DOI Heft:
No. 58 (December, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22772#0175
Studio- Talk
PORTRAIT BUST BY GUSTAVE GURSCHNER
and this, no doubt, he owes to the complete
technical training which he has gone through.
Everything he conceives is carried out from begin-
ning to end in the workshops behind his atelier.
Here, under his own guidance, his designs are
made living things ; every stage in their develop-
ment he watches over as a father a dearly-loved
child, but he never risks bringing them to
perfection by that over-indulgence of fantasy
which is the fault of so many craftsmen.
Mr. Gurschner was the first to use those large
mother-of-pearl shells for electric lamps, and many
of his designs and productions are full of grace
and beauty.
Among the busts the most recent are those of
Gurschner’s pupil, Mario Segantini, son of the cele-
brated artist, and Frau Dormann-Littitz (Countess
Bubn.te), a well-known actress. Both of them are
characteristic of the artist’s method of designing
and modelling, and are both executed in bronze.
He has just completed a large group, Love and
Envy. Mr. Gurschner has also designed and manu-
factured many articles of jewellery — brooches,
clasps, etc.; and he also designs articles of
furniture, which are afterwards “ built ” in his own
ateliers under his personal supervision,
Mr. Gurschner has exhibited in the Munich
Secession, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Salon du
Champs de Mars (Paris), Monte Carlo, Vienna
Secession, and other exhibitions, and his work
has won universal praise, his ideas being full
of poetical feeling, while he never stoops to mere
trickery.
A. S. L.
PARIS.—Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died
recently at the age of 35. By his
exceptional gifts, by the rich originality
of his vision and of his technique, by
the keenness (sometimes amounting to cruelty) of
BRONZE DOOR KNOCKER BY GUSTAVE GURSCHNER
140
PORTRAIT BUST BY GUSTAVE GURSCHNER
and this, no doubt, he owes to the complete
technical training which he has gone through.
Everything he conceives is carried out from begin-
ning to end in the workshops behind his atelier.
Here, under his own guidance, his designs are
made living things ; every stage in their develop-
ment he watches over as a father a dearly-loved
child, but he never risks bringing them to
perfection by that over-indulgence of fantasy
which is the fault of so many craftsmen.
Mr. Gurschner was the first to use those large
mother-of-pearl shells for electric lamps, and many
of his designs and productions are full of grace
and beauty.
Among the busts the most recent are those of
Gurschner’s pupil, Mario Segantini, son of the cele-
brated artist, and Frau Dormann-Littitz (Countess
Bubn.te), a well-known actress. Both of them are
characteristic of the artist’s method of designing
and modelling, and are both executed in bronze.
He has just completed a large group, Love and
Envy. Mr. Gurschner has also designed and manu-
factured many articles of jewellery — brooches,
clasps, etc.; and he also designs articles of
furniture, which are afterwards “ built ” in his own
ateliers under his personal supervision,
Mr. Gurschner has exhibited in the Munich
Secession, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Salon du
Champs de Mars (Paris), Monte Carlo, Vienna
Secession, and other exhibitions, and his work
has won universal praise, his ideas being full
of poetical feeling, while he never stoops to mere
trickery.
A. S. L.
PARIS.—Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died
recently at the age of 35. By his
exceptional gifts, by the rich originality
of his vision and of his technique, by
the keenness (sometimes amounting to cruelty) of
BRONZE DOOR KNOCKER BY GUSTAVE GURSCHNER
140