DOI Heft:
No. 34 (January, 1896)
DOI Artikel:The artistic movement in Finland
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0246
The Artistic Movement in Finland
there is no doubt that a flavour of nationality in any happily caught. To the left an open door gives
art serves a double purpose, in arousing keen enthu- you a peep into a laboratory • the lecturer in sombre
siasm at home, and adding piquancy to its efforts black, with a clerical-looking collar, holds a glass
in the eyes of foreigners. For, disguise it as we instrument in his hand, the contents being obviously
may, the subject and its pictorial treatment affect the subject of his discourse. The plain space of
even the most persistent champions of technique, the table in front gives dignity to the composition,
Technique and the gospel
of pigment well applied
need not be given second
place, because one asks
that the thing said shall be
as good as the manner of
its expression, or that the
subject shall be as worthy
of its technique as that is
in itself worthy.
The Exhibition opened
lately is the fifth of a series
started in 1891, and held,
like all the others, in the
Athenaeum, a stately build-
ing worthy its dignified
title. Until 1891 the Ex-
hibition in Helsingfors had
been organised by the
Kunst-forening (Society of
Art). Since that date, when
some of the younger artists
grouped themselves to-
gether and took affairs into
their own hands, the result
has been most satisfactory.
Year by year the enthusiasm
of the artists has increased,
and been rewarded with
sustained and increasing
attention from the public.
The last show was distinctly
noteworthy, notwithstand-
ing the unfortunate absence
of any works by three of
the most important artists
of Finland. Even so far
"PORTRAIT OF GREFVE P. A. SPARRE BY LOUIS SPARRE
as strangers can judge it
from the illustrated cata-
logue, it is evident that on its own merits it and carries out the effect of a full-length portrait,
deserves to be placed in the foremost rank of although the figure is hidden from the waist down-
annual exhibitions of modern work. Some of the wards.
pictures are reproduced anew in our pages, from Mr. Edelfelt shows also a delightful head of
photographs sent over specially for that purpose. a laughing girl; a charming subject-picture of
Foremost in the opinion of local judges, endorsed two figures making ready for a row on the lake;
by that of foreign visitors, comes A. Edelfelt's Dr. a notable landscape, which shows a boulevard in
Roux. The easy attitude of the scientist, who acute perspective running by a park ; and ten other
appears in the act of delivering a lecture, is most subjects. Another very noticeable exhibitor is
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there is no doubt that a flavour of nationality in any happily caught. To the left an open door gives
art serves a double purpose, in arousing keen enthu- you a peep into a laboratory • the lecturer in sombre
siasm at home, and adding piquancy to its efforts black, with a clerical-looking collar, holds a glass
in the eyes of foreigners. For, disguise it as we instrument in his hand, the contents being obviously
may, the subject and its pictorial treatment affect the subject of his discourse. The plain space of
even the most persistent champions of technique, the table in front gives dignity to the composition,
Technique and the gospel
of pigment well applied
need not be given second
place, because one asks
that the thing said shall be
as good as the manner of
its expression, or that the
subject shall be as worthy
of its technique as that is
in itself worthy.
The Exhibition opened
lately is the fifth of a series
started in 1891, and held,
like all the others, in the
Athenaeum, a stately build-
ing worthy its dignified
title. Until 1891 the Ex-
hibition in Helsingfors had
been organised by the
Kunst-forening (Society of
Art). Since that date, when
some of the younger artists
grouped themselves to-
gether and took affairs into
their own hands, the result
has been most satisfactory.
Year by year the enthusiasm
of the artists has increased,
and been rewarded with
sustained and increasing
attention from the public.
The last show was distinctly
noteworthy, notwithstand-
ing the unfortunate absence
of any works by three of
the most important artists
of Finland. Even so far
"PORTRAIT OF GREFVE P. A. SPARRE BY LOUIS SPARRE
as strangers can judge it
from the illustrated cata-
logue, it is evident that on its own merits it and carries out the effect of a full-length portrait,
deserves to be placed in the foremost rank of although the figure is hidden from the waist down-
annual exhibitions of modern work. Some of the wards.
pictures are reproduced anew in our pages, from Mr. Edelfelt shows also a delightful head of
photographs sent over specially for that purpose. a laughing girl; a charming subject-picture of
Foremost in the opinion of local judges, endorsed two figures making ready for a row on the lake;
by that of foreign visitors, comes A. Edelfelt's Dr. a notable landscape, which shows a boulevard in
Roux. The easy attitude of the scientist, who acute perspective running by a park ; and ten other
appears in the act of delivering a lecture, is most subjects. Another very noticeable exhibitor is
229