DOI Heft:
Nr. 164 (October, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0423
Studio- Talk
The etchings of Fischer now number above a
hundred. Taken chronologically, the list is led
off by the usual amount of " first attempts" and
desultory landscape plates, the subjects for which
were chosen in the neighbourhood of Dresden and
on the Isle of Riigen. Then there followed a
Bornholm set, a dozen plates or so, of sketches
made upon the shores of this Danish island in the
Baltic. After his return from Bornholm, Fischer
spent a number of years in the Silesian " Riesenge-
birge." He brought from there a great number of
magnificent pastel and crayon drawings, which really
established his fame as one of the most important
among German landscape artists. Never before
had this interesting tract of country—the highest
mountain-range in North Germany—been exploited
by a true artist. Nor has any other tract ever
been handled more superbly. Not one of these
drawings is a simple " view." The strange char-
acter has been grasped with the divination of a
seer, and its elements placed before the laity in
art so forcefully that no one will fail of being
impressed.
The " Riesengebirge" did not interest the
etcher in Fischer to the same degree as the
draughtsman and painter. Yet there are some
fine plates, produced during these years, notably
some sombre mezzotint and sandpaper aquatint
landscapes. Besides, during intervals, while
Fischer was revisiting Dresden in the course of
these same years, he did a number of exquisite
large dry-point plates, such as the Island on the
Elbe, reproduced in The Studio number above
referred to.
In 1905 there followed on the first Hamburg set
of eleven plates, supplemented next year by a
second Hamburg set of seven etchings. In these
two sets he attempted architecture for the first time.
In 1907-8 he did twelve plates of landscapes at
the foot of the " Riesengebirge." The nature of
the subjects is altogether different from that of the
work executed several years before. During sum-
mer and fall, 1908, in fine, he finished a new
Bohemian set, six plates of landscapes along the
Elbe, in the north of Bohemia.
"ISLANDS ON THE ELBE IN BOHEMIA" (ETCHING) BY OTTO FISCHER
(By permission of the Ernst Arnold Kunsthand, ting, Dresden)
324
The etchings of Fischer now number above a
hundred. Taken chronologically, the list is led
off by the usual amount of " first attempts" and
desultory landscape plates, the subjects for which
were chosen in the neighbourhood of Dresden and
on the Isle of Riigen. Then there followed a
Bornholm set, a dozen plates or so, of sketches
made upon the shores of this Danish island in the
Baltic. After his return from Bornholm, Fischer
spent a number of years in the Silesian " Riesenge-
birge." He brought from there a great number of
magnificent pastel and crayon drawings, which really
established his fame as one of the most important
among German landscape artists. Never before
had this interesting tract of country—the highest
mountain-range in North Germany—been exploited
by a true artist. Nor has any other tract ever
been handled more superbly. Not one of these
drawings is a simple " view." The strange char-
acter has been grasped with the divination of a
seer, and its elements placed before the laity in
art so forcefully that no one will fail of being
impressed.
The " Riesengebirge" did not interest the
etcher in Fischer to the same degree as the
draughtsman and painter. Yet there are some
fine plates, produced during these years, notably
some sombre mezzotint and sandpaper aquatint
landscapes. Besides, during intervals, while
Fischer was revisiting Dresden in the course of
these same years, he did a number of exquisite
large dry-point plates, such as the Island on the
Elbe, reproduced in The Studio number above
referred to.
In 1905 there followed on the first Hamburg set
of eleven plates, supplemented next year by a
second Hamburg set of seven etchings. In these
two sets he attempted architecture for the first time.
In 1907-8 he did twelve plates of landscapes at
the foot of the " Riesengebirge." The nature of
the subjects is altogether different from that of the
work executed several years before. During sum-
mer and fall, 1908, in fine, he finished a new
Bohemian set, six plates of landscapes along the
Elbe, in the north of Bohemia.
"ISLANDS ON THE ELBE IN BOHEMIA" (ETCHING) BY OTTO FISCHER
(By permission of the Ernst Arnold Kunsthand, ting, Dresden)
324