Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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over, and Her-mann, of whom Ave are now to speak. After completing a course of study at the University ofMunich, he took up painting as a profession, and entered the studio of Piloty. After leavingthat master, he made his Wandering-year in Italy, and after his return, settled down inMunich, where he has since continued to live and to paint. His pictures are distinguishedfor the technical skill they display and for the finish of the details, which, nevertheless, is notallowed to usurp an undue place, but is always kept in proper subordination to the subject.Some of his historical pictures are Louis XI. and his Barber, Olivier le Dain, at Peronne; The Childrens Confession; Hansel and Grethel with the Witch,—from one of Grimmsstories— The Last Moments of Mozart, and Sebastian Bach with Frederick the Great andTurmfalken. Our picture shows the artist in one of his more playful moods; he has imag-ined a scene which is a good many thousand years older than the far-away mediaeval times in
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THE TOWER-WARDEN. FROM THE PICTURE BY HERMANN KAULBACH. ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 2ig whicli he has chosen to place it, and which will probably renew itself an innumerable numberof times before the sun shall have kept faith with the scientific men, and turned into an ice-berg. The Warden keeping his traditional post of watchman on the old tower that hasoutlived the stormy scenes of its youth, has amused himself as he best could through thelong sunny hours of the morning; now trying an arrow upon the birds that circle round theturret, now watching what life of man or beast might chance be stirring in the village belowhim, or what boats might put out upon the distant lake. And time has hung heavier on hishands for knowing that it must be noon before Gretchen will climb the tower-stair to bringhim his bowl of porridge, and to ask his help in stringing the clothes-line, and hanging out thewash! But she has come at last, and now the birds may circle the tower at their will, orstream out

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