DOI Heft:
No. 55 (October, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18390#0076
Studio- Talk
'"NEAR TACHAU " FROM A PAINTING BY FRANZ RUMPLER
gramme are: a separate exhibition building, and through the Academy (where he still holds a pro-
the foundation ot a " Gallerie Zeitgenossischer fessorship), and came into contact with some of
Meister." The result remains to be seen. Nu- the best artists of the day. Makart took a keen
merically, the younger artists here are for the interest in him, though there seems to have been
present decidedly weaker than their colleagues little or no real artistic affinity between the two.
either in Munich or Berlin. Since personality, Most of Rumpler's early associates and friends
however, and not numbers alone, make up the have since passed away; but in the meantime he
strength and significance of an artistic association, has been studying incessantly for about twelve
and as there are certainly strong talents both as years, leading a retired life, and, above all, never
regards painting and sculpture among the members exhibiting in public,
of the new " Verein,"the near future may be looked
forward to with interest. Like most genuine artists "of every time and
- clime," Rumpler, whether painting figures or land-
Keeping aloof from the clamour of party-strife, a scape, stands firmly, "with heart, soul, and foot,"
patient worker in the quiet seclusion of his studio, upon his native soil. The charming Westbdhmer-
half a philosopher and half a poet, Franz Rumpler, land, with its softly undulating ground, woody hills,
illustrations of whose work are given herewith, was from out of which here and there an old high
born in 1848. He is the son of a wood-carver in battlement, castle tower, or village church spire
Tachau, a little provincial town of Western project toward the sky, sometimes in dark sil-
Bohemia, and his talent chanced to be discovered houette, sometimes glittering merrily in the bright
one day by that most untiring and disinterested sunshine breaking out among the clouds; then all
art critic, Moritz Thausing, who forthwith brought the gorgeously coloured costumes of the native
him to Vienna. Here Rumpler made his way peasant women with their marked preference for
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'"NEAR TACHAU " FROM A PAINTING BY FRANZ RUMPLER
gramme are: a separate exhibition building, and through the Academy (where he still holds a pro-
the foundation ot a " Gallerie Zeitgenossischer fessorship), and came into contact with some of
Meister." The result remains to be seen. Nu- the best artists of the day. Makart took a keen
merically, the younger artists here are for the interest in him, though there seems to have been
present decidedly weaker than their colleagues little or no real artistic affinity between the two.
either in Munich or Berlin. Since personality, Most of Rumpler's early associates and friends
however, and not numbers alone, make up the have since passed away; but in the meantime he
strength and significance of an artistic association, has been studying incessantly for about twelve
and as there are certainly strong talents both as years, leading a retired life, and, above all, never
regards painting and sculpture among the members exhibiting in public,
of the new " Verein,"the near future may be looked
forward to with interest. Like most genuine artists "of every time and
- clime," Rumpler, whether painting figures or land-
Keeping aloof from the clamour of party-strife, a scape, stands firmly, "with heart, soul, and foot,"
patient worker in the quiet seclusion of his studio, upon his native soil. The charming Westbdhmer-
half a philosopher and half a poet, Franz Rumpler, land, with its softly undulating ground, woody hills,
illustrations of whose work are given herewith, was from out of which here and there an old high
born in 1848. He is the son of a wood-carver in battlement, castle tower, or village church spire
Tachau, a little provincial town of Western project toward the sky, sometimes in dark sil-
Bohemia, and his talent chanced to be discovered houette, sometimes glittering merrily in the bright
one day by that most untiring and disinterested sunshine breaking out among the clouds; then all
art critic, Moritz Thausing, who forthwith brought the gorgeously coloured costumes of the native
him to Vienna. Here Rumpler made his way peasant women with their marked preference for
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