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Nr. 163 (September, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0324
Studio-Talk
Britain has not been lost, or, at all events, will
not soon be lost.
Except for a small display of pictures, sculp-
ture, etchings, and so forth in the German section,
fine art is not represented at the Exposition
Universelle, but in the fine galleries of the Palais
du Cinquantenaire, in another quarter of the
town, there is an extensive collection of paintings
and sculpture by modern artists of various nation-
alities. Prominence is naturally given to the
Belgian group, which affords ample proof of the
vigour and independence of the artists of this
country. The French rooms, too, are very inter-
esting, and the works, representing the most
diverse elements in French art at the present day,
are admirably displayed. Much good work is also
to be found in the Dutch rooms, but with some of
the national contributions we were not impressed
very greatly, though here and there one comes
across an example of more than usual interest. The
British group is one of the smallest of all and far
from representative. A novelty in this exhibition
is a special Salon devoted to medals and plaquettes
by artists of all nationalities. Of this unique little
Salon, which the organisers have striven to make
fully representative, we hope to say more la'er.
An adjacent wing of the Palais du Cinquante-
naire is consecrated to a remarkable display of
paintings, drawings, sculpture, and applied art
belonging to the 17th century. The paintings of
the old masters, numbering more than 600, include
over a hundred by Rubens, nearly as many by
Van Dyck, and numerous examples by Adrian
Brouwer, Jordaens, Pourbus the younger, F.
Snyders, Teniers the younger, and others, con-
tributed from many sources, public and private,
including many important foreign collections. The
exhibits of decorative art include, along with many
other items of interest, the fine series of Brussels
tapestries designed by Rubens to illustrate the
history of Constantine.
PRAGUE.—Vaclav Radimsky, whose land-
scape, Giver ?iy : The Arrival of Spring, is
reproduced opposite, is perhaps the best
representative of impressionism among
the Bohemian artists Though he has made his
home in France, in which country he received his
decisive artistic training, he now and then shows
to his compatriots the result of his work ; and not
long since one had an opportunity of seeing a
collection of his paintings in the Rudolfinum, the
home of the Kunstverein fur Bohmen, where his
subtle feeling for atmospheric tones, for delicacies
of light and shade, his tender and yet vigorous sense
of colour, could be again admired. Quiet corners,
the riverside of the Seine, and rural landscapes,
are his favourite subjects. But above all, as this
' SUMMER EVENING
(By permission ofMr, Jac. de Vries)
BY H. A. VAN IN6EN
247
Britain has not been lost, or, at all events, will
not soon be lost.
Except for a small display of pictures, sculp-
ture, etchings, and so forth in the German section,
fine art is not represented at the Exposition
Universelle, but in the fine galleries of the Palais
du Cinquantenaire, in another quarter of the
town, there is an extensive collection of paintings
and sculpture by modern artists of various nation-
alities. Prominence is naturally given to the
Belgian group, which affords ample proof of the
vigour and independence of the artists of this
country. The French rooms, too, are very inter-
esting, and the works, representing the most
diverse elements in French art at the present day,
are admirably displayed. Much good work is also
to be found in the Dutch rooms, but with some of
the national contributions we were not impressed
very greatly, though here and there one comes
across an example of more than usual interest. The
British group is one of the smallest of all and far
from representative. A novelty in this exhibition
is a special Salon devoted to medals and plaquettes
by artists of all nationalities. Of this unique little
Salon, which the organisers have striven to make
fully representative, we hope to say more la'er.
An adjacent wing of the Palais du Cinquante-
naire is consecrated to a remarkable display of
paintings, drawings, sculpture, and applied art
belonging to the 17th century. The paintings of
the old masters, numbering more than 600, include
over a hundred by Rubens, nearly as many by
Van Dyck, and numerous examples by Adrian
Brouwer, Jordaens, Pourbus the younger, F.
Snyders, Teniers the younger, and others, con-
tributed from many sources, public and private,
including many important foreign collections. The
exhibits of decorative art include, along with many
other items of interest, the fine series of Brussels
tapestries designed by Rubens to illustrate the
history of Constantine.
PRAGUE.—Vaclav Radimsky, whose land-
scape, Giver ?iy : The Arrival of Spring, is
reproduced opposite, is perhaps the best
representative of impressionism among
the Bohemian artists Though he has made his
home in France, in which country he received his
decisive artistic training, he now and then shows
to his compatriots the result of his work ; and not
long since one had an opportunity of seeing a
collection of his paintings in the Rudolfinum, the
home of the Kunstverein fur Bohmen, where his
subtle feeling for atmospheric tones, for delicacies
of light and shade, his tender and yet vigorous sense
of colour, could be again admired. Quiet corners,
the riverside of the Seine, and rural landscapes,
are his favourite subjects. But above all, as this
' SUMMER EVENING
(By permission ofMr, Jac. de Vries)
BY H. A. VAN IN6EN
247