DOI Heft:
No. 34 (January, 1896)
DOI Artikel:The artistic movement in Finland
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17295#0247
The Artistic Movement in Finland
and several other figure pictures are
exhibited by the same artist.
A portrait study in pencil, by
Ellen Thesleff, is reproduced in the
catalogue, but the block gives an
unsatisfactory representation, as the
delicate softness of the original, and
the sweet expression of the pretty
model, are replaced by a hard effect.
A work, distinguished by a very
pronounced decorative effect, is
entitled In an Old Park (I en gam-
mal park), by Vaino Blomstedt.
There is a curious suggestion of the
influence of William Stott of Old-
ham in its composition. A lad with
bare legs is dipping his feet into a
stream among a group of water-lilies.
Behind him sits a maiden playing
a guitar-like instrument. Both
figures are in modern dress; but
the plan of the work, not less than
its coloration, classes it with the
modern school of patterns in land-
scapes rather than the plein-air
school, its immediate predecessor.
Two landscapes, Odemarks sjo,
and Skogsbiick, both illustrated in the
catalogue, are peculiarly decorative.
In the one, bare tree-stems frame
the composition, as it were, while
FROM A PAINTING BY A. EDELFELT right down the centre mmbles a cag.
cade of impetuous foaming water ;
Magnus Enckell, a man still young, who made his the other is as restful as a Kakemono, and disposi-
d'ebut here only three years ago with a portrait of tion of the straight lines of the trees, with the
a lady and two water-colours. His chief picture, diagonal sweep of the banks and the placid water
Melancolia, is a singularly powerful composition. between, seem to owe no little to the art of Japan.
On a stone bench, with the distant sea behind, is The Neist neimien nenissd by Pekka Halonen,
seated a figure robed in red, violet, and green. In which we reproduce here, is a notable work. The
the abandonment of utter despair a man, entirely subject is taken from the National Epic of
nude, has thrown himself at her feet, and buried Kalevala. The painting is more clear and brilliant
his face in her lap. His figure leaves little to be in tone than the photograph represents it. The
desired in its design, and is particularly fine in landscape is distinguished by remarkable finesse
the quality of its flesh tints. The colour of the in the handling and exquisite delicacy of colour, and
group harmonises in a charming fashion with the the figures—the one in front from a very beautiful
tender greys of the background. Another picture, model—are noble and impressive. The artist is
A Fantasy, suggests Bcecklin and the German Se- a young man sprung from peasant ancestors in
cessionists. It is a very graceful decorative panel, the north of Finland. Hence his art is peculiarly
In the extreme front, cut off by the frame, is the marked by the national expression of the poetry
nude torso of a seated youth, who holds a lyre; of the race, expressed in idioms that are racy
behind is a silent pool, on which are white swans ; of the soil. A very distinguished landscape by
sombre trees rise up, shutting out the sky, except the same hand is also illustrated in the catalogue,
where it is seen over a Grecian temple in far dis- An exquisite landscape, also peculiarly Finnish in
tance at the right hand. Two admirable landscapes character, by Hj Munsterhjelm, is reproduced here-
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and several other figure pictures are
exhibited by the same artist.
A portrait study in pencil, by
Ellen Thesleff, is reproduced in the
catalogue, but the block gives an
unsatisfactory representation, as the
delicate softness of the original, and
the sweet expression of the pretty
model, are replaced by a hard effect.
A work, distinguished by a very
pronounced decorative effect, is
entitled In an Old Park (I en gam-
mal park), by Vaino Blomstedt.
There is a curious suggestion of the
influence of William Stott of Old-
ham in its composition. A lad with
bare legs is dipping his feet into a
stream among a group of water-lilies.
Behind him sits a maiden playing
a guitar-like instrument. Both
figures are in modern dress; but
the plan of the work, not less than
its coloration, classes it with the
modern school of patterns in land-
scapes rather than the plein-air
school, its immediate predecessor.
Two landscapes, Odemarks sjo,
and Skogsbiick, both illustrated in the
catalogue, are peculiarly decorative.
In the one, bare tree-stems frame
the composition, as it were, while
FROM A PAINTING BY A. EDELFELT right down the centre mmbles a cag.
cade of impetuous foaming water ;
Magnus Enckell, a man still young, who made his the other is as restful as a Kakemono, and disposi-
d'ebut here only three years ago with a portrait of tion of the straight lines of the trees, with the
a lady and two water-colours. His chief picture, diagonal sweep of the banks and the placid water
Melancolia, is a singularly powerful composition. between, seem to owe no little to the art of Japan.
On a stone bench, with the distant sea behind, is The Neist neimien nenissd by Pekka Halonen,
seated a figure robed in red, violet, and green. In which we reproduce here, is a notable work. The
the abandonment of utter despair a man, entirely subject is taken from the National Epic of
nude, has thrown himself at her feet, and buried Kalevala. The painting is more clear and brilliant
his face in her lap. His figure leaves little to be in tone than the photograph represents it. The
desired in its design, and is particularly fine in landscape is distinguished by remarkable finesse
the quality of its flesh tints. The colour of the in the handling and exquisite delicacy of colour, and
group harmonises in a charming fashion with the the figures—the one in front from a very beautiful
tender greys of the background. Another picture, model—are noble and impressive. The artist is
A Fantasy, suggests Bcecklin and the German Se- a young man sprung from peasant ancestors in
cessionists. It is a very graceful decorative panel, the north of Finland. Hence his art is peculiarly
In the extreme front, cut off by the frame, is the marked by the national expression of the poetry
nude torso of a seated youth, who holds a lyre; of the race, expressed in idioms that are racy
behind is a silent pool, on which are white swans ; of the soil. A very distinguished landscape by
sombre trees rise up, shutting out the sky, except the same hand is also illustrated in the catalogue,
where it is seen over a Grecian temple in far dis- An exquisite landscape, also peculiarly Finnish in
tance at the right hand. Two admirable landscapes character, by Hj Munsterhjelm, is reproduced here-
230