DOI issue:
No. 133 (March, 1908)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28254#0098
Studio-Talk
and as regards the novel and effective decoration
of the rooms.
The “ Deutsche (formerly ‘ Dresdener ’) Werk-
statten fiir Handwerkskunst ” belong to the most
successful enterprises connected with art which we
have been able to boast of during recent years. A
few years ago they made a great hit with their new
toys. Imitation is said to be the most telling
kind of flattery, and surely nothing has ever been
imitated more, from all sides, than these toys.
A separate factory is now solely devoted to the
production of them. The small animals given in
the illustration on page 76 were designed by
Ernst Liebermann and Karl Soffel. Herr R.
Kuohl, whose movable geese and ducklings were
illustrated in The Studio about two years back,
has designed more toys on similar lines for the
Deutsche Werkstatten. H. W. S.
VIENNA.—Among the young artists who
are now devoting themselves to producing
coloured woodcuts, Walter Klemm and
Carl Thiemann merit a leading place.
Some examples of their work have already been re-
produced in The Studio, and both are represented
in the chief public and private collections in
Germany and Austria, and in some English collec-
tions. The further examples accompanying this
notice will but give another proof of their artistic
feeling, thorough workmanship and general capa-
bility. Fully alive to the limitations of this
medium, both are eager to give that which is best
in them, and both are full of the enthusiasm of
youth, and give evidences of this in their work.
Herr Klemm in his choice of subjects is attracted
by farm and field. The feathered denizens of the
farmyard have provided him with subjects for many
pleasing prints, while others record his sympathetic
observation of farming operations, such as plough-
ing, sheep tending and so on. It is in his power
of expressing so much by the simple means at his
command that his chief merit lies.
Carl Thiemann too is a sincere student of nature,
and, as becomes a pupil of Franz Thieles, shows
a marked preference for landscape. In his work
also is shown that confidence and sympathy which
denote the true artist. Trees are his speciality, and
if he is enamoured of one kind more than another,
it would seem to be the graceful birch, whose
and as regards the novel and effective decoration
of the rooms.
The “ Deutsche (formerly ‘ Dresdener ’) Werk-
statten fiir Handwerkskunst ” belong to the most
successful enterprises connected with art which we
have been able to boast of during recent years. A
few years ago they made a great hit with their new
toys. Imitation is said to be the most telling
kind of flattery, and surely nothing has ever been
imitated more, from all sides, than these toys.
A separate factory is now solely devoted to the
production of them. The small animals given in
the illustration on page 76 were designed by
Ernst Liebermann and Karl Soffel. Herr R.
Kuohl, whose movable geese and ducklings were
illustrated in The Studio about two years back,
has designed more toys on similar lines for the
Deutsche Werkstatten. H. W. S.
VIENNA.—Among the young artists who
are now devoting themselves to producing
coloured woodcuts, Walter Klemm and
Carl Thiemann merit a leading place.
Some examples of their work have already been re-
produced in The Studio, and both are represented
in the chief public and private collections in
Germany and Austria, and in some English collec-
tions. The further examples accompanying this
notice will but give another proof of their artistic
feeling, thorough workmanship and general capa-
bility. Fully alive to the limitations of this
medium, both are eager to give that which is best
in them, and both are full of the enthusiasm of
youth, and give evidences of this in their work.
Herr Klemm in his choice of subjects is attracted
by farm and field. The feathered denizens of the
farmyard have provided him with subjects for many
pleasing prints, while others record his sympathetic
observation of farming operations, such as plough-
ing, sheep tending and so on. It is in his power
of expressing so much by the simple means at his
command that his chief merit lies.
Carl Thiemann too is a sincere student of nature,
and, as becomes a pupil of Franz Thieles, shows
a marked preference for landscape. In his work
also is shown that confidence and sympathy which
denote the true artist. Trees are his speciality, and
if he is enamoured of one kind more than another,
it would seem to be the graceful birch, whose