DOI Heft:
No. 103 (September, 1905)
DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: The Craft Schools of Austria
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26960#0279
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at Tokio, received his training in this delightful
Bohemian spa. It speaks well for the liberality
of the Ministerium fur Cultus und Unterricht that
Norwegians, Germans, Swedes, Russians, Bulgarians,
IRONWORK FOR BY A PUPIL OF THE
A FOUNTAIN KONIGGRATZ SCHOOL
and others, besides Austrian subjects, have been
allowed to study there. And it speaks well too
for the fame of the school; for even Austrians,
after they have finished their training, carry their
art to other lands ; there being no clause which
binds them, even for a single day, to Austria.
The Teplitz Fachschule was awarded a gold medal,
at Paris in 1900, and at St. Louis in 1904. Though
figure and portrait drawing and anatomy do not
form part of the school curriculum, these subjects
are not neglected, some of the results being
excellent.
At Steinschonau, a mountain village in Bohemia,
everything relating to the manufacture of porce-
lain and glass is taught, hand in hand with
drawing and designing and the cutting out of
" forms " to train the eye. Here, as at Teplitz,
all methods of glazing are tried and new ones
invented; for experimenting is a particular feature
of each school, and when such experiments prove
successful they are given out to the world. In olden
times the engraver could rarely draw accurately,
the elaborateness of the engraving covering this
defect; now exact drawing is an absolute necessity;
the engraver produces simpler and nobler work, and
his work ceases to be perfunctory. Here he may
may learn etching, enamelling, gold inlaying, in
fact everything connected with his trade, besides
getting a training in art. At this school they are
seeking to revive the old method of engraving with
a diamond, hitherto a lost art to Bohemia; for,
unlike English and Belgian glass, Bohemian is
too hard for this purpose. It is round about
Steinschonau that the cheap horrors for the English
and American markets are made ; for, in spite of
modern art and art education, the cheap and
dreadful vases are as popular as ever.
CABINET BY A PUPIL OF THE HALLEIN SCHOOL
210
at Tokio, received his training in this delightful
Bohemian spa. It speaks well for the liberality
of the Ministerium fur Cultus und Unterricht that
Norwegians, Germans, Swedes, Russians, Bulgarians,
IRONWORK FOR BY A PUPIL OF THE
A FOUNTAIN KONIGGRATZ SCHOOL
and others, besides Austrian subjects, have been
allowed to study there. And it speaks well too
for the fame of the school; for even Austrians,
after they have finished their training, carry their
art to other lands ; there being no clause which
binds them, even for a single day, to Austria.
The Teplitz Fachschule was awarded a gold medal,
at Paris in 1900, and at St. Louis in 1904. Though
figure and portrait drawing and anatomy do not
form part of the school curriculum, these subjects
are not neglected, some of the results being
excellent.
At Steinschonau, a mountain village in Bohemia,
everything relating to the manufacture of porce-
lain and glass is taught, hand in hand with
drawing and designing and the cutting out of
" forms " to train the eye. Here, as at Teplitz,
all methods of glazing are tried and new ones
invented; for experimenting is a particular feature
of each school, and when such experiments prove
successful they are given out to the world. In olden
times the engraver could rarely draw accurately,
the elaborateness of the engraving covering this
defect; now exact drawing is an absolute necessity;
the engraver produces simpler and nobler work, and
his work ceases to be perfunctory. Here he may
may learn etching, enamelling, gold inlaying, in
fact everything connected with his trade, besides
getting a training in art. At this school they are
seeking to revive the old method of engraving with
a diamond, hitherto a lost art to Bohemia; for,
unlike English and Belgian glass, Bohemian is
too hard for this purpose. It is round about
Steinschonau that the cheap horrors for the English
and American markets are made ; for, in spite of
modern art and art education, the cheap and
dreadful vases are as popular as ever.
CABINET BY A PUPIL OF THE HALLEIN SCHOOL
210