DOI Heft:
No. 50 (May, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0274
Studio-Talk
and here one has an oppor-
tunity of becoming really
acquainted with an artist's
manner and personality; for
with no crowded roomful of
works to tire the eye, one is
able to concentrate atten-
tion on any one production.
And with one's sense of
aesthetic pleasure unham-
pered the spectator is able
to form a much broader
judgment than would other-
wise be the case. It is
possible to understand and
appreciate the point of view
from which this or that
particular work has been
conceived in proportion to
the degree of success
achieved in the realisation,
and one can at once
appraise the picture at its
proper value.
FROM AN ETCHING
A few of the more inte-
r.-hiiiiu el tlu-M' nunuTous
displays may be noted. In
the first place a word is
due to the work of a young
Munich sculptor, a pupil of
Riimann, Hermann Hahn
t^Bf/mmK/l^BKB^U^MMnlVmBi^Kii name> which attracted
^mr if VtVnHrr^mSnll "it"tt"lr K \"\aM^|, much notice at the last
Exhibition of the Secession,
BY ZORN , j-
by its extraordinary power.
In the first place there is a
the King, Prince Eugen, who is one of our most pair of portrait busts, and beneath them a double
original and sensitive artists. By his side stands as bust of a married couple, the two half-figures, by a
head commissioner the painter Oscar Bjorck, whose bold device of the artist, being joined by the
portrait of Prince Eugen is here reproduced. The hands. The sphere of life in which these sub-
portrait belongs to Stockholm's National Museum. jects move is indicated with great subtlety, in
The other commissioners are F. Boberg (architect); the face of external difficulties, in the shape of
the painters Count von Rosen, Baron G. Ceders- their conventional dress, &c. Equally charm-
trom, R. Bergh, and Zorn; and the sculptor, T. ing, especially as regards the pose, is a bust of
Lundberg. a woman, who is looking out of window, half in
B. M. meditation and half attracted by what is passing
outside. Her chin rests on her right hand, and
ERLIN.—About the end of winter, and the left shoulder is, so to speak, quite effaced, and
shortly before the time for the delivery appears, as it were, in shadow—the whole being a
of the works intended for the big Ex- most delightful piece of foreshortening,
hibitions, some of our best artists -
B
begin to exhibit in little groups at the In several of these works Hahn has treated hair
two regulation galleries—Schulte's and Gurlitt's— with singular effect. He deals with the wavy
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and here one has an oppor-
tunity of becoming really
acquainted with an artist's
manner and personality; for
with no crowded roomful of
works to tire the eye, one is
able to concentrate atten-
tion on any one production.
And with one's sense of
aesthetic pleasure unham-
pered the spectator is able
to form a much broader
judgment than would other-
wise be the case. It is
possible to understand and
appreciate the point of view
from which this or that
particular work has been
conceived in proportion to
the degree of success
achieved in the realisation,
and one can at once
appraise the picture at its
proper value.
FROM AN ETCHING
A few of the more inte-
r.-hiiiiu el tlu-M' nunuTous
displays may be noted. In
the first place a word is
due to the work of a young
Munich sculptor, a pupil of
Riimann, Hermann Hahn
t^Bf/mmK/l^BKB^U^MMnlVmBi^Kii name> which attracted
^mr if VtVnHrr^mSnll "it"tt"lr K \"\aM^|, much notice at the last
Exhibition of the Secession,
BY ZORN , j-
by its extraordinary power.
In the first place there is a
the King, Prince Eugen, who is one of our most pair of portrait busts, and beneath them a double
original and sensitive artists. By his side stands as bust of a married couple, the two half-figures, by a
head commissioner the painter Oscar Bjorck, whose bold device of the artist, being joined by the
portrait of Prince Eugen is here reproduced. The hands. The sphere of life in which these sub-
portrait belongs to Stockholm's National Museum. jects move is indicated with great subtlety, in
The other commissioners are F. Boberg (architect); the face of external difficulties, in the shape of
the painters Count von Rosen, Baron G. Ceders- their conventional dress, &c. Equally charm-
trom, R. Bergh, and Zorn; and the sculptor, T. ing, especially as regards the pose, is a bust of
Lundberg. a woman, who is looking out of window, half in
B. M. meditation and half attracted by what is passing
outside. Her chin rests on her right hand, and
ERLIN.—About the end of winter, and the left shoulder is, so to speak, quite effaced, and
shortly before the time for the delivery appears, as it were, in shadow—the whole being a
of the works intended for the big Ex- most delightful piece of foreshortening,
hibitions, some of our best artists -
B
begin to exhibit in little groups at the In several of these works Hahn has treated hair
two regulation galleries—Schulte's and Gurlitt's— with singular effect. He deals with the wavy
263