Arts: 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...

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