DOI issue:
Nr. 166 (December, 1910)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19869#0188
Studio- Talk
surface, quite in harmony with the nature of artist's part that his work has a character that may
the business. _ be described as pointille, for he sees nature as a
conglomeration of stipple points. He is a member
The art of wood-engraving has few more ardent of the " Hagenbund " and most of the Society's
■disciples than Dr. Rudolf Junk, an example of exhibition catalogues are decorated by him. He
whose work is given in the coloured reproduction was educated at the famous old monastery of
■on the opposite page. It is a subject in which he Melk on the Danube, where he was fortunate in
has aimed at no complex effects, and in fact he has having as his teacher of drawing, Pater Benedict,
employed no more than four tints in producing a man of broad ideas who strongly inculcated in
the final result. This simplification is characteristic his pupils an unremitting study of nature,
of the artist's wood-cuts, and is in accord with -
the traditions of the art as practised in Europe. Among some very interesting work lately shown
An interesting specimen of Dr. Junk's craftmanship at the Arnot Gallery were a series of landscapes by
is a little book, l<Der kluge Knecht"—a biblio- Eugen Stibbe, an Austrian artist, who finds his
graphical gem in which both illustrations and favourite motives round about Etaples and Moret
letterpress are cut in wood in the ancient style; on the Loire. His treatment is eminently poetical,
arid another volume, a book of sonnets, is at and his pictures have, moreover, a personal touch
present being produced by him in the same way. which lends them a peculiar charm. His colour is
It may be mentioned that Dr. Junk is very near- refined, delicate and soft, and he renders what lies
sighted, so that every thing at a little distance before him with a fine view to pictorial effect, and
appears to him like a cloudy mist from which the at the same time a truth to nature which makes
varying tones gradually emerge. It is due to this them singularly attractive. His Schnellzug von
visual peculiarity and not any affectation on the Calais was favourably received at the Paris Salon
1 herbstmorgen am kanal" (In the possession ofBaron Hatvdny) by eugen stibbe
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surface, quite in harmony with the nature of artist's part that his work has a character that may
the business. _ be described as pointille, for he sees nature as a
conglomeration of stipple points. He is a member
The art of wood-engraving has few more ardent of the " Hagenbund " and most of the Society's
■disciples than Dr. Rudolf Junk, an example of exhibition catalogues are decorated by him. He
whose work is given in the coloured reproduction was educated at the famous old monastery of
■on the opposite page. It is a subject in which he Melk on the Danube, where he was fortunate in
has aimed at no complex effects, and in fact he has having as his teacher of drawing, Pater Benedict,
employed no more than four tints in producing a man of broad ideas who strongly inculcated in
the final result. This simplification is characteristic his pupils an unremitting study of nature,
of the artist's wood-cuts, and is in accord with -
the traditions of the art as practised in Europe. Among some very interesting work lately shown
An interesting specimen of Dr. Junk's craftmanship at the Arnot Gallery were a series of landscapes by
is a little book, l<Der kluge Knecht"—a biblio- Eugen Stibbe, an Austrian artist, who finds his
graphical gem in which both illustrations and favourite motives round about Etaples and Moret
letterpress are cut in wood in the ancient style; on the Loire. His treatment is eminently poetical,
arid another volume, a book of sonnets, is at and his pictures have, moreover, a personal touch
present being produced by him in the same way. which lends them a peculiar charm. His colour is
It may be mentioned that Dr. Junk is very near- refined, delicate and soft, and he renders what lies
sighted, so that every thing at a little distance before him with a fine view to pictorial effect, and
appears to him like a cloudy mist from which the at the same time a truth to nature which makes
varying tones gradually emerge. It is due to this them singularly attractive. His Schnellzug von
visual peculiarity and not any affectation on the Calais was favourably received at the Paris Salon
1 herbstmorgen am kanal" (In the possession ofBaron Hatvdny) by eugen stibbe
IS8