In Lenbach's Studio

For years Lenbaeh worked in an unpietantious back building on the Bita where he has now erected the magnifificsnt house on which his brother, well known in his special branch, was architect, states the Century. The studio is dlvided into thrce spacious rooms and occupies the wiiole of the second story. The eeilings are richly decorated with medailions and bas-reliefs in dark woods picked out with gold; the. walls, a!so dark in tone, are huug with Valuablo tapestries and copies of wellknowa pietures made during his Wanderjahie, with here and there authenticatil work of an old master. An uncsasing and discrlminating collector, Lenbach has filled his house and studio with objects of esthetic and historie interest. There are marble statues and friozes of ancient Greece and Rome, busta and bas-reliefs dating from the renaissance, cruciflxes and reliquarles bre.it!: ;;-c the mystical afflatus of the middie asM, priceless and historie brocada, rugs and hangings from the east - everything, from the beautiful shell grotto adjoining the studio, with lts elabórate mosaics, to a rare bit of brocade from some suppressed monastery, giving evidence of the unerrlug taste of the master. ThQ whole building is illurmnated by a complete system of electrlc llshts, enabling him to paint, as he often does, until far mto the night. He is in consequence a late riser, brcakfating at 10, and rarely going to work before 11 o'clock.