DOI issue:
No. 47 (February, 1897)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0069
Studio- Talk
colour resembling an aubergine, with the stem and trees. The artist, whose most celebrated picture,
leaf in wrought iron serving as a handle—all these Heiligen Georg ("St. George"), was bought some
are thoroughly successful. The material is natural years ago by the State, now holds a brilliant posi-
and beautiful, and not overladen with enamel. don at the Art School in Stuttgart, Wiirttemberg,
G. M. where he enjoys the highest renown, both as
teacher and painter. G. K.
UNICH.—Sotnmerabend (" A Sum-
RUSSELS.—The Exhibition of the Ant-
werp Royal Society of Fine Arts gives
promise of being very interesting, for
support has come in from all sides,
time one of the most popular, works in this ' It is exclusively confined to water-
year's Exhibition of the "Secession." Quite deli- colours, and it is to be hoped that this time the
cate and subdued in tone, its effect is never- Antwerp public, so long averse to this kind of
theless in no way weak, but powerful and strik- painting, will at last understand that results quite
ing to a degree. The ensemble is altogether as satisfactory as those produced by oils may be
excellent both in technique and in colouring, par- obtained by this medium. An important series of
ticularly clever being the juxtaposition of the two exhibits of the French school is displayed,
whites—that of the dress, and that of the birch -
MUJNICH.—Sommerabend ("A Sum-
mer's Evening"), the picture by ~1| "v \
Ludwig Herterich (illustrated I W
upon page 57), was one of the 1
most poetical, and at the same 9
Now that the rearrangement of the
pictures in the Musee de Bruxellcs
is completed to the satisfaction of all
concerned, it is time to suggest a
similar course of action with regard
to the sculpture collection, which
has lately been enriched by several
works of great value. Foremost
among these additions is a life-size
marble figure by M. Paul Dubois of
Brussels, representing a lady of the
present day in ball-dress, seated, with
a closed fan in her lap (see page 56).
M. Paul Dubois, a pupil of M.
Charles Vander Stappen, has, like
his master, a strongly developed
sense of the decorative in art. He
has produced several things in tin
and in copper—vases, candelabra,
sugar-holders, &c. — of extremely
graceful outline. But his chief and
most characteristic successes have
been in his treatment of women's
dress of to-day. This is no doubt
due in a measure to the fact that, as
a " society man," he has had constant
opportunities of studying the world
he knows and lives in. And in this
respect he differs completely from
certain artists, who, after a course of
" classic " study—as a matter of duty
—are now, for the same reason,
devoting themselves to the "modern "
{See Vienna Studio-Talk) or the "socialistic," simply because
PORTRAIT BY LEOPOLD HOROWITZ
58
colour resembling an aubergine, with the stem and trees. The artist, whose most celebrated picture,
leaf in wrought iron serving as a handle—all these Heiligen Georg ("St. George"), was bought some
are thoroughly successful. The material is natural years ago by the State, now holds a brilliant posi-
and beautiful, and not overladen with enamel. don at the Art School in Stuttgart, Wiirttemberg,
G. M. where he enjoys the highest renown, both as
teacher and painter. G. K.
UNICH.—Sotnmerabend (" A Sum-
RUSSELS.—The Exhibition of the Ant-
werp Royal Society of Fine Arts gives
promise of being very interesting, for
support has come in from all sides,
time one of the most popular, works in this ' It is exclusively confined to water-
year's Exhibition of the "Secession." Quite deli- colours, and it is to be hoped that this time the
cate and subdued in tone, its effect is never- Antwerp public, so long averse to this kind of
theless in no way weak, but powerful and strik- painting, will at last understand that results quite
ing to a degree. The ensemble is altogether as satisfactory as those produced by oils may be
excellent both in technique and in colouring, par- obtained by this medium. An important series of
ticularly clever being the juxtaposition of the two exhibits of the French school is displayed,
whites—that of the dress, and that of the birch -
MUJNICH.—Sommerabend ("A Sum-
mer's Evening"), the picture by ~1| "v \
Ludwig Herterich (illustrated I W
upon page 57), was one of the 1
most poetical, and at the same 9
Now that the rearrangement of the
pictures in the Musee de Bruxellcs
is completed to the satisfaction of all
concerned, it is time to suggest a
similar course of action with regard
to the sculpture collection, which
has lately been enriched by several
works of great value. Foremost
among these additions is a life-size
marble figure by M. Paul Dubois of
Brussels, representing a lady of the
present day in ball-dress, seated, with
a closed fan in her lap (see page 56).
M. Paul Dubois, a pupil of M.
Charles Vander Stappen, has, like
his master, a strongly developed
sense of the decorative in art. He
has produced several things in tin
and in copper—vases, candelabra,
sugar-holders, &c. — of extremely
graceful outline. But his chief and
most characteristic successes have
been in his treatment of women's
dress of to-day. This is no doubt
due in a measure to the fact that, as
a " society man," he has had constant
opportunities of studying the world
he knows and lives in. And in this
respect he differs completely from
certain artists, who, after a course of
" classic " study—as a matter of duty
—are now, for the same reason,
devoting themselves to the "modern "
{See Vienna Studio-Talk) or the "socialistic," simply because
PORTRAIT BY LEOPOLD HOROWITZ
58