THE STUDIO

MODERN GERMAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING. BY DR. ALBERT
DRESDNER.
(Translated by E. Blake Geake. )
MODERN German landscape painting
dates from the year 1890. It was about that time that a storm of impres
sionism and plein-air painting broke in upon traditional study and very soon swept over the whole world of art. Berlin led the way in 1899 with its Secession Exhibitions, its Cézannes, Van
Goghs, its Gauguins and Edvard Munchs, and here also was witnessed the rise to
power of those young disciples of Max Liebermann, Waldemar Rosier and Theo
von Brockhusen, both of whom died, alas, at the height of their success. Their work bears a strong personal character,
very different from that of Ulrich Hübner, who relies for effect upon warm rich colour
ing and simplicity of motif. His dexterous pencil has immortalised Lübeck and Pots
dam in the happiest conceptions — green
towers and cupolas, picturesque rows of old houses, darkly glistening waters, deep shady canals, and then again the bustle of harbour life, all dimly veiled in some nebulous atmosphere.
During the period 1900-1910 this movement had become an accomplished fact, and there was established an able school of modern landscape painting whose aim was realism in art, true landscape
“ portraiture ” and an intelligent study of nature in every aspect. But impending change was already making itself felt and reaction set in with surprising suddenness. A breach in the Berlin Secession in 1910-11
STAFFELSEE. ” BY
GEORG SCHRIMPF