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auf der Weltausstellung 1904 in St. Louis / USA

 

 

 

 


The Louisiana Purchase Exposition - World Fair St. Louis 1904

 

http://www.gustav-jahn.atDie Louisiana Purchase Exposition (informell auch als "The Saint Louis World's Fair" bekannt) war eine Weltausstellung, die vom 30. April bis 1. Dezember 1904 in St. Louis im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Missouri stattfand. Die Ausstellung wurde – mit einem Jahr Verspätung – zur Feier des 100. Jubiläums des Louisiana Purchase von 1803, also des Verkaufs der französischen Kolonie Louisiana an die Vereinigten Staaten, organisiert.

Im Rahmen der Weltausstellung wurden auch die Olympischen Sommerspiele 1904 ausgetragen, die jedoch kaum Beachtung fanden. Insgesamt besuchten 19,7 Millionen Menschen die Ausstellung.

(OT: The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the Saint Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904)

 

 

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Abbildungen: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the Austrian Government Building

Neben Künstlern des Wiener Hagen Bundes (wie Cossmann Alfred (Vienna), Hegenbart, Fritz (Munich), Lefler, Heinrich, and Urban, Joseph (Vienna), Wesemann, Alfred (Vienna)) u.v.a. , waren auch Werke von Albin Egger Lienz, Ferdinant Andri, Alois Delug und Gustav Jahn in St. Louis vetreten, um für Österreich und seine Schönheiten zu werben.

Für die Weltausstellung gestaltete GUSTAV JAHN im Auftrag der K.K. Staatsbahngesellschaft, eine Reihe von (12) Alpenansichten.

Gezeigt wurden diese im "Austrian Government Building", im Raum "illustrating austrian live and szenery" und er erhielt dafür das Diplom der bronzenen Medaille für Kunst.

Die großflächigen Friesen wurden nach dem Ende der Weltausstellung, im Dezember 1904 nach Wien transferriert und schmückten danach die Ankunftshalle des alten Wiener Westbahnhofes (Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahnhof).

Der Verbleib dieser Bilder bzw. Friesen ist uns leider nicht bekannt. Auch ist es uns bis dato noch nicht gelungen, alte Innenaufnahmen oder Abbildungen des Wiener Westbahnhofes zu bekommen, worauf die Friesen Jahns zu sehen sind.

 


 

Ausstellungsverzeichnis Worlds Fair 1904 St.Louis

www.gustav-jahn.atwww.gustav-jahn.atOFFICIAL CATALOGUE OF EXHIBITORS
Universal Exposition
ST. LOUIS, U.S.A. 1904 .
DIVISION OK EXHIBITS
FREDERICK J. V. SKIFF, Director
Department B, ART

JAHN Gustav, Vienna - Nr. 223 - Painted Friezes, installed in the room "illustrating austrian live and szenery"

 

 

HALSEY C. IVES, Chief
REVISED EDITION.
PUBLISHED FOR THE COMMITTEE ON PRESS AND PUBLICITY BY
THE OFFICIAL CATALOGUE COMPANY (INC.)
ST. LOUIS, 1904

JAHN Gustav, Vienna - Nr. 223 - Painted Friezes, installed in the room "illustrating austrian live and szenery"

 

  Abbildung World Fair Title  
1. http://www.gustav-jahn.at Peasant’s Wedding Bauernhochzeit in Niederösterreich
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Procession around the Lake

(A Procession round the Lake)

Fronleichnamsprozession auf dem Traunsee
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Tyrolean popular Dance

( A Dance in Tyrol)

Beliebter Tiroler Volkstanz
4. http://www.gustav-jahn.at Priest blessing Montain Pasture Einsegnung einer Alpe in Tirol
5. http://www.gustav-jahn.at Parade of Tyrolean Sharp Shooters Parade der Tiroler Schützen, Schützenfestzug in Tirol
6. http://www.gustav-jahn.at Climbing the Glacier Bergsteiger in den Hochalpen
7. http://www.gustav-jahn.at Return from Chamois hunting Heimkehr von der Gamsjagd
8. http://www.gustav-jahn.at Skeeing in the Wienerwald Skiläufer im Wienerwald
9. http://www.gustav-jahn.at Scenery of an Adriatic Port Szene aus dem Hafen von Triest
10. http://www.gustav-jahn.at Cattle Fair in Carinthia Viehmarkt in Kärnten
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Wrestling Match of Salzburg Peasants

(Wrestling in Sazburg)

Ringkampf von Salzburger Bauern
12. http://www.gustav-jahn.at Games on the Ice in Styria Eisschiessen in der Steiermark

Für die Darstellungen erhielt Jahn das Diplom der bronzenen Medaille für Kunst.

