DOI Heft:
No. 117 (November, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Frantz, Henri: Some recent etchings by Albert Baertsoen
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28250#0054
Recent Etchings by Albert Baertsoen
the. canals. At a time when really too many artists
are abusing the use of half-tints and chiaroscuro
one hastens to greet a frank colourist such as
Baertsoen, who is not afraid to spread out and
■display in fullest flow the loveliest tones of his
palette.
Baertsoen’s painting formed the subject, four or
five years ago, of a detailed study in The Studio.
Its readers were then enabled to follow the course
of the artist’s work through his favourite landscapes
of Flanders and in Zeeland, with all its delightful
jnotifs. So there is no need to repeat what was so
admirably said in these very pages; moreover the
artist has produced but few works of recent years.
In truth, he is not a man to force his productive-
ness ; he is not to be counted among those who
think it necessary to paint their Salon picture
every year. Baertsoen’s view of art is assuredly
higher and nobler than that.
Besides painting excellent canvases like those
which were exhibited at the Societe Nationale this
year, Albert Baertsoen has devoted himself with
ardour to the delightful art of etching, which, by
the way, he practised in his earlier days. A set
of recent plates by him was exhibited a few months
since in the Salons de l’Art Decoratif, in the Rue
Laffitte, Paris, and the artist has given me permission
to select certain of his chief works for The Studio.
These hardy etchings, with their bold contrasts of
light and shade, and their forcible griffonnages,
closely recall the pictorial works of Baertsoen.
They have the same qualities of feeling and poetry,
the same taste for the picturesque as these, and
they are in every way worthy of the talented
artist who in many an unforgettable work has
sung the beauty and the melancholy of the
dead cities of Flanders.
Henri Frantz.
“maisons des pauvres”
FROM THE ORIGINAL ETCHING BY ALBERT BAERTSOEN
the. canals. At a time when really too many artists
are abusing the use of half-tints and chiaroscuro
one hastens to greet a frank colourist such as
Baertsoen, who is not afraid to spread out and
■display in fullest flow the loveliest tones of his
palette.
Baertsoen’s painting formed the subject, four or
five years ago, of a detailed study in The Studio.
Its readers were then enabled to follow the course
of the artist’s work through his favourite landscapes
of Flanders and in Zeeland, with all its delightful
jnotifs. So there is no need to repeat what was so
admirably said in these very pages; moreover the
artist has produced but few works of recent years.
In truth, he is not a man to force his productive-
ness ; he is not to be counted among those who
think it necessary to paint their Salon picture
every year. Baertsoen’s view of art is assuredly
higher and nobler than that.
Besides painting excellent canvases like those
which were exhibited at the Societe Nationale this
year, Albert Baertsoen has devoted himself with
ardour to the delightful art of etching, which, by
the way, he practised in his earlier days. A set
of recent plates by him was exhibited a few months
since in the Salons de l’Art Decoratif, in the Rue
Laffitte, Paris, and the artist has given me permission
to select certain of his chief works for The Studio.
These hardy etchings, with their bold contrasts of
light and shade, and their forcible griffonnages,
closely recall the pictorial works of Baertsoen.
They have the same qualities of feeling and poetry,
the same taste for the picturesque as these, and
they are in every way worthy of the talented
artist who in many an unforgettable work has
sung the beauty and the melancholy of the
dead cities of Flanders.
Henri Frantz.
“maisons des pauvres”
FROM THE ORIGINAL ETCHING BY ALBERT BAERTSOEN