DOI Heft:
No. 35 (February, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0066
Studio- Tall:
publications are of real
arUstic worth. The black-
and-white display which was
a prominent feature in the
last annual exhibition in the
Glass Falacegave an impos-
ing idea of the extent and
significance of the progress
made in this charming and
delicate form of pictorial
illustration. Not in etching
alone, but also in lithogra-
phy and wood-engraving, our
artists are trying their hand.
Quite recently Otto Eck-
mann had a most interesting
exhibition of coloured wood
engravings. Several of them,
illustration for ■■ PROMEssi sposi by gaetano previati for instance, his Swans on the
banks of a lake covered with
in a picture? I have no hesitation in saying that water-lilies, and his moonlight scene at sea, were
since the Italian bronzes of the Quattrocento no of such delicate and artistic handling that they
finer work of the kind has been seen than this. might almost have been taken for water-colours.
-■ To prevent the layman from falling into this error,
I did not discover until later, after I had seen and to give the connoisseur a peep into the tech-
and been much impressed by all the works of the nical methods of his art, Herr Eckmann showed,
same artist then on view, that they are by a woman, side by side with the engravings, some of the
Mrs. Emma Cadwallader Guild is an American, original wood-blocks. It were well if artists would
but of Welsh origin. At the present time her more frequently take the public into their confi-
studio is in Frankfort. She had no regular training dence in this manner, for the more they under-
in art—she just began to work one day. The pro- stand the secrets of art work by having them
ductions of hers which I saw were about ten in explained in this way, the greater will grow their
number : portrait-busts, ideal heads. &c, and a appreciation.
figure of Hermes, to be called Elektron, will G. K.
shortly be completed.
G. G.
M
UNICH.-
There is no
better sign of
the fresh
spirit of en-
terprise which marks the art
world of to day in Germany
than the active interest that is
being taken in the graphic arts,
a branch which for a long time
past has been somewhat ne-
glected by our artists. For
some years there has been es-
tablished here a Society of
Painter-etchers whose yearly illustration for "promessi sposi " by gaetano pr
53
publications are of real
arUstic worth. The black-
and-white display which was
a prominent feature in the
last annual exhibition in the
Glass Falacegave an impos-
ing idea of the extent and
significance of the progress
made in this charming and
delicate form of pictorial
illustration. Not in etching
alone, but also in lithogra-
phy and wood-engraving, our
artists are trying their hand.
Quite recently Otto Eck-
mann had a most interesting
exhibition of coloured wood
engravings. Several of them,
illustration for ■■ PROMEssi sposi by gaetano previati for instance, his Swans on the
banks of a lake covered with
in a picture? I have no hesitation in saying that water-lilies, and his moonlight scene at sea, were
since the Italian bronzes of the Quattrocento no of such delicate and artistic handling that they
finer work of the kind has been seen than this. might almost have been taken for water-colours.
-■ To prevent the layman from falling into this error,
I did not discover until later, after I had seen and to give the connoisseur a peep into the tech-
and been much impressed by all the works of the nical methods of his art, Herr Eckmann showed,
same artist then on view, that they are by a woman, side by side with the engravings, some of the
Mrs. Emma Cadwallader Guild is an American, original wood-blocks. It were well if artists would
but of Welsh origin. At the present time her more frequently take the public into their confi-
studio is in Frankfort. She had no regular training dence in this manner, for the more they under-
in art—she just began to work one day. The pro- stand the secrets of art work by having them
ductions of hers which I saw were about ten in explained in this way, the greater will grow their
number : portrait-busts, ideal heads. &c, and a appreciation.
figure of Hermes, to be called Elektron, will G. K.
shortly be completed.
G. G.
M
UNICH.-
There is no
better sign of
the fresh
spirit of en-
terprise which marks the art
world of to day in Germany
than the active interest that is
being taken in the graphic arts,
a branch which for a long time
past has been somewhat ne-
glected by our artists. For
some years there has been es-
tablished here a Society of
Painter-etchers whose yearly illustration for "promessi sposi " by gaetano pr
53