 


 

Neben Künstlern des Wiener Hagen Bundes (wie Cossmann Alfred (Vienna), Hegenbart, Fritz (Munich), Lefler, Heinrich, and Urban, Joseph (Vienna), Wesemann, Alfred (Vienna)) u.v.a. , waren auch Werke von Albin Egger Lienz, Ferdinant Andri, Alois Delug und Gustav Jahn in St. Louis vetreten, um für Österreich und seine Schönheiten zu werben.

Weitere Künstler:

Adams, John Quincy, Vienna. Bara, Leopold, Vienna. Bernt, Rudolf, Vienna. Brunner, Ferdinand, Vienna. Czech, Emil, Vienna. Danilowatz, Joseph, Vienna. Darnaut, Hugo, Vienna. Delug, Alois, Vienna. Egger-Lienz, Albion, Vienna. Egner, Marie, Vienna. Fischer, Ludwig Hems, Vienna. Geller, Johann Nepomuk, Vienna. Hamza, Johann, Vienna. Hessl, Gustav H., Vienna. Jungwirth, Joseph, Kirchberg. Kaufmann, Adolf, Vienna. Koch, Ludwig, Vienna. Kruis, Ferdinand, Vienna. Larwin, Hans, Vienna. Lebiedzki, Eduard, Vienna. Lohwag, Ernestine, Vienna. Mielich, A. L., Vienna. Petrovits, Ladislaus Eugen, Vienna. Pfluegl, Alfred von, Vienna. Pippich, Karl, Vienna. Probst, Karl, Vienna. Ribarz, Rudolf, Vienna. Russ, Robert, Vienna.

 


 

Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Part 6 out of 16 APPENDIX 3.

REPORTS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

AUSTRIA.

Austrian commission - Mr. Adalbert R. Von Stibral, commissioner-general - Mr. Victor Pillwax, assistant commissioner; Mr. Dominik Fetz, secretary; Mr. Emil S. Fischer, commercial secretary.

Austrian commercial commission - Count Johann Harrach, president; Mr. Oskar Edler Von Hoefft, first vice-president; Mr. Franz Hiess, second vice-president; Mr. Charles M. Rosenthal, executive commissioner; Mr. Johann Peterka, commercial director; Mr. Adolph Taussig, commercial representative and assistant commissioner.

One of the most interesting and, as far as the interior scheme of decoration is concerned, the most artistic of the various foreign buildings in the World's Fair grounds, was that of the Austrian Empire.
It was most prominently situated at the western end of Administration avenue, immediately opposite the Administration Building of the World's Fair. The garden at the west end of the pavilion, though small, attracted a great deal of attention on account of its artistic beauty. Morning-glory and other vines had been planted around the building, and before the close of the fair had covered the walls and added much to the beauty of the structure.


LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION (VOL. VI - Page 2124)

FOREIGN BUILDINGS
Austria's National Pavilion

In designing a national pavilion for Austria the architect, Ludwig Baumann, of Vienna, departed from classic style which generally prevails at Expositions and adopted L/Art Nouveau, or new art, which would appear to be an appropriate recognition of the spirit of progress which the Fair is intended to exemplify. With much boldness the architect introduced a radical feature in designing the facade, which is made strikingly prominent by two large, square pylons on the corners of a highly decorative entrance flanked by sculptured female figures. Above the square entablature is an ornate frieze and above this, and partly covering it, is a wreath in basrelief within which are the Austrian Coat-of- Arms.

The pavilion is a T-shaped single story, with projecting facades fronting the avenue leading to the Exposition, but the corner spaces are enclosed and utilized for garden effects, in which pillars and statuary are features no less prominent than shrubbery, flowers and clambering vines.

