DOI Heft:
Nr. 164 (October, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0426
Studio- Talk
tain extentfhis technical
means, to adapt them to
the character of whatever
nature-subject he is upon
the point of presenting.
Thus it is clear that
when grandeur has been
the chord touched in him,
he must choose one
quality of line to com-
municate the impression,
and another when placid
comeliness has given the
cue. H. W. S.
S
TOCKHOLM. —
It is only two
years since Carl
"the troubles of a bridesmaid" by carl larsson LarSSOn held his
last large exhibition in
something, not what they speak about, which Stockholm, and now this indefatigable worker has
engrosses their interest. already had a new and most interesting show of
- work done during this short period. This exhibi-
Anyone viewing in turn Fischer's various sets tion, held in the Hallin Konsthandel galleries, only
might well imagine them the work of so many contained easel pictures in oil and water-colours and
different men. His interest in artistic oratory ex- some etchings, nearly all depicting his happy family
tends to a keen appreciation of its fundamental life in his charming home at Sundborn, in the heart
principles ; beyond that, it does not fascinate him. of that quaint, old-fashioned province, Dalarne.
He will never, when handling the etcher's point, Of the 60 pictures shown, 35 belonged to one
violate the rules of true style; but he does not series called "On the sunny side," all of them
pursue the subject to the extent of developing a water-colours painted with Carl Larsson's usual
carefully-filed finish, which reflects at once an mastery, but in style quite different from his
artistic sagacity and the peculiar tenor of its earlier ones, which, at least during the last ten or
author's character. His
main interest lies in the
direction of offering in
his etching a forceful pre-
sentation of the impres-
sion which nature has
made upon him. To a
creative genius of this class
every one of the various
phases of nature has its
proper character, and as
the poet tries to deli-
neate human character
so as to make its work-
ings plain to the rest of
us, so this artist tries
to unfold the character
of mountain and meadow,
of sea and city to us. It
is natural for an artist like
Fischer to vary to a cer- "in the library" by carl larsson
327
tain extentfhis technical
means, to adapt them to
the character of whatever
nature-subject he is upon
the point of presenting.
Thus it is clear that
when grandeur has been
the chord touched in him,
he must choose one
quality of line to com-
municate the impression,
and another when placid
comeliness has given the
cue. H. W. S.
S
TOCKHOLM. —
It is only two
years since Carl
"the troubles of a bridesmaid" by carl larsson LarSSOn held his
last large exhibition in
something, not what they speak about, which Stockholm, and now this indefatigable worker has
engrosses their interest. already had a new and most interesting show of
- work done during this short period. This exhibi-
Anyone viewing in turn Fischer's various sets tion, held in the Hallin Konsthandel galleries, only
might well imagine them the work of so many contained easel pictures in oil and water-colours and
different men. His interest in artistic oratory ex- some etchings, nearly all depicting his happy family
tends to a keen appreciation of its fundamental life in his charming home at Sundborn, in the heart
principles ; beyond that, it does not fascinate him. of that quaint, old-fashioned province, Dalarne.
He will never, when handling the etcher's point, Of the 60 pictures shown, 35 belonged to one
violate the rules of true style; but he does not series called "On the sunny side," all of them
pursue the subject to the extent of developing a water-colours painted with Carl Larsson's usual
carefully-filed finish, which reflects at once an mastery, but in style quite different from his
artistic sagacity and the peculiar tenor of its earlier ones, which, at least during the last ten or
author's character. His
main interest lies in the
direction of offering in
his etching a forceful pre-
sentation of the impres-
sion which nature has
made upon him. To a
creative genius of this class
every one of the various
phases of nature has its
proper character, and as
the poet tries to deli-
neate human character
so as to make its work-
ings plain to the rest of
us, so this artist tries
to unfold the character
of mountain and meadow,
of sea and city to us. It
is natural for an artist like
Fischer to vary to a cer- "in the library" by carl larsson
327