International studio (32.1907)

L. Jungnickel's Coloured Stencil Drawings

COLOURED STENCIL DRAWING

BY LUDWIG JUNGNICKEL

the course of it reference was made to the progress
accomplished in the graphic and decorative arts
under the new regime initiated by Baron Myrbach.
To him and his able coadjutor, Prof. Roller,
is largely due that vigorous development in the
various branches of graphic art which has placed
Vienna on an equality with other great art centres
in Europe—if indeed she has not outpaced them

in certain directions. Be that as it
may, there have gone forth from
these schools, and are still going
forth, a generation of young men
and women who are filled with a
genuine feeling for art and by their
subsequent achievements have added
greatly to the prestige of the schools.
One such is Ludwig Jungnickel, a
young artist whose undoubted origi-
nality has manifested itself especially
in stencil compositions of diverse
kinds, and his work in this direction
is so far out of the common as to
justify notice here.

Jungnickel, who is a native of
Munich, was attracted to Vienna by
the fameol the Kunstgewerbeschulen
and the reputation which Prof. Roller
especially had acquired as a teacher.
At Munich he studied drawing at the
evening classes held at the Gewerbe-
schule (Artizans’ School), contrary
to the wishes of his relatives and
friends, but being bent on becoming
an artist by profession he joined the School of Arts
and Crafts there. He soon gave this up, however,
and, notwithstanding financial and other obstacles,
made his way to Rome, where he got a living by
copying pictures, and was so enabled to save suffi-
cient to migrate to Vienna. Joining the Arts and
Crafts Schools he found in Prof. Roller a teacher
after his own mind. It was one of Prof. Roller’s

“THE TENNIS PLAYERS” (COLOURED STENCIL DRAWING)

Br LUDWIG JUNGNICKEL

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