. Art and artists of our time . or Herders Cid and for one of Schillers plays. In the intervals of this workhe produced several genre pictures, showing no particular direction in his talent, but gro^\■ingnaturally enough out of his excursions in the world of poetry and song. Such trivial themes as The Quartette, Life in the Cloister, The Friar, and Don Quixote among the Shepherds,are the common stock of artists nowadays, and Von AVerner put his hand into the bag withthe rest and accepted what he found there. After a while he turned his attention to historical-painting, where in fact his best l
. Art and artists of our time . or Herders Cid and for one of Schillers plays. In the intervals of this workhe produced several genre pictures, showing no particular direction in his talent, but gro^\■ingnaturally enough out of his excursions in the world of poetry and song. Such trivial themes as The Quartette, Life in the Cloister, The Friar, and Don Quixote among the Shepherds,are the common stock of artists nowadays, and Von AVerner put his hand into the bag withthe rest and accepted what he found there. After a while he turned his attention to historical-painting, where in fact his best laurels were, in time, to be won, but at first he simply followedthe general run, and produced for a while the same crop of lay-figures and marionettes, culti-vated vsdth such mechanical success by the rank-and-file of his artist-countrymen. It is impos-sible to avoid smiling as one reads for the fiftieth time the old titles: Conrad in Prison,Archbishop Hanno of Cologne carrying off Henry IV., and, of course, our steady friend. 266 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. Luther at the Diet of Worms. It was not until the stirring times of 1871, that the truetalent of Werner, which is at least a respectable one, found a field for itself where it couldwork in freedom, on subjects not outAvorn. He himself took part in the Franco-PrussianWar, and no doubt his participation in the siege of Paris gave a stimulus to his talent whichit would not have received from merely reading about the events, while there can be no doubtthat the fact that he saw what he has painted, and Avas a part of it, adds much to the value of
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