DOI Heft:
No. 40 (July, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0137
Studio- Talk
are not absolute works of art, they all show artistic therefore, content myself now with mentioning
merit in their freedom from mawkishness and anec- another realist of the " grand manner"—Wilhelm
dotal accessories. Thoma proves himself the Leibl—a series of whose works, illustrating the
possessor of a true sense of form, in the double various periods of his development, is also on
portrait of himself and his wife, and reveals a land- view here. Two tendencies combine in Leibl, first
scapist of eminent command of tone, in his one and then the other predominating, and some-
luminous summer scene (1894), and in his evening times combining in creations of the highest artistic
river piece (1887). And what simple grandeur value. The one tendency is in the direction of the
there is in the work entitled Einsamkeit—the nude modern picturesque manner, with the minute tech-
figure of a youth, who crouches on a cliff in dreamy nical skill which he made his own after the model
meditation, the outlines of the slight body standing of his French contemporaries, such as Courbet.
clearly out from the blue space of sky and sea. On the other hand, he finds an epic delight in
things themselves and in their detail, as he found
them in the old masters, like Diirer and Holbein.
One of the large galleries contains works of all
kinds by Adolf Menzel—oil paintings, such as the
Eisenwalzwerk, lithographs, etchings, water-colours, To this second manner belongs the picture—
pen-and-ink sketches. It is impossible here in now in the possession of a private owner—Drei
this brief space to attempt to do justice to this, Bduerinnen in der Kirche, which was exhibited in
the greatest of our genuine realists, nor is it neces- 1883, and caused a profound and well-deserved
sary, since your Berlin correspondent, on the occa- sensation. To the same tendency must be ascribed
sion of the Menzel Celebration in Berlin in De- the Tischgesellschaft, which may now be seen in the
cember last, dealt fully with his work. I will, Glass Palace. Of his other pictures I will simply
INGLE-NOOK
are not absolute works of art, they all show artistic therefore, content myself now with mentioning
merit in their freedom from mawkishness and anec- another realist of the " grand manner"—Wilhelm
dotal accessories. Thoma proves himself the Leibl—a series of whose works, illustrating the
possessor of a true sense of form, in the double various periods of his development, is also on
portrait of himself and his wife, and reveals a land- view here. Two tendencies combine in Leibl, first
scapist of eminent command of tone, in his one and then the other predominating, and some-
luminous summer scene (1894), and in his evening times combining in creations of the highest artistic
river piece (1887). And what simple grandeur value. The one tendency is in the direction of the
there is in the work entitled Einsamkeit—the nude modern picturesque manner, with the minute tech-
figure of a youth, who crouches on a cliff in dreamy nical skill which he made his own after the model
meditation, the outlines of the slight body standing of his French contemporaries, such as Courbet.
clearly out from the blue space of sky and sea. On the other hand, he finds an epic delight in
things themselves and in their detail, as he found
them in the old masters, like Diirer and Holbein.
One of the large galleries contains works of all
kinds by Adolf Menzel—oil paintings, such as the
Eisenwalzwerk, lithographs, etchings, water-colours, To this second manner belongs the picture—
pen-and-ink sketches. It is impossible here in now in the possession of a private owner—Drei
this brief space to attempt to do justice to this, Bduerinnen in der Kirche, which was exhibited in
the greatest of our genuine realists, nor is it neces- 1883, and caused a profound and well-deserved
sary, since your Berlin correspondent, on the occa- sensation. To the same tendency must be ascribed
sion of the Menzel Celebration in Berlin in De- the Tischgesellschaft, which may now be seen in the
cember last, dealt fully with his work. I will, Glass Palace. Of his other pictures I will simply
INGLE-NOOK