The building contains thirteen beautifully decorated rooms, the first a reception hall of white maple, with wall treatment in white and yellow. Opposite the wide doorway is a splendid bust figure, in marble, of Emperor Franz Joseph. Opening off the reception hall, on the right, is a reading-room finished in maple, the floors and ceiling of which are inlaid parquetry, book-case of walnut, rugs and hangings of green, windows of art glass, and a beautiful onyx mantel over a comfortable fireplace. In this room is a marble plaquette by Weichl, with a relief figure of Empress Elizabeth. On the left of the hall is a drawing-room, in which the woodwork is of old oak, and the walls are hung with yellow satin brocade, which produces a gorgeous effect. The other rooms of the building are devoted to art and industrial exhibits, the center section containing models of bridges of which the one that , represents the bridge-weir at Nussdorf, near Vienna, is most interesting, for it is said to be the largest railroad bridge arch in the world. In an adjoining room is an instructive railroad exhibit made by the Ministry of Railways, sections, in miniature, being shown to illustrate great engineering feats in tunneling, escarpment work, and bridging in mountainous regions of Austria.

Arts and crafts are well represented in the pavilion exhibits, in which design and decoration of the rooms are of a distinctly artistic character. In these are shown paintings by Austrian artists, and especially productions by students in the Imperial Professional Art Schools, of art glass, tapestries, plaques, bronzes, marbles, panels and paintings. The Hagen Bund, a new society of artists, of Vienna, makes a display of paintings of the impressionist, or what they call the paintillist style, which is just now obtaining some popular recognition in Europe. The Society of Artists of Vienna also exhibits paintings of the classical Romantique style, and Polish artists of Kracow contribute four large panels, by Joseph Mehoeffer, all being ofreligious subjects, admirably treated.

The Austrian building in all respects, exterior and interior, is a magnificent contribution to the Exposition and well worthy of the great nation it represents. The Commissioner-General is Adelbert R. Von Stibral, with Victor Pillwax as assistant, and Dominik Fetz secretary.

 


The Austrian Government Building was of impressionistic architecture from Architekt Ludwig Baumann K.K. Oberbaurat

World Fair 1904 Austrian Government Pavilion - Architekt Ludwig Baumann K.K. Oberbaurat

 

PAVILION AND DIVISION * * * OF ROOMS, * * *

The Austrian Government Pavilion is 60 meters long and 35 meters wide and built in T form* From the transepts a middle aisle, 24 meters broad, extends to the building line* On either side of the aisle exits lead to the loggias and to the lawns* The pavilion is built of wood, and all the rooms have skylights. The style of architecture and decorations is modern with a classical toning. The exterior of the building is faced with a grayish yellow coloured gypsum shaded with gold, dark blue and light green. Two groups of figures — above life size — adorn the main porch of the central building. The Imperial coat of arms with a crown, surrounded by a large wreath, is raised above the centre of the pavilion, and to the right and left two sphinxes crown the gables.
The central building (garden-front) is finished off with two enormous square pylons with festoons and masks and decorated with all the coats of arms of the Austrian crown lands. Four stela bearing gilded busts are symmetrically placed along the front of the flower-beds in which monumental fountains have been erected. As can be seen from the annexed ground plan the interior of the pavilion is divided into fifteen rooms. To the left and right of the entrance hall which is adorned with a marble bust of the Emperor are the official apartments one of which is meant as a library and reading room, and the other as a reception room. Beyond the entrance hall is the Technical exhibition of the Ministry of Rail' ways, which likewise occupies the room on the left hand side for its exhibition "Sceneries and People of Austria".
The hall to the right is devoted to the department of the Ministry of Commerce for the Building of Waterways. At the back part of the middle aisle a large hall is devoted to the exhibits of the professional Art schools andtwo smaller ones show interiors executed by the Schools for Arts and Craftsin Vienna and Prague. The fine art exhibits of the Vienna Artists' Associationand of the Association called "Hagenbund" are on the right of the transepts;the pictures of the Bohemian and Polish artists on the opposite side.
Before briefly describing the characterstics of each section, according to the order of the rooms, a list must be given of the artists and artisans who have taken part in building and decorating the Austrian Government Pavilion. The plans of the whole building, the entrance hall, the two halls of the Ministry of Railways, and the hall containing the exhibition of Waterways have been designed by the chief architect Oberbaurat Ludwig Baumann, Joseph Meissner substituting him in the superintendence of the works.
(Contractor: J. Lecoeur).

