The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-05
SEEN IN THE WORLD OF ART
ANT PUBLICATIONS m rms
COUNTRY AND EUROPE.

4 Matter N witch America d Eastward
-WOrk 81 uluslratOEs and PalnteFs
Prem laOa 10 l0Os IN a Munich
Album-ItAlian Critics Collection.
There are sOms art publications Ia
Europe after which We might probably
pattern. American illustrators are said
10 lead the world; az least their work
y reproduced by the magazines IN a
notable manner. But with the possible
exception d annual exhibitions such
a. that Of the Water Color Society In this
city thsre h little attempt 20 preserve for
reference OF edihcatiOn drawings in black
and white o. color. Autographs. etchlnR.
os Woodcuta Of our men. Occasionally the
0rOlisr Club or some analag oua orEaniza-
ton elsewhere puts forth such a monu-
mental edition Of Whistler's etched work
A. that edited by ]. a. Kennedy. but
such undertakings are rare; besides they
aTe inaccessible 20 the general public
Thanks 10 tho initiative Of Curator Prank
Weitenkampf and the seemingly in
eNhauatible resources o. the print depart
I
We are enabled from time TO time 20 enjoy
one man shows at the I,anoG Library.
Yst this n not eKaCtly what We refer 20
above; the important art journals Of Ger
many, France and Italy reprint In album
form the best % the work Sometimes
one artist il singled out for study and his
chief characteristics are ast forth in prose
and Illustration, then a group n dealt
with. OF ~ in the case Of Juesnd the
entire artillery Of it, art force Il dsployed
bsfOrs NJ with interesting results
We are moved 10 the above remarks
because We have been enjoying a special
number q the famous Munich KgRsi-
Matter Jugsnd IL contains tho amazing
number Of 1000 Illustrations. and In a
brief preface Editor GeorE Hirth relates
tho story Of the birth 81 the weekly. In
lSoS the idea of . weekly illustrated in
oolOrs vas conceived. Considering the
immature state % printing in oolors al
that time much Roadway vas made.
although not until the new century was
born could results b. truthfully said TO
b brilliant. Artists like Erlsr. MdnAer.
EiChler and Others gave their ums and
knowledge unsslhshly in the CAUSE. You
may enjoy tho album which includes
much Of the work from isos to 1905. all in
black and white eHospt the had u Bis
maFck. after Lsnhaoh. In oolOrs. which
serves a. frontispisos. Olancing through
tho biographical register you encounter
the names Of the majority Of German
born painters and illustrators and many
foreign born. from AmAn Jean tO Zuloaga.
Naturally the variety Of designs presented
IL gIsat and tho serious note IN not missing.
Fantastic. graceful. humorous. satirioal-
the attempt a. irony IL too heavy banded
% he oiticiasd-and symbolic, thaan
Illustrations arc eminently TsutOnic in
style aud execution. You miss the
passionate Imagination % the Italians
the delicate fancy and finer technique 81
the French. nevertheless there are com
penaAtng qualities.
We 80 X. won Ants studies Of arohi-
lecture. the charming WOmsn Of Ainan
Jean. Kari AFnold's comioal and by no
means caricAtured. figure of a Rsformer-
the fellow with the sociologio stomach
ache The eternally snyious and dizsat-
iseed; We SO tbs Won BaFtals figures
of fisher maidcns. BArtAolomSS beautiful
sculpturAl Feliefs, Kari Rausr's oon-
oentrated portraits q Schiller. Goethe.
Martin Luther. Gcrhart HauptmAnn
what q pity his heads Of Sehopsnhaner.
Ibssn and Nistzschs wers not included
The sturdy nudes Of Mar Bernuth. who
has evidently studied Andar1 Zoru's
amazOns, and B6oklins csntaurs and
fAuns. The inRusnoe % BJckhn IL till
paramount in German ART, a. a glance
az thess cuts will prove Franz Stuck 90
whose name always and srronsoualy two
dots over the u ara given by conscisn
tiOus American writsrs) followed the suit
% Bocklin and his sIperadded example
has flooded German pictorial art with I
mikes. kobolds water spritas znomes.
dryads. osntaurs, fauns that butt IN battle .
or make love 10 nymphs In the brake /
These creatures ~ water and woodland /
simply obssas the Imagination Of artists I
in the FatheTland The raalists. beaded |
by Mar Llebermann. have gicoeeded in |
somewhat stsmming the turbid romantic |
torrent, and Il is said that Manst may