. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. e. The pictures in which the essentialcharacteristics of the Prague school stand outmost clearly were the work of Theodorich ofPrague. More than one-hundred-and-fifty can-vases by him have come down to us. The physi-ognomy which we find repeated throughout—thelow but broad forehead, stumpy nose, and stronglyconspicuous cheeks—point unmistakably to theSlav type. Trenkwald, Karl Swoboda, AntonLhota, Emil Lauffer were all of them painters ofthe school of Historic Romanticism, but theirachievements never rose above the general
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. e. The pictures in which the essentialcharacteristics of the Prague school stand outmost clearly were the work of Theodorich ofPrague. More than one-hundred-and-fifty can-vases by him have come down to us. The physi-ognomy which we find repeated throughout—thelow but broad forehead, stumpy nose, and stronglyconspicuous cheeks—point unmistakably to theSlav type. Trenkwald, Karl Swoboda, AntonLhota, Emil Lauffer were all of them painters ofthe school of Historic Romanticism, but theirachievements never rose above the general averageof the school. For a long time during the seven-teenth century a painter named Karl Skretaoccupied a leading position, and among his fol-lowers were Peter Brandl, Raab, and Lorenz. Coming down to the present day, it certainlyseems strange that while year by year hundreds ofartists migrate to Nuremberg, to Rothenburgon-the-Tauber, to Worpswede, to Dachau, and manyother places, often establishing themselves incolonies, Prague, with her wealth of picturesque. ance in the history of art I20 THE RIVERSIDE, PRAGUE BY VICTOR STRETTI Old Prague
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