DOI Heft:
No. 47 (February, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0071
Studio- Talk
l'ORTRAIT BY LEOPOLD
(See Vienna Studio- Talk)
they fancy they must do it to be " in the swim."
Needless to say they are foredoomed to failure in
whatever branch of art they undertake.
M. Paul Dubois is just completing one of the
columns intended for the decoration of the Brussels
Botanical Gardens. It is eight metres high, and
the base is adorned with life-size figures representing
the four Elements. He is also at work on a delicate
piece of low-relief—a standing figure of a woman in
the dress of to-day. In addition to this he has
in hand, and approaching completion, numerous
other works of a varied character, such as busts,
medals, &c, and I hope an opportunity will
occur for me to deal with these in your columns
upon some future occasion. F. K.
60
VIENNA. — Last year
Hungary celebrated the
millennium of her con-
stitution, and in honour
of the event a great
national Exhibition was held, which
embraced all branches of the
country's industries and arts, a pro-
minent feature of the latter section
being a pavilion set apart for the
works of living artists, amongst the
most eminent of whom must be
counted Leopold Horowitz, several
of whose paintings are illustrated
here.
Born in 1S39, Horowitz com-
menced his early studies at the Im-
perial Academy in Vienna, and
passed thence to Munich and Paris,
and eventually settled for a few years
in Warsaw. Here the first period of
his success began. The characteris-
tic and pathetic rites which the poor
H Polish Jews perform in their syna-
gogues on high feast days gave him
the idea for his picture, Mourning
Rites of the Jeivs on the Day of the
Devastation of Je?-usa/e?n, which
created so great a sensation that he
soon became the favourite painter of
the Polish aristocracy. The artist,
however, soon realised that the ele-
" —1 gant and lively city in which he lived
„„„„ could not afford him that intimate
HOROWITZ
intercourse with the great art centres
which he felt to be a necessity, and
he therefore went to Berlin for some
years, then to Buda Pest, and finally settled per-
manently in Vienna.
The full length portrait of the Emperor Francis
Joseph (a portion of which is reproduced on page
59) was painted expressly for presentation to the
colonel and officers of the English Life Guards,
of which regiment his Majesty is Honorary
Colonel. It has been executed by Mr. Horowitz
in a quiet and stately manner. In order to prevent
the glare of the vivid scarlet of the uniform
weakening the effect of the physiognomy, the artist
acted upon the proverb that two negatives make a
positive and attenuated the red of the tunic by
steeping the whole picture in red. The background
gleams in dark red, and the drapery covering the
l'ORTRAIT BY LEOPOLD
(See Vienna Studio- Talk)
they fancy they must do it to be " in the swim."
Needless to say they are foredoomed to failure in
whatever branch of art they undertake.
M. Paul Dubois is just completing one of the
columns intended for the decoration of the Brussels
Botanical Gardens. It is eight metres high, and
the base is adorned with life-size figures representing
the four Elements. He is also at work on a delicate
piece of low-relief—a standing figure of a woman in
the dress of to-day. In addition to this he has
in hand, and approaching completion, numerous
other works of a varied character, such as busts,
medals, &c, and I hope an opportunity will
occur for me to deal with these in your columns
upon some future occasion. F. K.
60
VIENNA. — Last year
Hungary celebrated the
millennium of her con-
stitution, and in honour
of the event a great
national Exhibition was held, which
embraced all branches of the
country's industries and arts, a pro-
minent feature of the latter section
being a pavilion set apart for the
works of living artists, amongst the
most eminent of whom must be
counted Leopold Horowitz, several
of whose paintings are illustrated
here.
Born in 1S39, Horowitz com-
menced his early studies at the Im-
perial Academy in Vienna, and
passed thence to Munich and Paris,
and eventually settled for a few years
in Warsaw. Here the first period of
his success began. The characteris-
tic and pathetic rites which the poor
H Polish Jews perform in their syna-
gogues on high feast days gave him
the idea for his picture, Mourning
Rites of the Jeivs on the Day of the
Devastation of Je?-usa/e?n, which
created so great a sensation that he
soon became the favourite painter of
the Polish aristocracy. The artist,
however, soon realised that the ele-
" —1 gant and lively city in which he lived
„„„„ could not afford him that intimate
HOROWITZ
intercourse with the great art centres
which he felt to be a necessity, and
he therefore went to Berlin for some
years, then to Buda Pest, and finally settled per-
manently in Vienna.
The full length portrait of the Emperor Francis
Joseph (a portion of which is reproduced on page
59) was painted expressly for presentation to the
colonel and officers of the English Life Guards,
of which regiment his Majesty is Honorary
Colonel. It has been executed by Mr. Horowitz
in a quiet and stately manner. In order to prevent
the glare of the vivid scarlet of the uniform
weakening the effect of the physiognomy, the artist
acted upon the proverb that two negatives make a
positive and attenuated the red of the tunic by
steeping the whole picture in red. The background
gleams in dark red, and the drapery covering the