The library has been designed by Leopold Bauer, architect, and the architect Joseph Plecnik has designed the reception room. The plastic on the outside of the building has been delivered by the sculptor Othmar Schimkowitz. The figurate frieze in the library is the work of the painter Josef En gelhardt. The painter Ferdinand An dri has executed the frescos on the facade, and Heinrich Tomec those in the department for water-ways. The Emperor's bust, which is made of Laaser marble, and which has been executed in the workshop of the Tyrol Marble and Porphyry Company (Fritz Zeller) Laas (Tyrol), is a copy of Prof. Strasser's model. The relief "Empress Elisabeth'' (Allegory) in the reception room is by the late Rudolf Weigl, sculptor. Sandor J dray has been entrusted with the Interior decorations and fittings. The carpets have been delivered by J. Ginzkey, Maffersdorf, and the ornamental locksmith^work by Alexander Nehr. The mosaic and artistic glass work have been delivered by MaxFreiherr v. Spaun and Johann Kappner, the fancy needlework by Carl Giani, the inlaid work (Intarsia) has been carried out by Michael Kehl, Josef Duchoslav, Franz Makienec. and the bronze works by Johann Hastach, Carl Kratky, J. Schubert and A. T. Lange.

TECHNICAL EXHIBITION OF THE * * MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS. * *

Austria is the home of European Alpine railways; the oldest, the Semmering railway, constructed 1848—1854, lies on the South Railway main line from Vienna to Trieste and is the first mountain railway conducted exclusively on the adhesive principle. Then followed the Brenner railway (1864—1867), the shortest railway communication between Central Germany via Tyrol to Italy (Verona), and the Arlberg railway (1880—1884) which opened up the route via Tyrol and Vorarlberg to the west (Switzerland and France).
An extensive system of alpine railways in course of construction (the Tauern, Karawanken and Wocheiner) will establish a new connection between the Interior of Austria and the port of Trieste, Four great panoramas in the Exhibition showing the above-mentioned alpine railways bear witness to Austria's prominence in this special field of railway technic. There are also plans of these lines, photographic views of buildings and of the tracks of the first three mentioned lines which are in full working order. The lines in course of construction are further illustrated by models of tunnels, scaffoldings, foundations of arched bridges ; and also an electric boring machine. A view of an arched bridge (with a span of 80 m) over the Isonzo (Littoral lands of Austria) with statical calculations and charts of the largest vaulted bridges ever built, and photographic views of the working in the Karawanken and Wocheiner Tunnels. Among the other exhibits in this department may be mentioned a model of the ground-work of the Austrian State

Railways for express trains, photos of the Imperial Court train and of the newest locomotives and passenger-carriages of the Austrian State Railways, as well as plans for iron bridges, ground-work, locomotives and passenger carriages of the State Railways. The work published for the Emperor's Jubilee "History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy" together with a number of other publications on the statistics, pedagogy and technics of railways are exhibited. Finally there is a chart of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on a scale 1 : 1,000,000.

SCENERIES AND PEOPLE * * * OF AUSTRIA, * * *

For a long time the Austrian Ministry of Railways has set itself the task of drawing the attention of the travelling public to the beauties of the scenery and ethnographical charms in which Austria abounds and thus inducing them to visit the country. To gain this end the Ministry has issued various publications, has opened inquiry offices and arranged exhibitions.
The exhibition "Sceneries and People of Austria" in the government pavilion at St. Louis has been arranged with the co-operation of several artists for the same object. The exhibit principally consists of a collection of views of the most beautiful parts of Austria, especially the Austrian Alps, and pictures of Austrian national life. Photographs taken by the best photographers as well as a number of artistic amateur photos representing the most important travelling districts in Austria, (99 in all) have been enlarged and reproduced as pigment prints or linographs. Two series of 10 photographic prints are also exhibited ; the one consisting of Austrian castles and strongholds, and the other of various favourite alpine resorts. Further a selection of alpine and travelling works in luxurious editions are shown.

The whole exhibition is finished off with a collection of 14 pictures of costumes and sport, arranged like a frieze, and illustrating special Austrian national scenes around the top of the wall.

Finally four bronze statuettes viz: "Chamois-hunter", "Alpine-tourist", "Ski-sportsman", "Alpine dairy-woman" have been placed in the room as decorations.

WATERWAYS.

