. International studio. Kxhi-liilion at theRunstlerhaus,which was ojiencd by theKmperor, is remarkable •• and snake 64 for the comparatively largenumber of really goodworks. Among them alarge portrait group byJosef Jungwirth, repre-senting a sitting in theLower Austrian Diet, isone of the most note-worthy, because of theexcellence of the compo-sition as a whole and indetail. The work containsno less than a hundred-and-twenty portraits, foreach of which the painterreceived sittings. Promi-nent among the assembledmembers is Dr. CarlLueger, the Burgomasterof Vienna, to whom theme
. International studio. Kxhi-liilion at theRunstlerhaus,which was ojiencd by theKmperor, is remarkable •• and snake 64 for the comparatively largenumber of really goodworks. Among them alarge portrait group byJosef Jungwirth, repre-senting a sitting in theLower Austrian Diet, isone of the most note-worthy, because of theexcellence of the compo-sition as a whole and indetail. The work containsno less than a hundred-and-twenty portraits, foreach of which the painterreceived sittings. Promi-nent among the assembledmembers is Dr. CarlLueger, the Burgomasterof Vienna, to whom themembers are listening withupturned faces, illuminedby the light from theirgreen-shaded electric lamps. The entire work occu-pied two years in execution, and as may be imaginedinvolved a vast amount of preparatory study in theshape of portrait sketches and other details. Twoother important historical works were exhibited,both commissioned by the Archduke FrancisFerdinand—one by Ludwig Koch, representing BY BY KAKI. FAHRINGER
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