DOI Heft:
No. 49 (April, 1897)
DOI Heft:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0208
Studio-Talk
would seem to regard these Exhibitions
as designed first and foremost for the
sale of the works displayed, and there-
fore they would apply no very hard
restrictions as to the admission of pic-
tures, at least in so far as concerns the
supporters of their own old-fashioned
methods.
The candidate for the presidency put
forward by this second group, was Franz
von Lenbach, who still enjoys the repu-
tation of being the foremost portrait-
painter in Germany. There is some-
thing of irony in the fact that this artist,
than whom there is no stronger or more
zealous champion of the aristocratic
principle in matters of art, should have
been raised to the dignity of president
of the " Kiinstlergenossenschaft," and
become the director-in-chief of the Inter-
national Exhibition, by the suffrages of
this same democratic majority! And
the humour of the situation gains in
point from the circumstance that Len-
bach, while on the one hand resolutely
opposed to the real modern art tendency,
root and branch, has on the other a
wholesome contempt for the present
commercial system of exhibiting works
of art. _
It is to be regretted that, owing partly
to want of space in the Glass Palace,
and partly to the somewhat narrow and
short-sighted view taken by many of our
modern artists, the ever-growing effort
UNICH.—Great interest is already to impart to German applied art that genuinely
being manifested in the Inter- aesthetic impress which characterises English and
national Art Exhibition, which is French work of this kind, will find little or no
to be opened here on June r. recognition in the Exhibition. Readers of The
The " Secession " and the Studio have recently had brought to their notice
" Kiinstlergenossenschaft " will once more be one notable example of this feeling—which at the
united under the same roof in the Glaspalast; but present time constitutes the nourishing element of
the last-named association has been split up into our art life—in the embroideries of the sculptor,
two groups, which, however, to all outward appear- Hermann Obrist; other artists too are displaying
ance, will still be in harmony under the one com- a similarly active interest in the applied arts, and
prehensive title—"The Society of Artists." are striving to create something really new, or at
-— least something independent of the old patterns.
One of these two sections has adopted the Thus, for instance, the Berlin etcher, Koepping, has
more severe and eclectic principles of the Seces- produced some ornamental glass-ware, which for
sionists, with regard to the election of the hanging originality of form and splendour of colour, is
committee, the choice of pictures, &c.; while the by many people considered equal to the old
other, representing the more democratic element, Venetian glass. Then again an artist in Karlsruhe,
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would seem to regard these Exhibitions
as designed first and foremost for the
sale of the works displayed, and there-
fore they would apply no very hard
restrictions as to the admission of pic-
tures, at least in so far as concerns the
supporters of their own old-fashioned
methods.
The candidate for the presidency put
forward by this second group, was Franz
von Lenbach, who still enjoys the repu-
tation of being the foremost portrait-
painter in Germany. There is some-
thing of irony in the fact that this artist,
than whom there is no stronger or more
zealous champion of the aristocratic
principle in matters of art, should have
been raised to the dignity of president
of the " Kiinstlergenossenschaft," and
become the director-in-chief of the Inter-
national Exhibition, by the suffrages of
this same democratic majority! And
the humour of the situation gains in
point from the circumstance that Len-
bach, while on the one hand resolutely
opposed to the real modern art tendency,
root and branch, has on the other a
wholesome contempt for the present
commercial system of exhibiting works
of art. _
It is to be regretted that, owing partly
to want of space in the Glass Palace,
and partly to the somewhat narrow and
short-sighted view taken by many of our
modern artists, the ever-growing effort
UNICH.—Great interest is already to impart to German applied art that genuinely
being manifested in the Inter- aesthetic impress which characterises English and
national Art Exhibition, which is French work of this kind, will find little or no
to be opened here on June r. recognition in the Exhibition. Readers of The
The " Secession " and the Studio have recently had brought to their notice
" Kiinstlergenossenschaft " will once more be one notable example of this feeling—which at the
united under the same roof in the Glaspalast; but present time constitutes the nourishing element of
the last-named association has been split up into our art life—in the embroideries of the sculptor,
two groups, which, however, to all outward appear- Hermann Obrist; other artists too are displaying
ance, will still be in harmony under the one com- a similarly active interest in the applied arts, and
prehensive title—"The Society of Artists." are striving to create something really new, or at
-— least something independent of the old patterns.
One of these two sections has adopted the Thus, for instance, the Berlin etcher, Koepping, has
more severe and eclectic principles of the Seces- produced some ornamental glass-ware, which for
sionists, with regard to the election of the hanging originality of form and splendour of colour, is
committee, the choice of pictures, &c.; while the by many people considered equal to the old
other, representing the more democratic element, Venetian glass. Then again an artist in Karlsruhe,
200
JEWELLERY ■ FROM DESIGNS BY HERMANN H1RZEI
(See Berlin S/udio-Talk)
M