DOI issue:
Nr. 163 (September, 1910)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0321
Studio-Talk
feelings without descending to mere sentimentality.
Her pictures have found a place in the Imperial
Gallery in Vienna and other public galleries and
private collections. She has been a constant ex-
hibitor for many years at the Kiinstlerhaus. The
two pictures here reproduced count among her
recent work, the Dutch picture being one of last
year's products. She is sixty-three years old and
proud of her years. _
Etching is becoming more and more popular
among Austrian artists, owing largely, no doubt, to
the influence of Prof. Unger, who numbers among
his former pupils many of the leading Austrian
etchers. One of them, Fritz Pontini, is a regular
exhibitor at the Kiinstlerhaus, where his work has
been well received by both public and critics.
His prints are finding their way into important
collections, public and private, here and else-
where on the continent. Pontini is Italian in
name only; he comes from romantic Egerland in
Bohemia, but was educated in Vienna at the Imperial
Academy. He possesses that power of rapid and
accurate observation which is so important a factor
in etching. The two etchings here reproduced are
good examples of his methods. The view of The
Sarcathal, seen from Arco, shows his power of
rendering broad vistas without undue superfluity of
strokes. That melancholy aspect which the valley
always seems to wear—and which has inspired so
many artists and poets—is well expressed. There is
in fact here, as in his other work, that subtle feeling
which the Germans aptly call "Stimmung." In
the etching of Evening, in which we are shown a
bit of Egerland (a practically unexplored field to
artists at large), the broad masses of light and
shade have been well translated by the artist's
needle. A. S. L.
BRUSSELS.—The great event of the
present year in Brussels is of course
the International and Universal Exhibi-
tion, located on a large site close to
the picturesque Bois de la Cambre. Applied or
decorative art is in one or other shape and in
varying degrees a feature of the different national
"the sarcathal" (etching) my fritz pontini
244
feelings without descending to mere sentimentality.
Her pictures have found a place in the Imperial
Gallery in Vienna and other public galleries and
private collections. She has been a constant ex-
hibitor for many years at the Kiinstlerhaus. The
two pictures here reproduced count among her
recent work, the Dutch picture being one of last
year's products. She is sixty-three years old and
proud of her years. _
Etching is becoming more and more popular
among Austrian artists, owing largely, no doubt, to
the influence of Prof. Unger, who numbers among
his former pupils many of the leading Austrian
etchers. One of them, Fritz Pontini, is a regular
exhibitor at the Kiinstlerhaus, where his work has
been well received by both public and critics.
His prints are finding their way into important
collections, public and private, here and else-
where on the continent. Pontini is Italian in
name only; he comes from romantic Egerland in
Bohemia, but was educated in Vienna at the Imperial
Academy. He possesses that power of rapid and
accurate observation which is so important a factor
in etching. The two etchings here reproduced are
good examples of his methods. The view of The
Sarcathal, seen from Arco, shows his power of
rendering broad vistas without undue superfluity of
strokes. That melancholy aspect which the valley
always seems to wear—and which has inspired so
many artists and poets—is well expressed. There is
in fact here, as in his other work, that subtle feeling
which the Germans aptly call "Stimmung." In
the etching of Evening, in which we are shown a
bit of Egerland (a practically unexplored field to
artists at large), the broad masses of light and
shade have been well translated by the artist's
needle. A. S. L.
BRUSSELS.—The great event of the
present year in Brussels is of course
the International and Universal Exhibi-
tion, located on a large site close to
the picturesque Bois de la Cambre. Applied or
decorative art is in one or other shape and in
varying degrees a feature of the different national
"the sarcathal" (etching) my fritz pontini
244