DOI Heft:
No. 392 (November 1925)
DOI Artikel:Bröchner, Georg: Three etchings by Nicolai Hammer
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0308
THREE ETCHINGS BY NICOLAI no direct appeal. But his work (Hammer
HAMMER. BY GEORG BROCH- is a Dane) possesses what for decades
AjT-'-p . „ „ was and still to no small extent is one of
the lundamental and most cherished
THERE are people, very superior people characteristics of Danish art, sincerityf
no doubt, to whom a singeror a musician which springs from and rests on a sympa-
must be an acknowledged and for choice thetic, not to say tender, study of the
world-famed and much paragraphed vir- subject. Hammer senses with much
tuoso in order to be considered worth susceptibility the mood, the atmosphere
listening to. a 0 a a of the scene he has chosen to depict,
In the same way there are artists, and he conveys by a convincing and
in diverse spheres, and there are writers attractive but unobtrusive technique the
on and collectors of their work, who set weathered aspect of ancient masonry,
such intense store on craftsmanship— the dilapidated sculptured ornamenta-
super-craftsmanship—that they at times tion, the roofs of old-world houses over
seem to forget that craftsmanship, after all, whose tiles centuries have passed and left
is the means of attaining the end and not their mark—such motifs Hammer loves
the end, in the consummation of which and he translates them to his plate in his
other and perhaps even more vital factors own way, without too much meticulous
operate. a a a a a detail, without striving to accentuate
To such highbrows, if one may so call effects by an undue gradation of light and
them, Hammer's endeavours may make shade. a a a 0 a
"HOTEL DE VILLE, BRUGES'
ETCHING BY NICOLAI HAMMER
302
HAMMER. BY GEORG BROCH- is a Dane) possesses what for decades
AjT-'-p . „ „ was and still to no small extent is one of
the lundamental and most cherished
THERE are people, very superior people characteristics of Danish art, sincerityf
no doubt, to whom a singeror a musician which springs from and rests on a sympa-
must be an acknowledged and for choice thetic, not to say tender, study of the
world-famed and much paragraphed vir- subject. Hammer senses with much
tuoso in order to be considered worth susceptibility the mood, the atmosphere
listening to. a 0 a a of the scene he has chosen to depict,
In the same way there are artists, and he conveys by a convincing and
in diverse spheres, and there are writers attractive but unobtrusive technique the
on and collectors of their work, who set weathered aspect of ancient masonry,
such intense store on craftsmanship— the dilapidated sculptured ornamenta-
super-craftsmanship—that they at times tion, the roofs of old-world houses over
seem to forget that craftsmanship, after all, whose tiles centuries have passed and left
is the means of attaining the end and not their mark—such motifs Hammer loves
the end, in the consummation of which and he translates them to his plate in his
other and perhaps even more vital factors own way, without too much meticulous
operate. a a a a a detail, without striving to accentuate
To such highbrows, if one may so call effects by an undue gradation of light and
them, Hammer's endeavours may make shade. a a a 0 a
"HOTEL DE VILLE, BRUGES'
ETCHING BY NICOLAI HAMMER
302