DOI Heft:
Nr. 335 (April 1925)
DOI Artikel:Comstock, Helen: Sculpture by Emil Fuchs
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0061
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"portrait in bronze of edgar seligmann"
by emil fuchs
grateful in making his studio a centre for a too
rare aspect of social life. He has created an
atmosphere in which the expiring art of conver-
sation is given a new vitality; while avoiding the
pomp of the salon of yesterday and the rigidities
of thought and personnel of the "little group of
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serious thinkers " of today, he has made his studio
a place of informal communication among people
of varied interests—scientists and explorers, men
and women of society, publishers, collectors of art,
writers and artists.
When Mr. Fuchs arrived in London in 1897,
the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, a
torrent of social activities seemed to sweep past
and leave him as a stranger, very much alone,
with none too promising prospects. Mrs. Meyer
finally found time to have her portrait completed,
however, and General Ellis sought him out in his
Kensington studio with an order for a portrait of
his youngest daughter. General Ellis, later Sir
Arthur Ellis, also ordered a portrait medallion of
himself, used on an ashtray which he presented
as a Christmas gift to the Prince of Wales, and
this put a final link in the chain of coincidences
which resulted in the Prince of Wales' visit to the
"mr. kobayashi" in bronze by emil fuchs
sixty-one
"portrait in bronze of edgar seligmann"
by emil fuchs
grateful in making his studio a centre for a too
rare aspect of social life. He has created an
atmosphere in which the expiring art of conver-
sation is given a new vitality; while avoiding the
pomp of the salon of yesterday and the rigidities
of thought and personnel of the "little group of
april 1925
AClOnAL
1010
serious thinkers " of today, he has made his studio
a place of informal communication among people
of varied interests—scientists and explorers, men
and women of society, publishers, collectors of art,
writers and artists.
When Mr. Fuchs arrived in London in 1897,
the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, a
torrent of social activities seemed to sweep past
and leave him as a stranger, very much alone,
with none too promising prospects. Mrs. Meyer
finally found time to have her portrait completed,
however, and General Ellis sought him out in his
Kensington studio with an order for a portrait of
his youngest daughter. General Ellis, later Sir
Arthur Ellis, also ordered a portrait medallion of
himself, used on an ashtray which he presented
as a Christmas gift to the Prince of Wales, and
this put a final link in the chain of coincidences
which resulted in the Prince of Wales' visit to the
"mr. kobayashi" in bronze by emil fuchs
sixty-one