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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e Portrait of a Man by Peter von Cornelius that hangs near it inthe gallery. Otto EedmAjStn, the painter of the Bringing-home the Bride was born at Leipzig in1834 and after studying his art first at home and then in Dresden and Munich, fixed hisresidence at Diisseldorf, Avhere he has since continued to live and to paint. He has been asuccessful caterer to the public taste for anecdotes, setting his little tales of high-life in afashionable Rococo frame-work, polished marquetry floor, panelled walls in white and gold,lambrequined windows, mirrors, and porcelain vases, and people to match; all convention- ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 243 ality, formality, and high-caste German exclusiveness, and touch-me-nottery. The presentpicture is a good example of the artists manner when he is at his best: there is moredramatic feeling, and clear character-drawing in this scene than his pictures call for ingeneral. The son of this high-born and dignified lady has chosen a bride for himself a little
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bringing home the bride. FROM THE PICTURE BY OTTO ERDMANN. outside the charmed circle in which his family moves. There have been hard thoughts, if nothard words, in consequence, and it is only now that, after much letter-writing and embassiesto-and-fro, the mother has consented to receive her daughter-in-law, and see with her owneyes what she looks like. She sits in her gilded and brocaded/««ie?«7, dressed in her stateli-est, satin and silk and lace, and does her best, with a wintry smile and a dubious hand, towelcome the intruder, this bird from the outer world who has dared to come and sit on the 244 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. branclies of lier family tree; but for her sons sake and for the sake of peace she will giveher such welcome as she can. Judging by the consternation of the family, we miist thinkthis a terrible old lady, in spite of her calm exterior and general air of harmless respecta-bility. Yet, all these people seem to be expecting or fearing an explosion; the young

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