DOI Heft:
Nr. 153 (November 1909)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19868#0132
Studio-Talk
the Holy Land, and lived so long in Italy that his
eyes are still full of the colours of the sunny south.
Hjortzberg is the only Swedish artist of any im-
portance who is influenced by the English pre-
Raphaelitic school. His panels for a dining-room
with motives from an old Italian romance are very
pre-Raphaelitic, and so are many of his religious
paintings. The small oil- and water-colour sketches
for his mural paintings in the Stockholm church of
Sta. Clara show him as the best painter of religious
subjects in Sweden. (The Studio reproduced in
Vol. xxxm., page 58, his painting, The Holy Maiden
on her Way to /he Temple?) In this exhibition one
also found many of his beautiful drawings for
illustrations of books, and several landscapes from
Italy and the Orient. _
The first place among the pure landscapists at
this exhibition was undoubtedly taken by Gottfrid
Kallstenius, who sent a very representative collec-
tion of his best work. His forest interiors, with
deep green fir trees standing out against a dark
blue sky, are both true to nature and decora-
tive ; his coast scenes, with brown rocks rising
directly out of the sea, lighted by the rays of the
setting sun, are grand and impressive. One of
the best was sold to the National Museum in
Stockholm. This time Kallstenius surprised the
world with a ■ big fantastic painting called The
Dead—a young girl just on the point of stepping
into Paradise. It is the first figure picture he has
ever exhibited, and a remarkably good specimen
of its kind, very rare in Sweden. Other landscape
painters of good qualities who exhibited were
Vilhelm liehm, Axel Kulle, jun., and Arthur Bian-
chini, One saw with pleasure the philosophising
birds of Ernst Norlind, the only important animal-
painter present. Helmer Mas-Olles' portrait of
Zorn, a peasant boy from Ualarne (Dalecarlia)
like himself, was striking as a likeness, but far
from flattering. _
Among the sculptors one looked in vain for all
the known ones, but found some good pieces by
young unknown men. Carl Eagerberg chooses
his subjects in the world of sport, and one quite
enjoyed his statuette of boys and girls skating and
skiing. Herman Neujd's busts of young girls and
figures of children were beautiful, but sometimes
too sweet. T. L.
SAN FRANCISCO. — Mrs. Mary Curtis
Richardson is known in America chiefly
as a painter of portraits, and the delightful
paintings of children, of which the Amber
Necklace (p. 77) is an example. The element of
feeling, the expression of sympathetic insight, in
combination with a firmness of composition of
the Holy Land, and lived so long in Italy that his
eyes are still full of the colours of the sunny south.
Hjortzberg is the only Swedish artist of any im-
portance who is influenced by the English pre-
Raphaelitic school. His panels for a dining-room
with motives from an old Italian romance are very
pre-Raphaelitic, and so are many of his religious
paintings. The small oil- and water-colour sketches
for his mural paintings in the Stockholm church of
Sta. Clara show him as the best painter of religious
subjects in Sweden. (The Studio reproduced in
Vol. xxxm., page 58, his painting, The Holy Maiden
on her Way to /he Temple?) In this exhibition one
also found many of his beautiful drawings for
illustrations of books, and several landscapes from
Italy and the Orient. _
The first place among the pure landscapists at
this exhibition was undoubtedly taken by Gottfrid
Kallstenius, who sent a very representative collec-
tion of his best work. His forest interiors, with
deep green fir trees standing out against a dark
blue sky, are both true to nature and decora-
tive ; his coast scenes, with brown rocks rising
directly out of the sea, lighted by the rays of the
setting sun, are grand and impressive. One of
the best was sold to the National Museum in
Stockholm. This time Kallstenius surprised the
world with a ■ big fantastic painting called The
Dead—a young girl just on the point of stepping
into Paradise. It is the first figure picture he has
ever exhibited, and a remarkably good specimen
of its kind, very rare in Sweden. Other landscape
painters of good qualities who exhibited were
Vilhelm liehm, Axel Kulle, jun., and Arthur Bian-
chini, One saw with pleasure the philosophising
birds of Ernst Norlind, the only important animal-
painter present. Helmer Mas-Olles' portrait of
Zorn, a peasant boy from Ualarne (Dalecarlia)
like himself, was striking as a likeness, but far
from flattering. _
Among the sculptors one looked in vain for all
the known ones, but found some good pieces by
young unknown men. Carl Eagerberg chooses
his subjects in the world of sport, and one quite
enjoyed his statuette of boys and girls skating and
skiing. Herman Neujd's busts of young girls and
figures of children were beautiful, but sometimes
too sweet. T. L.
SAN FRANCISCO. — Mrs. Mary Curtis
Richardson is known in America chiefly
as a painter of portraits, and the delightful
paintings of children, of which the Amber
Necklace (p. 77) is an example. The element of
feeling, the expression of sympathetic insight, in
combination with a firmness of composition of