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indeed, and it is certainly to be hoped, that tho Institution permitted 
the expenditure of so muck time only upon tlie specimens intended 
for the Exhibition, although this would again show that tlie aim of 
the Exhibition had been misapprehended ; for one of the main levers 
of progress is to be found in the comparison of the various methods 
of exeeution now in use. The crayon-studies of heads from 
nature (executed on white paper) gave evidence of a more pro- 
found and more individual conception than tlie studies in plaster. 
The academical drawings in crayon and charcoal likewise mani- 
fested throroughness of study ; but it must be said that names 
were to be found among them to whom the master’s diploma in 
art was awarded long ago. The oil-studies looked as though 
they were all the work of one hand ; whether this be an advantage 
or a disadvantage of the school, we cannot at present investi- 
gate. 
The efforts of instruction in drawing in all the German Art- 
Schools are principally devoted to the thorough comprehension of 
form, and by far too little stress is laid upon picturesque illusion, 
i.e., the variety in the shading, which, after all, is of importance. 
The drawings from casts, with their glaring lights and shades, 
mostly look as if they had been made from bronze models ; a more 
graceful, easier exeeution is greatly to be desired. It is curious 
that red ckalk, which is so telling, is everywhere rejected as a 
drawing material. 
The ever-growing collections of the Art-Industrial Museum at 
Nuremberg, which again received important accessions from the 
Vienna World’s Fair, will undoubtedly by degrees bring indus 
trial education into closer communion with the tendencies of our 
time ; and this can only be of advantage to the Industries of the 
.Nuremberg district. 
Art-industry in Munich, the same as in Nuremberg, likewise 
bears a specifically local character. Here, in consequence of a 
richer development of art in general, peculiarly pleasing motives 
of a romantic tendency have been intermixed with the German ele- 
ments, and have been introduced into all branches of art-industry 
with peculiar skill. Here, where Schwind, the “ father of the 
lairy tale ” in art, called forth from the interior of mountains, 
from rocky castles, and the darkness of the forest, his magic figures