DOI issue:
Nr. 170 (April, 1911)
DOI article:Studio-Talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43446#0225
Studio- Talk
very individual style and original technique.
The other exhibition was that of the Quelques,
held in the Galeries des Artistes Modernes,
where several talented women showed their
work, such as Mme. Galtier-Boissiere, who
paints excellent interiors, Mme. Settler, a
pupil of Lucien Simon, and Mme. Bernieres-
Henraux, whose little sculptures were infinitely
charming. H. F.
BERLIN.—Professor Max Kruse, the
sculptor and vice-president of our
Secession, is just now much talked
about for his merits as inventor.
He has constructed a machine for the repro-
duction of any kind of sculpture in any size,
and one that works with absolute precision.
UNBREAKABLE DOLLS DESIGNED AND EXECUTED
BY KATE KRUSE
The problem of aviation has also occupied him,
as it did Leonardo, Bocklin and Thoma, and
he has come to quite new conclusions. The
theatre is indebted to him for his setting of
Wilde’s Salome, an initiative which carried out
for stage-reform the idea of the relief arrange-
ment. The germs of Director Reinhardt’s
unparalleled successes as stage-manager are
thus to be traced back to Kruse’s influence.
Kruse won his first triumph with The Mes-
senger of the Marathon Victory, now in the
Berlin National Gallery. This work of passion
and composure revealed an academician ena-
moured with Polycletus, but more and more
the eloquence of quiet form became his ideal.
Whether composing heroic monuments or
sculpture for graves, trios or duos, whether
recalling Donatello or the masters of Tanagra,
he sought to convince by expressive simplicity.
This longing, coupled with the psychologist’s
rare insight, has fitted the portrait-sculptor to
render the sweetness of childhood as character-
istically as the virile intellectuality of the artist.
Kruse has reawakened the old German love for
the wood-material, and he is now executing a
solemnly touching Proserpine in basalt.
153
“BUST OF AN AMERICAN LADY’’
BY MAX KRUSE
very individual style and original technique.
The other exhibition was that of the Quelques,
held in the Galeries des Artistes Modernes,
where several talented women showed their
work, such as Mme. Galtier-Boissiere, who
paints excellent interiors, Mme. Settler, a
pupil of Lucien Simon, and Mme. Bernieres-
Henraux, whose little sculptures were infinitely
charming. H. F.
BERLIN.—Professor Max Kruse, the
sculptor and vice-president of our
Secession, is just now much talked
about for his merits as inventor.
He has constructed a machine for the repro-
duction of any kind of sculpture in any size,
and one that works with absolute precision.
UNBREAKABLE DOLLS DESIGNED AND EXECUTED
BY KATE KRUSE
The problem of aviation has also occupied him,
as it did Leonardo, Bocklin and Thoma, and
he has come to quite new conclusions. The
theatre is indebted to him for his setting of
Wilde’s Salome, an initiative which carried out
for stage-reform the idea of the relief arrange-
ment. The germs of Director Reinhardt’s
unparalleled successes as stage-manager are
thus to be traced back to Kruse’s influence.
Kruse won his first triumph with The Mes-
senger of the Marathon Victory, now in the
Berlin National Gallery. This work of passion
and composure revealed an academician ena-
moured with Polycletus, but more and more
the eloquence of quiet form became his ideal.
Whether composing heroic monuments or
sculpture for graves, trios or duos, whether
recalling Donatello or the masters of Tanagra,
he sought to convince by expressive simplicity.
This longing, coupled with the psychologist’s
rare insight, has fitted the portrait-sculptor to
render the sweetness of childhood as character-
istically as the virile intellectuality of the artist.
Kruse has reawakened the old German love for
the wood-material, and he is now executing a
solemnly touching Proserpine in basalt.
153
“BUST OF AN AMERICAN LADY’’
BY MAX KRUSE