DOI Heft:
No. 216 (February 1915)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43457#0428
Studio-Talk
DECORATIVE PAINTING
C Deu Norske Hitsflidsjorening, Christiania J
BY GERHARD MUNTHE
the tedium of many idle hours, and further it trains
and elevates the taste of its co-workers by means
of lectures, classes, designs, &c. To its success
in the former direction many grateful and touching
testimonies bear witness, and with regard to the
latter let it suffice to say that the foremost artists
in Norway have been proud to be counted amongst
the labourers in Den Norske Husflidsforening’s
vineyard. ._
'bhe society, in addition, has a clever staff of its
own, which designs both textile work, more or less
ambitious, furniture, &c. It is more especially in
the former, in the decorative weavings, that more
or less ancient Norse traditions make themselves
felt almost invariably with the most satisfactory
decorative results. In the smaller items, in the
cushions for instance, more modern and personal
lines have been adopted. In these, as in the
furniture, there often is a certain bold, yet contained
unconventionalism which may prove the fore-
runner of a more pronounced modern northern
style, and one of the features of this is likely to be
the absence of that effeminateness which occa-
sionally detracts from the value of kindred efforts
elsewhere—an evolution entirely in harmony with
national character and taste.
The furniture designed by Mr. Mathias Enge,
however, still retains many traits peculiar to the
work of rural craftsmen of former days. Birch has
made for itself many friends amongst Scandinavian
designers of furniture, M. Agathon amongst them,
and when properly treated it is often possessed of
decorative painting (Den Norske Husflidsj'orening) by geriiard MUNTHE
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DECORATIVE PAINTING
C Deu Norske Hitsflidsjorening, Christiania J
BY GERHARD MUNTHE
the tedium of many idle hours, and further it trains
and elevates the taste of its co-workers by means
of lectures, classes, designs, &c. To its success
in the former direction many grateful and touching
testimonies bear witness, and with regard to the
latter let it suffice to say that the foremost artists
in Norway have been proud to be counted amongst
the labourers in Den Norske Husflidsforening’s
vineyard. ._
'bhe society, in addition, has a clever staff of its
own, which designs both textile work, more or less
ambitious, furniture, &c. It is more especially in
the former, in the decorative weavings, that more
or less ancient Norse traditions make themselves
felt almost invariably with the most satisfactory
decorative results. In the smaller items, in the
cushions for instance, more modern and personal
lines have been adopted. In these, as in the
furniture, there often is a certain bold, yet contained
unconventionalism which may prove the fore-
runner of a more pronounced modern northern
style, and one of the features of this is likely to be
the absence of that effeminateness which occa-
sionally detracts from the value of kindred efforts
elsewhere—an evolution entirely in harmony with
national character and taste.
The furniture designed by Mr. Mathias Enge,
however, still retains many traits peculiar to the
work of rural craftsmen of former days. Birch has
made for itself many friends amongst Scandinavian
designers of furniture, M. Agathon amongst them,
and when properly treated it is often possessed of
decorative painting (Den Norske Husflidsj'orening) by geriiard MUNTHE
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