DOI Heft:
No. 120 (February, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: The imperial arts and crafts school, Vienna
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28250#0346
The Imperial Arts and Crafts Schools, Vienna
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DESIGN FOR DAMASK TABLECLOTH BY E. FROMEL
(PROF, beyer’s CLASS)
graphic art both in black-and-white and in colours,by
Fraulein von Uchatius, Herr Moritz Jung, Fraulein
Iviesewetter, Walter Dittrich, and Bruno Seuchter;
charming illustrated children’s rhymes by Delavilla,
Janke and others. Even paper-cutting or stencilling
has been raised to a fine art by Franz von Ziillow
and others. Here we see how far graphic art has
been brought in a very short time. Professor
Czeschka is as original and as inspiring as his
colleagues on the modern side, and this
means much, for graphic art in Austria
has already taken a prominent place ; it
is an art which will have to be reckoned
with, owing to the fact that new methods
of reproduction are constantly being
discovered by professors and students.
There seems no end to them, and it is
interesting to watch the different stages
of development which graphic art in
Vienna is continually undergoing, prov-
ing that Professor Czeschka is a worthy
successor to those who showed the way.
Ornamental writing under Professor
Larisch is also receiving its due atten-
tion. The methods of teaching are the
Professor’s own, for, like the others here
mentioned, he is bound by no rules, and
yet by a golden one which leads to suc-
cess. He can rouse interest and he can
himself do what he teaches others to do.
This new art is also making itself felt
everywhere, and in its way has also
caused a revolution. In his work,
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Unterricht in Ornamentaler Schrift,
the Professor has clearly explained
his methods, so that it is possible
for all, to a certain extent, to learn
something for themselves.
A further step was taken a year ago
to modernise plastic art by appointing
Herr Metzner, the eminent sculptor,
as teacher in this department. The
results were so favourable that he has
now been made a Professor. Singu-
larly enough, it is chiefly ladies who
attend his class — Frauleine Dengg,
Seidl, Kasimir, Lehmann, Nora von
Exner, and only one man, Ernst
Willigs. All these show remarkable
talent. Prof. Metzner lays great value
on the study of the human figure in
movement, and most of the studies
shown demonstrate the influence of
his teaching in this respect. There
is, perhaps, too great a tendency to copy the
master’s peculiar art of forming plastic figures;
but it is to be hoped that when his students aie
fully fledged they will attempt also to seek ways
and means for themselves, and so arrive at some-
thing as he too has done. There is much to learn
and much possibility of greater development,
but it requires real talent, time, and, above all,
patience.
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DESIGN FOR DAMASK TABLECLOTH BY E. FROMEL
(PROF, beyer’s CLASS)
graphic art both in black-and-white and in colours,by
Fraulein von Uchatius, Herr Moritz Jung, Fraulein
Iviesewetter, Walter Dittrich, and Bruno Seuchter;
charming illustrated children’s rhymes by Delavilla,
Janke and others. Even paper-cutting or stencilling
has been raised to a fine art by Franz von Ziillow
and others. Here we see how far graphic art has
been brought in a very short time. Professor
Czeschka is as original and as inspiring as his
colleagues on the modern side, and this
means much, for graphic art in Austria
has already taken a prominent place ; it
is an art which will have to be reckoned
with, owing to the fact that new methods
of reproduction are constantly being
discovered by professors and students.
There seems no end to them, and it is
interesting to watch the different stages
of development which graphic art in
Vienna is continually undergoing, prov-
ing that Professor Czeschka is a worthy
successor to those who showed the way.
Ornamental writing under Professor
Larisch is also receiving its due atten-
tion. The methods of teaching are the
Professor’s own, for, like the others here
mentioned, he is bound by no rules, and
yet by a golden one which leads to suc-
cess. He can rouse interest and he can
himself do what he teaches others to do.
This new art is also making itself felt
everywhere, and in its way has also
caused a revolution. In his work,
332
Unterricht in Ornamentaler Schrift,
the Professor has clearly explained
his methods, so that it is possible
for all, to a certain extent, to learn
something for themselves.
A further step was taken a year ago
to modernise plastic art by appointing
Herr Metzner, the eminent sculptor,
as teacher in this department. The
results were so favourable that he has
now been made a Professor. Singu-
larly enough, it is chiefly ladies who
attend his class — Frauleine Dengg,
Seidl, Kasimir, Lehmann, Nora von
Exner, and only one man, Ernst
Willigs. All these show remarkable
talent. Prof. Metzner lays great value
on the study of the human figure in
movement, and most of the studies
shown demonstrate the influence of
his teaching in this respect. There
is, perhaps, too great a tendency to copy the
master’s peculiar art of forming plastic figures;
but it is to be hoped that when his students aie
fully fledged they will attempt also to seek ways
and means for themselves, and so arrive at some-
thing as he too has done. There is much to learn
and much possibility of greater development,
but it requires real talent, time, and, above all,
patience.