DOI issue:
No. 60 (March, 1898)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0144
Studio- Talk
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POTTERY BY SCHMUZ-BAUDISS
Matteis. He has all an artist's pride in his work, he will probably have to give up his painting
" I would defy any one to separate the modern for this. Already, at this date, he can barely make
work from the ancient in those windows," he the vases, &c, as fast as there are buyers for them.
said. " Even I who put them up can scarcely -
tell where the old work ends and mine begins." His ornaments are not painted on the vases, but
Altogether Prof, de Matteis, with his family, his are cut with a knife, somewhat after the fashion of
enthusiasm, the completeness of his workshops, cameos, after the body of the reddish-clay vase has
carries with him an old-world, Vasarian flavour been covered with a thin coating of white clay,
which is most piquant to one stepping into his Thus, before glazing, he has already employed two
studio from modern everyday life. different tints. For further tinting he uses princi-
I. M. A. pally chemical combinations of his own, and has
succeeded in producing some excellent, rich effects.
RESDEN.—Arnold has recently had Thanks are due to Mr. Alexander Koch, of Darm-
a good show of Schmuz-Baudiss's stadt, for permission to reproduce several examples
pottery. The artist's endeavours of Mr. Schmuz-Baudiss's pottery,
in this line are fully equal to H. W. S.
those that signalise the
pottery revivals in Belgium and Paris.
He has many good ideas which enable
him to deviate from the trodden paths
of the old workmen. Yet his new forms
and his new manner of ornament are not
fanciful; they are developed strictly on
the basis of the principles that determine
the manufacture of pottery. Schmuz-
Baudiss is really a painter, and came to
make vases quite by accident. Two
summers ago he went to a little country
town, as usual, for open-air study, but
was kept indoors through stress of ■
weather, and was prevented from
doing any work at all. In order, there-
fore, to amuse himself, he stepped into
the shop of the village potter, and from
him took his first lessons in manipulat-
ing the wheel, just to kill time. What
was at first a freak came very soon to
be a profession, and, like Louis Rhead,
who had to give up painting for over two
years on account of his Poster work, pottery i by schmuz-
i
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POTTERY BY SCHMUZ-BAUDISS
Matteis. He has all an artist's pride in his work, he will probably have to give up his painting
" I would defy any one to separate the modern for this. Already, at this date, he can barely make
work from the ancient in those windows," he the vases, &c, as fast as there are buyers for them.
said. " Even I who put them up can scarcely -
tell where the old work ends and mine begins." His ornaments are not painted on the vases, but
Altogether Prof, de Matteis, with his family, his are cut with a knife, somewhat after the fashion of
enthusiasm, the completeness of his workshops, cameos, after the body of the reddish-clay vase has
carries with him an old-world, Vasarian flavour been covered with a thin coating of white clay,
which is most piquant to one stepping into his Thus, before glazing, he has already employed two
studio from modern everyday life. different tints. For further tinting he uses princi-
I. M. A. pally chemical combinations of his own, and has
succeeded in producing some excellent, rich effects.
RESDEN.—Arnold has recently had Thanks are due to Mr. Alexander Koch, of Darm-
a good show of Schmuz-Baudiss's stadt, for permission to reproduce several examples
pottery. The artist's endeavours of Mr. Schmuz-Baudiss's pottery,
in this line are fully equal to H. W. S.
those that signalise the
pottery revivals in Belgium and Paris.
He has many good ideas which enable
him to deviate from the trodden paths
of the old workmen. Yet his new forms
and his new manner of ornament are not
fanciful; they are developed strictly on
the basis of the principles that determine
the manufacture of pottery. Schmuz-
Baudiss is really a painter, and came to
make vases quite by accident. Two
summers ago he went to a little country
town, as usual, for open-air study, but
was kept indoors through stress of ■
weather, and was prevented from
doing any work at all. In order, there-
fore, to amuse himself, he stepped into
the shop of the village potter, and from
him took his first lessons in manipulat-
ing the wheel, just to kill time. What
was at first a freak came very soon to
be a profession, and, like Louis Rhead,
who had to give up painting for over two
years on account of his Poster work, pottery i by schmuz-
i