DOI Heft:
No. 40 (July, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0131
Studio- Talk
mained our most zealous and most powerful ex- section also contains a valuable series or original
ponents of the graphic arts. Menzel was the first designs by Walter Crane, Anning Bell, and others ;
really artistic lithographer that Germany produced, a fine collection of book-plates belonging to Mr,
At the very outset of his career he mastered the Walter Hamilton, and another owned by Mr. J.
various methods of printing from the stone. As for Walter West; several albums by Caldecott, Walter
the old lithography, almost forgotten during the Crane and other artists, together with a lovely
past decade, Skarbina is almost its sole exponent selection of bindings by Cobden Sanderson, R. de
in Berlin to-day. He does not work in the Coverley, and B. Bartlett, and a large and interest-
manner of the old lithographers, who were content ing set of business wrappers,
to reproduce from the stone a simple crayon-
drawing ; but proceeds on the plan adopted by The printed books in the French section present
Menzel, working li7nit Pinsel undSchabeisen"—with no special novelty either in typography or illustra-
pencil and graver. All sorts
of effects of light and shade
spring under his touch upon
the ink-covered surface of
the stone ; and this process
seems remarkably well
adapted to Skarbina's deli-
cate, nervous treatment of
his subjects. The accom-
panying lithograph by Skar-
bina may be considered as
an excellent example of his
work, and one showing his
wonderful technical resource.
A word of praise must also
be accorded to the printers,
Messrs. Rudolf Hesse and
Thomas, of Berlin.
J. S.
PARIS.—The in-
ternational ex-
hibition of the
" Livre Moderne "
at the "Art Nou-
veau" Galleries is rich in
interest to any one desirous
of studying the development
of modern art publishing.
It will surely cause no sur-
prise when I say that Eng-
land holds the foremost
place, with the works of
William Morris and the
Chiswick Press, the publica-
tions of Mr. Ricketts and
Mr. Lucien Pissaro, and
those of such firms as Dent,
John Lane, George Allen,
George Bell, Kegan Paul,
Batsford, Heinemann, Gay poster by m. p. verneuil
and Bird. The English (See Paris Studio-Talk)
ii5
mained our most zealous and most powerful ex- section also contains a valuable series or original
ponents of the graphic arts. Menzel was the first designs by Walter Crane, Anning Bell, and others ;
really artistic lithographer that Germany produced, a fine collection of book-plates belonging to Mr,
At the very outset of his career he mastered the Walter Hamilton, and another owned by Mr. J.
various methods of printing from the stone. As for Walter West; several albums by Caldecott, Walter
the old lithography, almost forgotten during the Crane and other artists, together with a lovely
past decade, Skarbina is almost its sole exponent selection of bindings by Cobden Sanderson, R. de
in Berlin to-day. He does not work in the Coverley, and B. Bartlett, and a large and interest-
manner of the old lithographers, who were content ing set of business wrappers,
to reproduce from the stone a simple crayon-
drawing ; but proceeds on the plan adopted by The printed books in the French section present
Menzel, working li7nit Pinsel undSchabeisen"—with no special novelty either in typography or illustra-
pencil and graver. All sorts
of effects of light and shade
spring under his touch upon
the ink-covered surface of
the stone ; and this process
seems remarkably well
adapted to Skarbina's deli-
cate, nervous treatment of
his subjects. The accom-
panying lithograph by Skar-
bina may be considered as
an excellent example of his
work, and one showing his
wonderful technical resource.
A word of praise must also
be accorded to the printers,
Messrs. Rudolf Hesse and
Thomas, of Berlin.
J. S.
PARIS.—The in-
ternational ex-
hibition of the
" Livre Moderne "
at the "Art Nou-
veau" Galleries is rich in
interest to any one desirous
of studying the development
of modern art publishing.
It will surely cause no sur-
prise when I say that Eng-
land holds the foremost
place, with the works of
William Morris and the
Chiswick Press, the publica-
tions of Mr. Ricketts and
Mr. Lucien Pissaro, and
those of such firms as Dent,
John Lane, George Allen,
George Bell, Kegan Paul,
Batsford, Heinemann, Gay poster by m. p. verneuil
and Bird. The English (See Paris Studio-Talk)
ii5