DOI Heft:
No. 64 (June, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22773#0320
Studio-Talk
No wonder, then, that so many prominent well-
wishers of the movement have become frightened
at such manifestations of the “ modern ” spirit.
The Museum contains a rich store of old pat-
terns, and its directors are endeavouring to restore
the contact between the past and the present by
drawing attention to the “ Empire ” and “ Alt-
Wien” (“ Biedermeier” style), as kinds of models
which should be further developed, side by side
with the much-prized English forms.
The applied art school studios are doing good
work, the masters emphasising the importance .of
sound construction, and developing individuality
in their pupils. The latter, with the natural
independence of youth, are disinclined to make
any concessions to the “ old,” and, in their genuine
enthusiasm for the “ modern,” are apt to sacrifice
everything to novelty ; so that sometimes a certain
abstract jejuneness marks their productions. Be-
tween these two groups of artists — those who
incline to the Museum, and those emerging from
the Art-Handicraft School—we find the older and
the new independent ateliers, which, according to
taste, and partly also according to the nature of
the commissions to be executed, incline now to
one, now to the other, of the prevailing tendencies.
These conditions, easily explained in a warm-
blooded people highly susceptible to prevailing
movements, have introduced a kind of topsyturvy-
dom in the applied-art life of Vienna. Good, how-
ever, will spring therefrom, for, in the first place,
a contest always contributes to elucidation ; and,
secondly, if the present pedantic and fossilised art
notions, engendered by prejudice, are once well
shaken up, the public will become more accessible
to liberal ideas.
These remarks are not
intended to depreciate
the applied art of Vienna.
The exhibition now being
organised in London and
the exhibition at Turin
will testify to the high
standard of ability pre-
vailing among our work-
ers here. Our illustrations
show recently executed
examples of work by
various designers.
T. G.
FIREPLACE
298
BY PROF. HAMMF.L
BU DA P E S T.—
[For the follow-
ing notes on
General Arthur
Gorgey we are indebted
to Dr. Theodore Duka,
F.R.C.S., late Surgeon-
Lieut.-Colonel of the Ben-
gal army, a Member of
the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, and Honved
Captain on General
Gorgey’s staff during the
stormy period of 1848
and 1849.—Editor, The
Studio.]
Readers of The Studio
are enabled herewith to
study the portrait sketch,
No wonder, then, that so many prominent well-
wishers of the movement have become frightened
at such manifestations of the “ modern ” spirit.
The Museum contains a rich store of old pat-
terns, and its directors are endeavouring to restore
the contact between the past and the present by
drawing attention to the “ Empire ” and “ Alt-
Wien” (“ Biedermeier” style), as kinds of models
which should be further developed, side by side
with the much-prized English forms.
The applied art school studios are doing good
work, the masters emphasising the importance .of
sound construction, and developing individuality
in their pupils. The latter, with the natural
independence of youth, are disinclined to make
any concessions to the “ old,” and, in their genuine
enthusiasm for the “ modern,” are apt to sacrifice
everything to novelty ; so that sometimes a certain
abstract jejuneness marks their productions. Be-
tween these two groups of artists — those who
incline to the Museum, and those emerging from
the Art-Handicraft School—we find the older and
the new independent ateliers, which, according to
taste, and partly also according to the nature of
the commissions to be executed, incline now to
one, now to the other, of the prevailing tendencies.
These conditions, easily explained in a warm-
blooded people highly susceptible to prevailing
movements, have introduced a kind of topsyturvy-
dom in the applied-art life of Vienna. Good, how-
ever, will spring therefrom, for, in the first place,
a contest always contributes to elucidation ; and,
secondly, if the present pedantic and fossilised art
notions, engendered by prejudice, are once well
shaken up, the public will become more accessible
to liberal ideas.
These remarks are not
intended to depreciate
the applied art of Vienna.
The exhibition now being
organised in London and
the exhibition at Turin
will testify to the high
standard of ability pre-
vailing among our work-
ers here. Our illustrations
show recently executed
examples of work by
various designers.
T. G.
FIREPLACE
298
BY PROF. HAMMF.L
BU DA P E S T.—
[For the follow-
ing notes on
General Arthur
Gorgey we are indebted
to Dr. Theodore Duka,
F.R.C.S., late Surgeon-
Lieut.-Colonel of the Ben-
gal army, a Member of
the Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, and Honved
Captain on General
Gorgey’s staff during the
stormy period of 1848
and 1849.—Editor, The
Studio.]
Readers of The Studio
are enabled herewith to
study the portrait sketch,