DOI Heft:
Nr. 157 (March 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0089
Studio- Talk
Windhager contributed some outdoor scenes, Im to be an artist of very sensitive touch and percep-
Mai, with its singularly harmonious treatment, being tion. His two pictures, Boulevard by Night and
one of the best of them. Joh. Nepomuk Geller, Sommertag, shown at this exhibition, of the Genos-
in addition to other excellent examples of his art, senschaft, gave proof of his high merit as an artist.
contributed one called Diirnstein, which particu- -
larly signalised his intimate observation of nature. The Hagenbund exhibitions are always a source
Josef Jungwirth's studies of flowers are effective of pleasure, for there is an air of freshness about
and rich in coloration. Otto Herschel's work them, and moreover the quality of the work
is suffused with poetic sentiment — a trait one sees there always shows steady development,
which is particularly discernible in his Bridge On the occasion of the recent winter exhibition it
of Sighs. Other contributors who must not be more than exceeded expectations. There was some
passed over were Angela Adler, Fritz Pontini, excellent work shown by Ferdinand Ludwig Graf,
Friedrich Beck, Konstantin Damianos, Karl Gsur, who has always something new to say. His bits of
Eduard Ameseder, and Othmar Ruzicka, whose the Tyrol across the Brenner Pass and on the pass
studies of Moravian girls are remarkable for their itself, at Gossensass and other old places, are very
fidelity to nature in costume and in form. There fine both in colouring and in drawing. His
were three lady artists whose work should be methods are his own, and he has his own ideas of
mentioned: Frau Olga Florian-Wiesinger, who coloration, the result justifying his daring experi-
sent some fine studies of flower-gardens ; Minnie ments. , Walter Hampel showed some fine old
Gause, a study of an old town capitally drawn, interiors reminiscent of the days of our grand-
and Emmie von Leuzer Hirschfeld whose un- mothers. His art is rich in poetic fancy, and it
doubted talent could be
seen to advantage in her
study Kirchgang in der
Bretaene.
Some very good sculp-
ture was shown by Franz
Zelezny, Melanie von
Horschetzky, Friedrich
Gornik, Emanuel Pendl
and Otto Hofner, and
plaquettes and medals by
Hans Schafer and Karl
Maria Schwerdtner.
Graphic art was repre-
sented by Ferdinand Gold,
who contributed some
fine etchings in his well-
known manner, Anna
Mik, Rudolf Hanke and
Julius Johannes Fischer.
The work of one artist
has been purposely left to
the last, because death
has snatched him away
from the midst of us at
the early age of thirty-six.
It is of Rudolf Quittner
I speak. The reproduc-
tions of his pictures in
The Studio from time
to time have shown him "Moravian peasant girl" by othmar ruzicka
64
Windhager contributed some outdoor scenes, Im to be an artist of very sensitive touch and percep-
Mai, with its singularly harmonious treatment, being tion. His two pictures, Boulevard by Night and
one of the best of them. Joh. Nepomuk Geller, Sommertag, shown at this exhibition, of the Genos-
in addition to other excellent examples of his art, senschaft, gave proof of his high merit as an artist.
contributed one called Diirnstein, which particu- -
larly signalised his intimate observation of nature. The Hagenbund exhibitions are always a source
Josef Jungwirth's studies of flowers are effective of pleasure, for there is an air of freshness about
and rich in coloration. Otto Herschel's work them, and moreover the quality of the work
is suffused with poetic sentiment — a trait one sees there always shows steady development,
which is particularly discernible in his Bridge On the occasion of the recent winter exhibition it
of Sighs. Other contributors who must not be more than exceeded expectations. There was some
passed over were Angela Adler, Fritz Pontini, excellent work shown by Ferdinand Ludwig Graf,
Friedrich Beck, Konstantin Damianos, Karl Gsur, who has always something new to say. His bits of
Eduard Ameseder, and Othmar Ruzicka, whose the Tyrol across the Brenner Pass and on the pass
studies of Moravian girls are remarkable for their itself, at Gossensass and other old places, are very
fidelity to nature in costume and in form. There fine both in colouring and in drawing. His
were three lady artists whose work should be methods are his own, and he has his own ideas of
mentioned: Frau Olga Florian-Wiesinger, who coloration, the result justifying his daring experi-
sent some fine studies of flower-gardens ; Minnie ments. , Walter Hampel showed some fine old
Gause, a study of an old town capitally drawn, interiors reminiscent of the days of our grand-
and Emmie von Leuzer Hirschfeld whose un- mothers. His art is rich in poetic fancy, and it
doubted talent could be
seen to advantage in her
study Kirchgang in der
Bretaene.
Some very good sculp-
ture was shown by Franz
Zelezny, Melanie von
Horschetzky, Friedrich
Gornik, Emanuel Pendl
and Otto Hofner, and
plaquettes and medals by
Hans Schafer and Karl
Maria Schwerdtner.
Graphic art was repre-
sented by Ferdinand Gold,
who contributed some
fine etchings in his well-
known manner, Anna
Mik, Rudolf Hanke and
Julius Johannes Fischer.
The work of one artist
has been purposely left to
the last, because death
has snatched him away
from the midst of us at
the early age of thirty-six.
It is of Rudolf Quittner
I speak. The reproduc-
tions of his pictures in
The Studio from time
to time have shown him "Moravian peasant girl" by othmar ruzicka
64