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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1897)
TT 10 THE COURIER. HOFMANN'S TUDIO. MIMIMMIIIHMMIHMIIMIIIIIHIM?lllIMIMIIIIIMlHMIIIMIIMMM RUDGE & MORRIS CO. Cobkfm,om)f.t in Gekmany. Anattir.tV ti:i3io is alwajs interest tig, even to the diUilaulc. So after ruary pleadings from American ad mirers in Dicdcn. Herr Hofaiann con sented to open bis studio from twelve until two every Sunday. The villa in which he lives is small and old fash ioned. It is surrounded by trees and somewbnt dismal looking. A neat little maid answers the bell and shows the visitor ui ciairs into two rather small rooms where the great artist is surrounded by adoring tourists. Herr Hofmann is a well preserved man with kind eyes and a gentle manner. His hair and heard are both grey. He has never married, so a sister keeps houEO for him. He speaksalmcst no English, which obliges ms to think up two or threo of my newly learned German sentences Many Americans, of whom he will as sure j'ou he is very fond, buy his pho tographs at some store and ask him to affix his autograph. This he does in a most gracious manner. The ttudio itself is ju6t a little disap pointing. All the fascinating sketches have been carefully put away and half finished canvasses are turned to the wall. Theic were no bread crumbs or mica or sft coatings of duEt and the lay ligure looked fit for a promanade. It is these half revealed thoughts from the artist's mind that give an admirer an insight intoan artist's character. Perhaps Hofmann gives the room over to the neat little maid early Sunday morning and ehe arranges it according to her idea of propriety. Among the pictures on easels about the studio is a bead of Christ. The first study for that wonderful master piece, "Christ in the Temple."' which admirers rank next to the Sistine Madonna among the religious paint ings of the world. Every one knows this picture from copies if he has never seen the original in the Dresden art gallery. The Christ child is o! a Jewish tjje with dark, wonderful eyes and a radiance that Bhines from the whole facs. Another painting is 'Christ and the Rich Young Man," which the -artist his always kept in his own possession. It is the face of the Saviour that is marvelous in its spirituality and th9 other figures form a setting as it were. This gift of portraying the spirit shining thiough the face without the convenliaaal balo and other signs of divinity is the power of HofroanV work. There is scarcely a subject in the New Testament that he has not il lustrated with wonderful success. On the other hacd in his studio is a large painting of "Leda and the Swan' which is interesting although good enough in color snd drawing. Hofmann must at some time have thought it his duty to try a conven tional subject but it is to be hoped he was soon convinced of his unfitneas for that field. As you leave the roam jou notice a little box near the door under which is written "Remember the Poor." All visitors drop a mark or ro in the boxj before leaving. It shows the heart of) the man who can portray so perfectly thsfaierf Christ. 1118-1120 N. Lincoln, Neb. This week we received a car of library and. combination bookcases. In these . we can show you over forty different styles in mahogany and quartered an tique oak finish. These goods are the latest the market affords and in point of finish and style their equal can not be shewn by any house west of Chicago. lwi JIMS!!! fir- I p &l5fLi J !!3si5!x3r" z The above handsome combination case in ma- hofany or quartered antique oak we will sell at. . 5 But we have them ranging" in price from $8 to $40. 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