"Die Siegerin"

" Die Siegerin "

Civic Virtue, Stone Age male trampling on beautiful womanhood in City Hall Park, Manhattan, received the feminist coup de grace when Ernst Hegenbarth, President of the Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, sent to the United States for exhibition his Triumph, wherein a nude seated woman enthrones herself above the lowly male. The model was an Austrian baroness, favorite of the late Emperor Franz Josef. Die Siegerin will probably be presented to America as an acknowledgment of Austria's gratitude for American relief work, by J. C. Berendson, wealthy Maecenas of San Francisco, and other friends of Austrian art. The statue is on exhibition at the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, and forms part of a representative collection of contemporary Austrian art to be shown at the Washington (D. C.) Art Center in September.

Austrian artists, on the verge of, starvation, organized the Kunstlerhaus and received generous donations from several Austro-Americans. Herr Hegenbarth is favorably known on the Continent for works in Stockholm, the Louvre and elsewhere. Triumph is not a new work, but won the Prix de Paris at the Salon of 1907. It has been extravagantly praised by both European and American critics.