Modern etchings, mezzotints and dry-points . estive than real, poeticand indefinable. T. F. Simon, a native of Prague, lives chiefly inParis. His plates in colour show great freshness and purity, and arenotable for their refined atmospheric effects and delicacy of manipu-1 ation. Ferdinand Michel, a colourist, and Oskar Laske have bothdone capable etchings. The youngest etchers are pupils of Professor Schmutzer. Quitein the van of this group is Max Pollak, a native of Prague, agedtwenty-six. The works here reproduced show him to be possessedof true artistic feeling combined with a mastery of t
Modern etchings, mezzotints and dry-points . estive than real, poeticand indefinable. T. F. Simon, a native of Prague, lives chiefly inParis. His plates in colour show great freshness and purity, and arenotable for their refined atmospheric effects and delicacy of manipu-1 ation. Ferdinand Michel, a colourist, and Oskar Laske have bothdone capable etchings. The youngest etchers are pupils of Professor Schmutzer. Quitein the van of this group is Max Pollak, a native of Prague, agedtwenty-six. The works here reproduced show him to be possessedof true artistic feeling combined with a mastery of technique. Heis forcible but modest, and in every way an etcher of great promise,whose career it will be interesting to follow. Lastly, mention must be made of a group of lady etchers, allpupils of Professor Michalek. Anna Mik, M. von Lerch, EmmaHrnczyrz, and Tanna Kasimir-Hoernes are all recognised as etchers ofmerit, each in her own particular line. Their work testifies to sound-ness of manipulation coupled with artistic truth. 220 AUSTRIA. THE MUSICIAN. ORIGINAL AQUATINTWITH ETCHING BY ARMIN HOROVITZ AUSTRIA
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