DOI issue:
No. 92 (October, 1904)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26962#0454
Studio- Talk
GARDEN AT THE DUSSELDORF EXHIBITION
Italy, in France, and in Germany he has painted
many masterpieces; but he gives them all to the
poor to be sold for their benefit, whilst he contents
himself with a few coppers in his pocket. When
these are exhausted he will even work as a porter to
earn enough to go on with, and then resume his
happy study of Nature, gloating over some fine
evening-effect on a lonely shore without a care for
the morrow. In a word, his one love is Nature,
while his faith is that of a
Buddhist.
and can never be mis-
taken for that of any other
painter. He seems able
to carry with him to his
studio the very spirit ot
Nature with which he has
so closely communed in
his long intercourse with
her, so that his pictures
are most faithful reflec-
tions of the scenes they
represent. No other
master has ever ex-
ercised any influence over
him, no school has fet-
tered his freedom; he
has formed his style from
Nature alone, and its mo-
difications are the result
of the different aspects
under which he has
studied his one source of
inspiration. His work is always essentially pic-
turesque; he eschews the literal, and treats every-
thing in a broad, massive manner. His colouring
is powerful, and there is great force of expression in
everything from his hand. He is no mere slavish
copyist even of Nature, but transmutes all he
touches into a poem which is instinct with his
own personality. He makes many sketches and
studies in the open air before he sets to work
DESIGNED BY P. BEHRENS
Baron Laszld Mednyan-
szky is far too original and
remarkable a character for
the term interesting to
be applied to him. His
extraordinary individuality
is reflected in his work,
and the pictures painted at
the age of fifty-two are as
full of vigour and verve,
yet as naive and uncon-
ventional, as were those he
produced when he was
only twenty. Although he
has, of course, gained in
manual facility, in mastery
of technique and experi-
ence, everything from his
hand bears the unmistak-
able impress of his genius,
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GARDEN AT THE DUSSELDORF EXHIBITION DESIGNED BY P. BEHRENS
GARDEN AT THE DUSSELDORF EXHIBITION
Italy, in France, and in Germany he has painted
many masterpieces; but he gives them all to the
poor to be sold for their benefit, whilst he contents
himself with a few coppers in his pocket. When
these are exhausted he will even work as a porter to
earn enough to go on with, and then resume his
happy study of Nature, gloating over some fine
evening-effect on a lonely shore without a care for
the morrow. In a word, his one love is Nature,
while his faith is that of a
Buddhist.
and can never be mis-
taken for that of any other
painter. He seems able
to carry with him to his
studio the very spirit ot
Nature with which he has
so closely communed in
his long intercourse with
her, so that his pictures
are most faithful reflec-
tions of the scenes they
represent. No other
master has ever ex-
ercised any influence over
him, no school has fet-
tered his freedom; he
has formed his style from
Nature alone, and its mo-
difications are the result
of the different aspects
under which he has
studied his one source of
inspiration. His work is always essentially pic-
turesque; he eschews the literal, and treats every-
thing in a broad, massive manner. His colouring
is powerful, and there is great force of expression in
everything from his hand. He is no mere slavish
copyist even of Nature, but transmutes all he
touches into a poem which is instinct with his
own personality. He makes many sketches and
studies in the open air before he sets to work
DESIGNED BY P. BEHRENS
Baron Laszld Mednyan-
szky is far too original and
remarkable a character for
the term interesting to
be applied to him. His
extraordinary individuality
is reflected in his work,
and the pictures painted at
the age of fifty-two are as
full of vigour and verve,
yet as naive and uncon-
ventional, as were those he
produced when he was
only twenty. Although he
has, of course, gained in
manual facility, in mastery
of technique and experi-
ence, everything from his
hand bears the unmistak-
able impress of his genius,
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GARDEN AT THE DUSSELDORF EXHIBITION DESIGNED BY P. BEHRENS