The sun., 1909-01-04
GERMAN ARTDISPLAY TO-DAY
RECEPTION TO THE NEW AM.
BASSiDOR THE FIRST EVENT.
More Tban 100 Works OF Art Included In
the Display Kaiser One VINO Helped
New Accessions Include q COrot
and Two Eariy English Portraits.


and Two Eariy English Portraits.
In the January number Of the Bulletin
OF the Metropolitan Museum OF Art. issued
| to-day. announcement Is made OF the
opening of the exhibition of contempor-
ary German art tonight with a recep-
tion to the members Of the musuem and
their friends In which the German Am
bassador and members Of the commission
that organized the exhibition will par
ticipate.
The exhibition. which has been ar
ranged in cooperation with the German
Government and with the sanction OF
the Emperor, includes more than two
hundred works Of art. distributed as
follows 1871 oil paintings including por-
traits. landscapes and figures; SO draw
ings and water colors and rs pieces OF
sculpture
The collection Is shown in the new wing
Of the museum on the Fifth avenue front,
where II will occupy the seven galleries
Of the upper floor and will remain open
during the months Of January and Feb
ruary. private view Of the exhibition
was given at the museum on Saturday.
Among the contributors TO the exhibit
tion is the German Emperor, who has
given proof OF his interest by having his
portrait expressly painted for this oc-
casion by Arthur kampf. president OF
the Berlin Academy. and also by giving
his consent TO the loan OF fourteen paint
ings and fourteen drawings by the
National Gallery of Berlin, larger num-
ber Of works, it Is said, than has ever
| kaa lns,,N tn IN
exhibition. The Prince Regent Of Bavaria
has also lent picture from his private
collection. and in addition to the National
Gallery OF Berlin the public galleries Of
Germany which have contributed are
the New Pinakothek Of Munich, the Dres-
den Academy OF Art. the Karlsruhe
Academy. the Konigsberg Gallery, the
Grand Ducal Museum Of Weimar and
the City Museum of Wiesbaden. Nu-
merous private collectors and ertists
in Germany have also loaned works,
Although it was the original intention
Of the promoters to contne this exhibit
-on to the works OF living artists. by
| request OF the museum representative
examples Of four Of the most eminent
painters who have recently died have
also been included, These are Arnold
bach and Adolf Won Menzel.
Jenbach Is represented by several
notable paintings including Ecstasy.
a figure piece William Leib is repre-
sented by -Bavarian Peasants" loaned
by the National Gallery Of Berlin. Other
pictures loaned by the Berlin Gallery
are "The Surf by Arbold Bocklin, and
The Gymnase Theatre by Adolf Won
| Menzcl.
Other artists represented are Franz
| Stick, who Ia represented by DortrslS
Of himself Max IAbermann. " ho has con-
tributed a portrait Of Director Wilhelm
Bode Of the Royal Museum at Berlin;
! Fritz Won Uhde hachan +. Baer a land |
soapist; Pleur, l.. Herterich and Pdtz, one
Of the younger German figure painters
The Government commission under |
whose authority and with whose active
ranged Is made up as follows: Theodor |
Lewald Of the Imperial Ministry OF the
| Interior, chairman; Baron Hilmar Won |
dem Bussche Of the Imperial Foreign
Office, Paul Goetsch Of the Imperial Foreign |
0nice, Friedrich Schmidt. director Of
the Prussian Ministry Of Education;
Wilhelm Bode. director general OF the
Royal Museum OF Fine Arts, Berlin;
Arthur Kampf, president OF the Royal
Academy Of Fine Arts, Berlin; Karl Marr
Of the Royal Academy OF Fine Arts, Mu-
General. With theee gentlemen Hugo
Resinger, a collector OF this city, has
been associated A catalogue OF the
exhibition has been prepared under the
direction Of the German commission,
with introduction by Prof Clemen and
biographical notices Of the artists rep
resented written by Prof JUST.
Important recent accessions by the 1
museum include Corot's famous paint
ing The Sleep Of Diana acquired by
purchase. and three pictures, two por-
traits OF the seventeenth and eighteenth
by Alfred Thompson Brcher. all gifts
TO the Metropolitan from Mrs. Wheeler
Smith. The earlier OF the two portraits
represents. according TO tradition. the
Republican pamphleteer OF Cromwelfs
time. John Liburne, known as Free Born
John. The portrait is said to have been
painted between l6+0 and 1850. /
The other portrait is English apd OF
the middle OF the eighteenth century. 1
II represents an elderly gentleman. half
length. in the costume OF the period,
standing by table and against back
bround of book cases
In this. as in the other. the name OF
the painter is unknown; A pastel por-
trait Of Josiah Ingersoll has been pre-
sented to the museum by Mrs. Caroline
Z. Lawrence Ingersoll.
A notable gift from Edward y. Adams
le a kIOup tutiiuu hO'H'k
by Arthur Lewin-Funke, a German sculp-
tor and the director OF the Academy for
Painting and the Plastic Arts, founded
by him in Berlin in 1901.
Nineteen English. Italian. French and
American medals are gifts from Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick 5. Wait Gifts from
Mrs, Robert W. De Forest include two
pieces OF Italian carved and gilded wood
of the eighteenth century and four an
cient gold Syrian earrings. A II una
nian peasants 3 costume OF the nineteenth
century embroidered is a gift from Prn-
cess Nicholas Feodosieff Cantacuzene.
Among recent loans are a jade noun
tain, one OF the largest known examples
Of carved jade, deposited in the museum
by Herbert \. Squiers, formerly United
States Minister to Cuba and Pan
anna. This piece OF jade IL 3s inches
long % inches high. lsIs inches in width ,
and weighs $40 pounds. II is said to be
the largest piece Of jade ever discovered
in Turk estan. In color il is white and {
on il are number Of small figures in
Chinese costume. On one side is an in
scription Of the Emperor kien-hng 073s
1881. Il
The museum has also received as n
loan from Frits ', Holm, NJ X. A. s.. a !
replica in stone of the 80 called HISTORIAN ,
tablet from Sianfu. Shens province,
China. formerly the imperial capital
The chief interest in this monolith. which
weighs 5000 pounds, is the inscription,
written in Syriac and Chinese. The date ,
of the tablet is Isl A. D. II was aCci-