| Ref No | WIA FC/1893/2/28 |
| Title | Hertz, Mary to Warburg, Aby 15/10/1893 |
| Writer | Hertz, Mary |
| Place1 | Hamburg |
| Recipient | Warburg, Aby |
| Date | 15/10/1893 |
| DateNote | FC, 'Mary Hertz' |
| Format | manuscript |
| Contents | is pleased that he liked the catalogues from Munich; she liked the little painting of the Sphinx very much; the colours are shining, the garments red; she also likes 'Sturmglocke'; is pleased that he also likes Scheurenberg's Madonna; she does not understand the painting ['Symbolmalerei'] by [Jan] Toorop; his paintings fill a whole room, she felt as if she were in a lunatic asylum; explains pointillisme, a technique which shows how the air flickers; it does not look too badly if one stands far enough; the most beautiful landscapes are not in the catalogues; she particularly enjoyed a landscape in the snow; she also likes the English room, the paintings by [George Frederick] Watts; the poster 'Die Sünde' by Franz Stuck was phenomenal, also Arnold Böcklin's 'Cleopatra' and Walter Firle's 'Dein Wille geschehe' |
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