CARL

MARK (1858– )  , American artist, was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the 14th of February 1858, the son of an engraver . He was a pupil of Henry Vianden in Milwaukee, of Schauss in Weimar, of Gussow in Berlin, and subsequently of Otto Seitz, Gabriel and Max Lindenschmitt in Munich . His first work, " Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew," received a medal in Munich . One of his pictures, " Episode of 1813," is in the Royal Hanover Gallery, and his " Germany in 18o6 " received a gold medal in Munich and is in the Royal Academy of Koenigsberg . A large canvas " The Flagellants," now in the Milwaukee public library, received a gold medal at the Munich Exposition in 1889 . Another canvas, " Summer Afternoon," in the Phoebe Hearst collection, received a gold medal in Berlin, in 1892 . Marr became a professor in the Munich Academy in 1893, and in 1895 a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts . MARRADI; GIOVANNI (1852– ), Italian poet, was born at Leghorn, and educated at Pisa and Florence . At the latter place he started with others a short-lived review, the Nuovi Goliardi, which made some literary sensation . He became a teacher at various colleges, and eventually an educational inspector in Massa Carrara . He was much influenced by Carducci, and became known not only as a critic but as a charming descriptive poet, his principal volumes of verse being Canzone moderne (187o), Fantasie marnie (1881), Canzoni e fantasie (1853), Ricordi lirici (1884), Poesie (1887), Nuovi canti (1891) and Ballate moderne (1895) .