The art of painting in the nineteenth century (1908)
Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927 · Boston and London, Ginn and company · leaf 96
g only theheads and treating everything else as unimpor-tant accessories. In his younger years his colorrivaled that of the great Venetians; later, how-ever, he painted only in browns. His women stillretained gayer colors, but they are not his mas-terpieces, although some of them, and especiallyhis… … Franz von Lenbach Portrait of Mommsen GERMAN PAINTING 55 impersonal justice. In his pictures one does notsee Bismarck or Moltke or Liszt, but LenbachsBismarck and Lenbachs Moltke and LenbachsLiszt. His point of view, however, is alwaysinteresting, so that his pictures are gainers ratherthan losers.…
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