DOI Heft:
Nr. 198 (August 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-Talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43453#0185
Studio-Talk
artists to hold an exhibition there. The result ex-
ceeded their hopes, and having by this time amassed
the sum of 30,000 kronen (^1250), they approached
the Austrian Ministry of Fine Arts and were granted
a small subsidy towards the expense of. building
the gallery. The town of Goding also gave help as
far as lay in its power, and the Diet of Moravia
contributed ; but by far the most interesting point is
the fact that the peasants themselves gave generous
assistance either by giving money or by lending
sums of a hundred kronen each on notes of hand
signed by the society, payable only in twenty years.
Other friends gave material help, and the building
was thus made possible.
The aims of this Moravian Society of Artists are
high. They intend to hold periodical exhibitions of
Slovak art and that of other nations, including
of course German Moravia. When no exhibition
is being held the gallery will serve the purpose of
a museum and picture gallery, and already a small
permanent collection has been gathered together,
consisting of works purchased by the society or
presented by various artists, while others have been
loaned to them. The museum collection includes
some beautiful specimens of peasant art, such as the
marvellous embroideries for which the women and
girls are so justly celebrated. The building itself,
in addition to the exhibition rooms, contains a large
studio where such artists as are visiting the
district may work, an artists’ hostel with rooms and
atelier, a library, and a dwelling for the caretaker.
The basement has been fitted up with workshops
where the arts and crafts of Moravian Slovakei are
to be encouraged and practised. Thus every
facility is to be given for the furtherance not only
of the fine arts, but also of the arts and crafts of
this country indigenous to the locality. This is
important, for it must be borne in mind that the
leading Moravian artists, including Jo2a Uprka, the
President of the Society, are of the peasant class.
The Slovaks are extremely proud of him, and once
“ MOONRISE
!52
(Kunstlerhaiis, Goding)
BY ROMAN HAVELKA
artists to hold an exhibition there. The result ex-
ceeded their hopes, and having by this time amassed
the sum of 30,000 kronen (^1250), they approached
the Austrian Ministry of Fine Arts and were granted
a small subsidy towards the expense of. building
the gallery. The town of Goding also gave help as
far as lay in its power, and the Diet of Moravia
contributed ; but by far the most interesting point is
the fact that the peasants themselves gave generous
assistance either by giving money or by lending
sums of a hundred kronen each on notes of hand
signed by the society, payable only in twenty years.
Other friends gave material help, and the building
was thus made possible.
The aims of this Moravian Society of Artists are
high. They intend to hold periodical exhibitions of
Slovak art and that of other nations, including
of course German Moravia. When no exhibition
is being held the gallery will serve the purpose of
a museum and picture gallery, and already a small
permanent collection has been gathered together,
consisting of works purchased by the society or
presented by various artists, while others have been
loaned to them. The museum collection includes
some beautiful specimens of peasant art, such as the
marvellous embroideries for which the women and
girls are so justly celebrated. The building itself,
in addition to the exhibition rooms, contains a large
studio where such artists as are visiting the
district may work, an artists’ hostel with rooms and
atelier, a library, and a dwelling for the caretaker.
The basement has been fitted up with workshops
where the arts and crafts of Moravian Slovakei are
to be encouraged and practised. Thus every
facility is to be given for the furtherance not only
of the fine arts, but also of the arts and crafts of
this country indigenous to the locality. This is
important, for it must be borne in mind that the
leading Moravian artists, including Jo2a Uprka, the
President of the Society, are of the peasant class.
The Slovaks are extremely proud of him, and once
“ MOONRISE
!52
(Kunstlerhaiis, Goding)
BY ROMAN HAVELKA