International studio (46.1912)

Arts and Crafts at the Austrian Museum, Vienna


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those trained at the Vienna
schools, and the Kunstge-
werbeschulen in Darmstadt,
Magdeburg, Weimar, Ham-
burg, Dusseldorf, to mention
but a few towns, can boast
numerous Austrian pro-
fessors and teachers of
both sexes. These still
keep up their interest in
their Alma Mater, and

contributed to the

have

STONE-CHINA BOWL AND PAINTED CRYSTAL VASE.
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED IN THE IMPERIAL
FACHSCHULE AT STEINSCHONAU

are even cheaper. No
charge is made for space,
lighting, insurance, or, in
fact, for anything; all the
exhibitors have to do is to
send work that will stand
the close scrutiny of a very
severe jury. This makes it
possible for even the small
manufacturer or handicrafts-
man to exhibit. The money
to cover the expense of the
arrangement of the exhi-
bition is provided by the
Ministry of Public Works.
The gentleman in whose do-
main everything connected
with the furthering of the
art industries lies—Sections-
chef Adolf Muller—has one
set purpose before him,
namely, to do his level best
for their development. He
is fully alive to the part the
arts and crafts play in the
growth of a nation, and is at
one with Hofrat Leisching
and Professor Roller, the
director of the Kunstge-
werbeschule. All are work-
ing together for a common
cause, and, with the students
past and present, they form
one harmonious family.
Many of the old students are
now in their turn professors
in Austria or in Germany—
for Germany is fully cognisant
of the eminent qualities of
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STONE - CHINA BOWL. IM-
PERIAL FACHSCHULE, ZNAIM

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AT ABBAZIA. DESIGNED BY
GLAX ; EXECUTED BY THE

SILVER CASKET AND ITS LID, ONE OF THE PRIZES TO BE
WINTER SPORT CLUB AT THE MOTOR-BOAT RACES
PROF. OTTO PRUTSCHER ; ENAMEL PANELS BY S.
WIENER WERKSTATTE