DOI issue:
Nr. 173 (July, 1911)
DOI article:Studio-Talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43447#0111
Studio- Talk
COPENHAGEN.
—Carl Martin
Hansen’s three
statuettes repre-
senting Danish types, which
are reproduced on p.
76, carry on old traditions
of the Royal Danish Por-
celain Works and possess
no mean merit from an
artistic point of view, within
their narrow compass giving
much of what is charac-
teristic for the individual
models. The lines are
pleasing and self-con-
tained—a two-fold virtue
where the question is of
such a fragile medium as
porcelain.
Stepban Sinding’s Vai-
kyrit shares ii I mistake
not, in the sculptor’s mind
the premier place amongst
his works with his To
Mennesker. Between the
latter and the former, how-
“ LE DEVOUEMENT '■ -. PORTION Of THE “MONUMENT DE L’lNFINIE BONTE
BY CHARLES VAN DER STAPPEN
75
in several ot his important works the effect of that
democratic tendency which was so magnificently
expressed by his friend, C. Meunier. Van der
Stappen was unquestionably the most prolific and
varied of all Belgian sculptors; ever interested in
new materials and new methods of work, astounding
us always by the prodigious activity of his imagina-
tion and his insatiable thirst 'for knowledge, he
undertook with the same enthusiasm, and almost
always with equal success, the making of sculptures
and works of plastic art the most diverse in
nature. He was also a remarkable teacher and set
himself to reorganise art
teaching in his country and
to accord to the crafts and
to applied art generally their
due measure of value and
importance. Certain of
our most prominent sculp¬
tors owe a great deal of
their success to him, in
common with Rousseau,
Rombaux, and P. Dubois.
F. K.
ever, is a span of nigh upon two decades, and yet the
Valkyrie is endowed with all the favour, the energy,
the enthusiasm of his youth. This wild daughter of
Odin revels with exultant joy in the Sturm und
Gewitter (the German words flow all the more
spontaneously from the pen as the Valkyrie,
perhaps, is as Teutonic as she is Norse) which
speeds her to the longed-for field of battle. As.
she, heedless and fearless, tears along on her
snorting steed, she espies from afar the valorous
hero, destined this day to bite the dust and as her
Einherja to ride with her to Valhalla, the golden hall
COPENHAGEN.
—Carl Martin
Hansen’s three
statuettes repre-
senting Danish types, which
are reproduced on p.
76, carry on old traditions
of the Royal Danish Por-
celain Works and possess
no mean merit from an
artistic point of view, within
their narrow compass giving
much of what is charac-
teristic for the individual
models. The lines are
pleasing and self-con-
tained—a two-fold virtue
where the question is of
such a fragile medium as
porcelain.
Stepban Sinding’s Vai-
kyrit shares ii I mistake
not, in the sculptor’s mind
the premier place amongst
his works with his To
Mennesker. Between the
latter and the former, how-
“ LE DEVOUEMENT '■ -. PORTION Of THE “MONUMENT DE L’lNFINIE BONTE
BY CHARLES VAN DER STAPPEN
75
in several ot his important works the effect of that
democratic tendency which was so magnificently
expressed by his friend, C. Meunier. Van der
Stappen was unquestionably the most prolific and
varied of all Belgian sculptors; ever interested in
new materials and new methods of work, astounding
us always by the prodigious activity of his imagina-
tion and his insatiable thirst 'for knowledge, he
undertook with the same enthusiasm, and almost
always with equal success, the making of sculptures
and works of plastic art the most diverse in
nature. He was also a remarkable teacher and set
himself to reorganise art
teaching in his country and
to accord to the crafts and
to applied art generally their
due measure of value and
importance. Certain of
our most prominent sculp¬
tors owe a great deal of
their success to him, in
common with Rousseau,
Rombaux, and P. Dubois.
F. K.
ever, is a span of nigh upon two decades, and yet the
Valkyrie is endowed with all the favour, the energy,
the enthusiasm of his youth. This wild daughter of
Odin revels with exultant joy in the Sturm und
Gewitter (the German words flow all the more
spontaneously from the pen as the Valkyrie,
perhaps, is as Teutonic as she is Norse) which
speeds her to the longed-for field of battle. As.
she, heedless and fearless, tears along on her
snorting steed, she espies from afar the valorous
hero, destined this day to bite the dust and as her
Einherja to ride with her to Valhalla, the golden hall