hah'
Won Petersen But their pictures snow
here will tempt no American students
IN Munich or Dresden or LEIPZIG &c
learn their art.
There is story evening SKY d
which Sir Purdon Clarke could not re
frain from remarking that any mar
who ever saw sky like that woulc
never see another. The exhibition Il
attracting large crowds and is wei
worthy OF visit, II only 10 see no"
Far short OF IFS ideals art can ran