The exhibition of models, plans and photographs of the existing and projected canals for deep draft ships arranged by the Department of the Ministry of Commerce for the Building of Waterways offers a general view of the whole network of the Austrian Waterways comprising those of the Danube, Moldau and Elbe Rivers, together with the system of canals. The largest Austrian river the Danube, which flows through the Country from West to East having a course of 348 km, is well adapted for tug traffic; the iron tug boats generally used having a drawing capacity of 650 t. The beautiful landscape of the river sides is shown by means of views of the Danube, contained in an album, whilst the plans, photographs and models exhibited by the ''Danube Regulation Commission" show the river courses, the harbours in Lower Austria and Vienna, as well as the constructions for regulating the water level in the Vienna-Danube Canal. The second great waterway is the Moldau and the Elbe running from South to North. On that part of the Elbe flowing between Aussig and the frontiers (a length of 38 km) the greatest amount of traffic is done and amounted in 1901 to about 4,000,000 t or 150,000,000 TKM.
In order to secure unhindered communication for tugs of 900 t drawing capacity on the Elbe between Aussig and Prague during the period when the Elbe is open, it was decided to construct canals along this stretch of river (Aussig—Prague 122 km long) with a minimal depth of 2*1 m thus providing a navigable route for large ships right into the heart of Bohemia. The work of construction carried out by the "Commission for Building Canals on the Moldau and Elbe Rivers in Bohemia" was commenced in 1897, and the models, plans and pictures exhibited by this Corporation show various stages of construction and the appearance of the works finished, whilst a map of Prague hanging on the wall shows the harbour and canal construction works, some finished and others projected in the precincts of the town.

The drawings and photos exhibited in the corner of the hall by the "Aussig-Teplitz Railway Co/' illustrate the position and traffic of the harbour of Aussig which is the most important inland harbour of Austria.
The network of navigable canals . for joining rivers together was provided for by Act of Parliament in 1901 and the "Administration for the Building of Waterways" so far furthered the preparation of the plans and designs for the construction of the different canals, that the work on some parts can be commenced this year. The charts in addition to giving a view of the position of the canals and rivers, with canals projected, show also longitudinal sections of the Danube-Oder Canal, which is the work to be taken in hand next, as well as some specimens of difficult engineering construction.

EXHIBITION OF THE IMPERIAL ROYAL * * PROFESSIONAL ART SCHOOLS. * *

The exhibition of the state professional Art schools, arranged by the Imperial Royal Ministry of public Instruction, Vienna, gives an idea of the work done by these institutions. These schools send out skilled workmen after giving them artistic and practical training in all branches of decorative art, fecundating practical work with artistic ideas and in this manner raising and furthering the standard of arts and crafts of the country. The exhibition is arranged in three divisions, the first two containing the exhibits of the schools for Arts and Crafts in Vienna and Prague (the largest of their kind in Austria), and the third the work of the other professional Art schools.

The decoration of the two interiors of the Schools for Arts and Crafts Vienna (Director Felizian Freiherr v. My r bach) and Prague (Director Georg Stibral), as well as all the objects exhibited in these divisions have been designed at the above institutions, and (as far as the schools possess workshops) executed by the pupils. A part of these objects has been entrusted to skilled craftsmen for execution. The organization of the "collective exhibition" of the other professional Art Schools has been entrusted to the Inspector of these schools, and Hofrat Arthur v. Sea la, Director of the Austrian Museum, Vienna.

The designs for the interior decorations have been prepared by the head of the Educational Supply Department at the above mentioned museum, and the details worked out by the department itself. The interior and the exhibits themselves have been executed in the workshops of 46 different professional Art schools with the co-operation of the pupils. The illustrated catalogue of the exhibits of the Imperial Royal professional Art schools contains full details of this exhibition and gives a general view of the organization of Technical Education in Austria.

FINE ARTS.

As may be easily understood it is a rather difficult task in a large country, even at home, to offer a comprehensive insight into the conditions of fine arts. Many works of art have been created for certain surroundings from which they cannot be removed without suffering in their artistic effect. Other works have passed into private hands and are scattered far and wide and for different reasons are not to be had for sending on a long journey. At the outset, therefore, the idea had to be given up of offering at the St. Louis Exhibition, to any extent, a complete picture of the Austrian Art of the present day, the more so as the diverse nationalities of Austria make the art of this country one of the most manifold and varied of the civilised world.
It has nevertheless been possible to get a considerable number of works together which give, at least, a fairly good idea of the abundance of Austrian art. Two groups of rooms have been placed at the disposal of Austrian fine arts ; one hall with annexe in the General Art Building and four halls in the Austrian Government Pavilion.

