The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27
And AS a Result Change mart
Life 0f;:Paris is Almost
- 81 lnealCulable.
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tfGorKespeRdence OF -Assoellted Press,.
AaSlS, Dec, &c. The change in art
ihe N Paris Is almost fncalculable.
y the National school OF the BeanA
Arts 300 OF Its 1900 students have
Joined the allied armies Four Of the
professors are also at the front, Bran
DON Mason, Marcek and Leroux.
The closing OF the Louvre, the LUX.
emburg and other museums; the can
ceiling OF many important exhibitions
during the winter; the suspension OF
the classes in many other. large acad-
entes besides the Beaux Arts; the
departure OF nearly ninety per cent
OF the French artists who are now
under arms AID the disappearance OF
thousands Of other artists of every
nationality are some OF the conse-
quencea Of the war upon this phase
OF life In Paris.
Many Have Fallen
Among the first OF the Beaux Arts
men to fall ON the battlefield was
Morris Berthon, chief OF -Jausscly's
atelier and also familiar figure at
Jnitens. He had been a candidate for
the Prix de Rome and numbered
many Americans in his circle of COM
i'ades. Jean Hillnacher, another
prominent Beaux Arts man, has fallen
ct the battle OF ViItry-le-F Francois:
he, received a second prize in the LAST
Erik: de Rome concur. Noel Hall.
Pierre Sylvan Petit, Henri Caroiy.
Georges Aussenard, Maurice Vidal,
Rierre Sibian, Louis Planszewski,
Georges Demonchy and :Lucien Rou-
stan, Louis Ringuet and Jean Petit,
have been killed in battles. Gustave
Bniss6n, the guardian, SO well below
ed by the Americans who have work.
ed in the great National school, has
also fallen, as color bearer In the 18th
infantry. He was killed in rescuing
the flag of his regiment.
Pierre Laurens, the second son OF
Tho dahious painter Jean Paul Laur.
ems, mas been wounded and taken a
prisoner. He is now being cared for
in the Red Cross hospital in Witten-
berg, Germany. He has wide circle
OF friends In Baltimore. where he had
been recently 10 arrange the placing
81 the decoration 1.-THE Surrender OF
Yorktown painted by his father.
Pierre Lanfens is also well known m
New York City, where he has painted
many important portraits.
Known in America
Monsieur Hauffbuer, widely known
in America, has returned to France
from Richmond, Va, where he hau
been painting u decoration commits
stoned by the state He is now. in the,
French army. A. r. Ulman, is another
French artist with an International
reputation. who is at the front.
Among the men who exhibited in
the sFuturists' shove two years ago
in New York are Andre Duren, who.
is now a military chauffetir; Charles
Csrmoen, ON duty in one of the forts
near Dion; Andre de Segonzac, on
guard near Toul and de la Fresnaye,
who was :eS Tempt, but nevertheless
entered as volunteer. He was woun-
ded, but has returned to his regiment
after q short convalesccnce. Jacques
Villon is in the trenches near Las
signy, and dozens of others could be
mentioned Matisse, who is still in
Paris, is impatiently waiting his mo-
tice to join. his regiment, and has ar
ranged SO that the exhibition which
no is to give. in New York next Feb
ruary will receive some of the best
OF his works. notwithstanding the
fact that many of his pictures are
held in Berlin.
Charles Huard. whose wife is the
daughter of the late Francis Wilson,
is one of the many well known etch-
ers who are now in the French army.
His chateau near yillers Cotteret was
OCCUPIED by Won Kluck and his gen
erals, who have taken away every