DOI Heft:
No. 58 (December, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22772#0173
Studio-Talk
Simultaneously, we hailed the first appearance
of an undertaking similar to the Fitzroy Society and
the Art for Schools Association. If Germany has
not been first upon this occasion she has at least
profited by experience and distanced her rivals. The
pictures of the Fitzroy Society are excellent enough
in many ways, but they are photo-mechanical
(photo-lithographical) reproductions, and the un-
naturalistic character of the work makes it difficult
for the general public to come into touch with it.
Some of the publications of the Art for Schools
Associations, such as Strang’s The Ploughman, are
simply above praise. But what have collotypes
after unimportant portraits of Queen Elizabeth or
Cromwell, with long biographical explanations, to do
with art for schools ? They
are simply an aid to lessons
in history.
lished. They are the work of the best artists of
our day, and the two examples here repro-
duced were chosen from among a number of
equally good ones.
Large editions are printed and ridiculously cheap
prices asked—from three to six shillings for pictures
a yard and a quarter by a yard in size. It is to be
sincerely hoped that they will soon find their way
into every school and into a great number of homes.
They will serve better in the good cause of art-
education than thousands of pamphlets and weeks
of lecturing. The forming of our taste is not
done consciously. Our taste is no more than our
knowledge ; and if, especially during childhood,
The German enterprise
is launched by two Leipsic
publishing firms, B. G.
Teubner and R. Voigtla-
ender, who have secured
the advice of competent
authorities, and they are
carrying out a very excel-
lent programme. The pic-
tures are to be executed
on a scale suitable for
hanging in large school-
rooms. They will all be
lithographs in colours, with
no reproductive work of
any description, and the
artist who designs the sub-
ject will draw, prepare and
supervise the printing of
each stone.
Thus we get in the end
purely original work, true
art — something to be
looked at and enjoyed
aesthetically, not something
to be used as a vehicle
for conveying instructive
information.
More than a hundred
pictures are in course of
preparation ; about twenty
have already been pub-
T38
“a suabian town1'
FROM A CHROMO-LITHOGRAPH BY ADOLF LUNTZ
Simultaneously, we hailed the first appearance
of an undertaking similar to the Fitzroy Society and
the Art for Schools Association. If Germany has
not been first upon this occasion she has at least
profited by experience and distanced her rivals. The
pictures of the Fitzroy Society are excellent enough
in many ways, but they are photo-mechanical
(photo-lithographical) reproductions, and the un-
naturalistic character of the work makes it difficult
for the general public to come into touch with it.
Some of the publications of the Art for Schools
Associations, such as Strang’s The Ploughman, are
simply above praise. But what have collotypes
after unimportant portraits of Queen Elizabeth or
Cromwell, with long biographical explanations, to do
with art for schools ? They
are simply an aid to lessons
in history.
lished. They are the work of the best artists of
our day, and the two examples here repro-
duced were chosen from among a number of
equally good ones.
Large editions are printed and ridiculously cheap
prices asked—from three to six shillings for pictures
a yard and a quarter by a yard in size. It is to be
sincerely hoped that they will soon find their way
into every school and into a great number of homes.
They will serve better in the good cause of art-
education than thousands of pamphlets and weeks
of lecturing. The forming of our taste is not
done consciously. Our taste is no more than our
knowledge ; and if, especially during childhood,
The German enterprise
is launched by two Leipsic
publishing firms, B. G.
Teubner and R. Voigtla-
ender, who have secured
the advice of competent
authorities, and they are
carrying out a very excel-
lent programme. The pic-
tures are to be executed
on a scale suitable for
hanging in large school-
rooms. They will all be
lithographs in colours, with
no reproductive work of
any description, and the
artist who designs the sub-
ject will draw, prepare and
supervise the printing of
each stone.
Thus we get in the end
purely original work, true
art — something to be
looked at and enjoyed
aesthetically, not something
to be used as a vehicle
for conveying instructive
information.
More than a hundred
pictures are in course of
preparation ; about twenty
have already been pub-
T38
“a suabian town1'
FROM A CHROMO-LITHOGRAPH BY ADOLF LUNTZ