DOI Heft:
No. 120 (February, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28250#0373
Studio-Talk
PLAQUETTE : lc THREE GENERATIONS
a memento of an auspicious day, but a real work
of art. The Archduke Rainer Medal was struck to
commemorate a rifle meeting in Maehrisch-Ostrau,
Moravia. Five hundred were presented to the
best marksmen. The Archduke is “protector” of
the regiment, and both he and the Emperor,
his near relation, were present on this occa-
sion. The Archduke is represented in uni-
form and wearing the insignia of the Golden
Fleece, which is only borne by a few mem-
bers of the Imperial family. The statuette
is a veritable Viennese type, such as are still
to be seen every year at the annual city ball
in the Rathhaus, when the dancers selected
to dance before the Emperor are dressed in
the costume of 1848, when he ascended
the throne. This figure has been executed
in bronze.
the celebrated actor, opened the exhibi-
tion byreciting dignified verses to labour;
Dr. Leisching, Director of the Gewerbe
Museum in Briinn, Moravia, lectured on
the life and work of Meunier before
an audience composed of artists and
others; and Josef Heu, the well-known
young sculptor, delivered a discourse
at the gallery on sculpture in general
and Meunier in particular before an
audience composed of workmen. Every
evening crowds of working people could
be seen studying there, and nothing
was more interesting than to see these
workers wondering at and sympathising
with the man who has brought life into his work,
and life as they themselves have experienced it.
Parties of young people of both sexes were taken
to the exhibition by their teachers, who gave them
an account of the sculptor’s life and work. So
.
mm-
BY HANS SCHAEFER
The Belgian sculptor, Constantin Meunier,
has always attracted the art-loving Viennese
from the time he was first brought before
them by the Secession. It was therefore a
foregone conclusion that the Collective Ex-
hibition of his work, which has been going
the round of the chief cities of Europe,
should meet with a warm welcome here. So
much has been said and written about his
works, and this so recently in The Studio,
that there is little left to write of this collec-
tion. But there is something to say regarding
the arrangement of this special exhibition.
Elsewhere the arrangements and decorations
have corresponded to those in the Brussels
Exhibition last year, but the architect of the
Hagenbund, Josef Urban, gave us an entirely
new and, at the same time, agreeable arrange-
ment. The interest aroused in this particular
exhibition has been very great: Josef Kainz,
STATUETTE
BY HANS SCHAEFER
359
PLAQUETTE : lc THREE GENERATIONS
a memento of an auspicious day, but a real work
of art. The Archduke Rainer Medal was struck to
commemorate a rifle meeting in Maehrisch-Ostrau,
Moravia. Five hundred were presented to the
best marksmen. The Archduke is “protector” of
the regiment, and both he and the Emperor,
his near relation, were present on this occa-
sion. The Archduke is represented in uni-
form and wearing the insignia of the Golden
Fleece, which is only borne by a few mem-
bers of the Imperial family. The statuette
is a veritable Viennese type, such as are still
to be seen every year at the annual city ball
in the Rathhaus, when the dancers selected
to dance before the Emperor are dressed in
the costume of 1848, when he ascended
the throne. This figure has been executed
in bronze.
the celebrated actor, opened the exhibi-
tion byreciting dignified verses to labour;
Dr. Leisching, Director of the Gewerbe
Museum in Briinn, Moravia, lectured on
the life and work of Meunier before
an audience composed of artists and
others; and Josef Heu, the well-known
young sculptor, delivered a discourse
at the gallery on sculpture in general
and Meunier in particular before an
audience composed of workmen. Every
evening crowds of working people could
be seen studying there, and nothing
was more interesting than to see these
workers wondering at and sympathising
with the man who has brought life into his work,
and life as they themselves have experienced it.
Parties of young people of both sexes were taken
to the exhibition by their teachers, who gave them
an account of the sculptor’s life and work. So
.
mm-
BY HANS SCHAEFER
The Belgian sculptor, Constantin Meunier,
has always attracted the art-loving Viennese
from the time he was first brought before
them by the Secession. It was therefore a
foregone conclusion that the Collective Ex-
hibition of his work, which has been going
the round of the chief cities of Europe,
should meet with a warm welcome here. So
much has been said and written about his
works, and this so recently in The Studio,
that there is little left to write of this collec-
tion. But there is something to say regarding
the arrangement of this special exhibition.
Elsewhere the arrangements and decorations
have corresponded to those in the Brussels
Exhibition last year, but the architect of the
Hagenbund, Josef Urban, gave us an entirely
new and, at the same time, agreeable arrange-
ment. The interest aroused in this particular
exhibition has been very great: Josef Kainz,
STATUETTE
BY HANS SCHAEFER
359