The art of the Dresden gallery; notes and observations upon the old and modern masters and paintings in the royal collection . there should be a sequel; a painting on anotherkey, from which the sad note shall be missing. Julius Rotings Columbus before the Ecclesias-tical Council of Salamanca is a strong picture, andthe figures, if a little theatrical, are well drawn andlifelike. The historic detail is well considered, andthe picture repays close observation. The portrait of His Majesty, King Albert ofSaxony, hangs here, painted by Leon Polile, anAcademy professor of Dresden. Pohle was born inL
The art of the Dresden gallery; notes and observations upon the old and modern masters and paintings in the royal collection . there should be a sequel; a painting on anotherkey, from which the sad note shall be missing. Julius Rotings Columbus before the Ecclesias-tical Council of Salamanca is a strong picture, andthe figures, if a little theatrical, are well drawn andlifelike. The historic detail is well considered, andthe picture repays close observation. The portrait of His Majesty, King Albert ofSaxony, hangs here, painted by Leon Polile, anAcademy professor of Dresden. Pohle was born inLeipsic in 1841. He has painted several of theroyal family. In Room 35 may be seen the likenessof Prince George, Duke of Saxony; this picture waspresented to the gallery by the artist in 1899. Theportrait of King Frederick August the Just of Sax-ony, one of the noble princes of this house, greetsus in the thirty-first room. It is by Karl Vogel,of Vogelstein, and was painted in 1823. Dramatic and full of tragic situation is CarlBahrs scene of the Finnish Magicians foretellingthe death of Ivan the Terrible. This picture was. /lDo&ern 6erman Masters 415 painted in 1850. Carl Bahr was an artist of thefirst half of the nineteenth century, as his workdenotes. The smooth mawkishness of Diethes Supper atEmmaus shows how low the standard of religiousart had fallen at this time. It is a relief to turnto a different theme. A realistic picture like the scene in the port ofHamburg, called Going to Work, is in early morn-ing light. It is a good genre painting, and shouldbe examined for its little incidents. It is by oneof the Carlsruhe painters, Kallmorgen, who is pri-marily regarded as a landscape painter, but withwhom the human element is almost never absent. The Ferry at Telemarken, Norway, by SiegwaldDahl, is a remarkably fine specimen of the earlierrealistic school. As is appropriate to the subject,the whole impression of atmosphere and colouringis cold: the drawing is exquisite, and the
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