A part of the exhibits of the Vienna Artists' Association is to be found in the general Art Building, and the restr as well as those of the Artists' Association "Hagenbund" and the Bohemian and Polish Artists, are placed in the Austrian Government Pavilion.
The Vienna Artists' Association was founded in 1861, and has at present 356 "ordinary members", 104 "extraordinary members", and numerous supporting and corresponding members. The association is exhibiting 154 paintings, engravings, pen and ink sketches, and sculptures. The Association "Hagenbund", which was founded in 1901 devoting itself specially to cultivating Austrian Fine Art, has at present 49 members and is exhibiting 42 paintings, etchings, sculptures and a few publications.The exhibitions of the Bohemian artists (41 pictures) and of the Polish artists (50 paintings, plastics and graphics) have not been arranged according to any division of different groups of artists.In some rooms also art-handicraft work of the respective groups of artists can be seen.


Catalogues of the Austrian Works of Art can be obtained gratis in the Austrian Government Pavilion.

World Fair 1904 St. Louis - the Austrian Government Pavilion - Stereoview: Nr. 55 The Austrian Building

(Abb: Stereoview: Nr. 55 The Austrian Building)


 

LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION
DIVISION CXI.
Austrian Art Exhibition. (Page 2621- 2632)

The condition of art in Austria is somewhat anomalous, due to several causes, but principally to the secession movement of about 1897, which has resulted in a breaking up of old lines and a scattering into schools as various in styles as there are coteries to maintain them, although Austrian artists contend that there are in fact only two schools, "the old" and "the new." Vienna for a long while for at least a century enjoyed the distinction of being an art centre, in which there was both accord and cooperation, notwithstanding the introduction of electicism in 1858, which produced a variety of styles; but instead of dividing into parties, as has been the case in all other countries, Austrian artists while preserving their individuality worked in consonance under the mutual aim to elevate their profession purely for art's sake. This animating purpose was continued until impressionism gained entrance to this house of harmonious fellowship when, behold, dissension directly resulted and there was an alignment of artists into factions, as in Germany, which for fierceness may be compared to the rival houses of Montague and Capulet. There were leaders, of course, but envy has prevented acknowledgment, and to avoid offending the dignity of the various influences names are withheld.

 At the great international art exhibition at St. Louis Austrian artists were well represented, but it was not in connecting galleries. The Exposition director, in a magnanimous and conciliatory spirit, courteously explains that, "It was found possible only to install a portion of Austria's fine and representative exhibit in the galleries which had been assigned to her in the Art Palace, and it was impossible to increase the space allotted ; so a great part of the collection was exhibited in the National Pavilion, where, in several characteristically decorated galleries, it is shown to good advantage." All of which is quite true and fully explanatory, though Austrians themselves told me it was not because of dilatoriness that their art exhibit arrived after the space originally assigned had been occupied.

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Other distinguished Austrian and Hungarian artists represented at the Exposition were: F. E. Laszlo, J. de Thorma, H. Poll, Eduard Lebiedzki, Alois Delug, Adolph Kauffman, Max Svabinsky, Jan Priesler, Edler Von H. Kempf, Gustav H. Hessl, Victor Stauffer, and Gustav Jahn (friezes).

It was a circumstance very deeply regretted that not a single example of Michael Munkacsy's (born October, 1846), work, except one study, was exhibited, either in the Hungarian section or in the United States loan collection. This is particularly disappointing, as one of the prime purposes of the Art Exhibition was to present a showing of art and artists of the past ten years, and Munkacsy did not die until May, 1900. As the greatest, not only of Hungarian artists but as a representative of the world masters, it is interesting to know that the real name of Munkacsy was Lieb, and that he was originally a carpenter. That he ever became an artist is due to the influence of a strolling portrait-painter who, by chance observing some of his building plans, discovered his latent talent and persuaded him to take lessons in art. His progress was so amazing that a year later he was painting portraits for a living, to which profession he soon added genre productions, one of his first, "A Country Idyl," was purchased by the Art Union of Pesth. Without following his wonderful career, during which he produced several score of now famous paintings, it may be said that he reached the climax of his power in 1882, when he gave to the world his "Christ Before Pilate," which is said to be the greatest picture of a century, and which after being exhibited in all cities of the country was sold to Mr. John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, for $120.000,--  After producing this almost incomparable, and intensely dramatic as well as tragic composition, Munkacsy painted two other imperishable creations, viz., "Christ on Calvary" and "The Last Moments of Mozart." The latter was sold to the late General Russell A. Alger, of Detroit, for $50,000,--. It is very sad to conclude this brief notice of one of the world's greatest masters with a statement of the fact that during the last three years he suffered from mental aberration and his life closed in gloom in a sanitarium.

 


 

The Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission by Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission AUSTRIA.

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