Studio: international art (55.1912)

Arts and Crafts at the Austrian Museum, Vienna

power, and has used gentle pressure by shutting
out all objects which do not come up to a certain
standard from the point of view of art and work-
manship. Whereas in former times everybody who
wished to do so was allowed to exhibit within the
museum precincts, a policy which often resulted in
a sort of show for commercial
wares of all kinds, now nothing
is to be seen but real works of
art. Some high-minded manu-
facturers have come to help,
recognising that it does not cost
more to have beautiful objects,
and that in many cases they

Hoffmann, Kolo Moser, and
other modern artists were ap-
pointed professors at the
Kunstgewerbeschule, and Baron
Myrbach its director. For a
time the exhibitions held at the
museum were of great worth ;
then, owing to matters which

do not concern us here, they again fell off in artistic value
—copying again became the order of the day; and
finally the exhibitions of modern applied art ceased to
be. On the retirement of Hofrat von Scala, Hofrat
Dr. Eduard Leisching was appointed to succeed him as
director, and so another era has now begun for the arts
and crafts of Austria.

Given the right man at the wheel, an institution like
the Imperial Museum for Art and Industry can do very
much to further the development of the art industries.
The director has full play and can practically do as he
likes. Hofrat Leisching has taken advantage of this

THREE CUPS WITH STANDS TO BE
OFFERED BY THE WINTER SPORT CLUB
AS PRIZES IN THE MOTOR-BOAT
RACES TO BE HELD AT ABBAZIA
THIS YEAR. DESIGNED BY PROF.
OTTO PRUTSCHER, EXECUTED BY THE
WIENER WERKSTATTE, VIENNA

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