DOI Heft:
No. 53 (August, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0226
Studio- Talk
—there made very little impression. It was quite
a surprise to see them again, or rather to see them
properly for the first time, at the Cercle Artistique
in Brussels. About the date of the Antwerp
Exhibition The Studio published an article detail-
ing this remarkable revival of a long-neglected
form of sculpture. _
This year the Tervueren Colonial section of the
Brussels Exhibition has been arranged with every
regard for art, and the Secretaire d'Etat, M. Van
Eetvelde, together with Commander Liebrechts and
Lieutenant Masui, cannot be too highly compli-
mented on the success of their plans.
They have generously distributed the work of
ornamenting one of the halls in the Tervueren
palace among the numerous Belgian sculptors;
and for the decoration of all the apartments in the
building they have relied on the best of our
architects and decorative artists, among the colla-
borators being MM. Crespin, Hankar, Hobe,
Serrurier-Bovy, and Wytsman. And then the
native groups placed in the Salle D'Ethnographie
have been composed and carried out by artists such
as MM. J. Dillens, Ch. Samuel, and J. De Rudder.
Without going into minute detail over the de-
corations of the various apartments, an excellent
impression of which is afforded by M. Alexandre's
beautiful photographs, here reproduced, I may draw
attention to the care that has been shown in devising
forms matching those of the arms and implements
displayed, and in utilising in the most artistic
manner the materials employed—woods and hang-
ings of all sorts.
In the hall set apart for the chryselephantine
sculpture the panels are adorned with large em-
broideries, the work of Madame de Rudder,
surrounded very skilfully with pieces of Kassai
material. The furnishing of this hall is also very
sumptuous. All the stands and supports of the
numerous exhibits are in Congo wood, very in-
teresting in its many varieties.
Among the most remarkable productions may
be noted a very fine Christ upon the Cross, by
Constantin Meunier; UAllegretto, by J. Dillens,
already exhibited at Antwerp ; a little group by
Rombaux, beautifully executed; the graceful work
by Ch. Samuel; De Tombay's large figure, Homme-
Dieu au Tombeau, in ivory and wood; St. Michel,
SALLE d'ethnographie at the brussels EXHIBITION
20i
—there made very little impression. It was quite
a surprise to see them again, or rather to see them
properly for the first time, at the Cercle Artistique
in Brussels. About the date of the Antwerp
Exhibition The Studio published an article detail-
ing this remarkable revival of a long-neglected
form of sculpture. _
This year the Tervueren Colonial section of the
Brussels Exhibition has been arranged with every
regard for art, and the Secretaire d'Etat, M. Van
Eetvelde, together with Commander Liebrechts and
Lieutenant Masui, cannot be too highly compli-
mented on the success of their plans.
They have generously distributed the work of
ornamenting one of the halls in the Tervueren
palace among the numerous Belgian sculptors;
and for the decoration of all the apartments in the
building they have relied on the best of our
architects and decorative artists, among the colla-
borators being MM. Crespin, Hankar, Hobe,
Serrurier-Bovy, and Wytsman. And then the
native groups placed in the Salle D'Ethnographie
have been composed and carried out by artists such
as MM. J. Dillens, Ch. Samuel, and J. De Rudder.
Without going into minute detail over the de-
corations of the various apartments, an excellent
impression of which is afforded by M. Alexandre's
beautiful photographs, here reproduced, I may draw
attention to the care that has been shown in devising
forms matching those of the arms and implements
displayed, and in utilising in the most artistic
manner the materials employed—woods and hang-
ings of all sorts.
In the hall set apart for the chryselephantine
sculpture the panels are adorned with large em-
broideries, the work of Madame de Rudder,
surrounded very skilfully with pieces of Kassai
material. The furnishing of this hall is also very
sumptuous. All the stands and supports of the
numerous exhibits are in Congo wood, very in-
teresting in its many varieties.
Among the most remarkable productions may
be noted a very fine Christ upon the Cross, by
Constantin Meunier; UAllegretto, by J. Dillens,
already exhibited at Antwerp ; a little group by
Rombaux, beautifully executed; the graceful work
by Ch. Samuel; De Tombay's large figure, Homme-
Dieu au Tombeau, in ivory and wood; St. Michel,
SALLE d'ethnographie at the brussels EXHIBITION
20i