DOI Heft:
No. 61 (April, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0226
Studio- Talk
MURAL PAINTINGS BY OTTO FISCHER
instead. Near at hand, however, private enterprise in keeping with the arcadian character of the
has made a laudable attempt to mitigate the evil, scene.
The " Imperial Palace Buildings," as they are H. W. S.
called, were erected at extraordinary expense, and
with the outspoken object of producing an archi- REFELD.—After the death of the
tectural monument over and above a merely prac- m Emperor William I., the town of
tical building, although no other than ordinary I Crefeld decided to honour the
business interests are involved. The architects, \^ A memory of that monarch by the
Schilling and Graebner, have tried to rejuvenate erection of a museum. The build-
the style of decoration peculiar to the Dresden ing was finished in the summer of 1897, and the
Barock and Rococo buildings that are now opening ceremony has recently taken place. Since
vanishing so fast. 1883 there has existed a good collection of pic-
- tures and examples of industrial art, which has
The most important decorations inside of the now found a thoroughly worthy resting-place,
building consist of some mural paintings in the The inauguration was celebrated by an exhibition
principal hall, by Otto Fischer, here reproduced, of paintings, sculpture, china and pottery. Ex-
There is an unmistakable largeness of style hibits by German artists were supplemented by
apparent in the simplicity with which these com- others from England, France, Belgium, Holland,
positions are conceived, in the absence of all Italy and Denmark. Walter Crane, William De
diverting detail and of all that is anecdotal. They Morgan and Macaulay Stevenson were amongst
have reminded more than one critic of the spirit the British artists who sent contributions. Several
in which Puvis de Chavannes executes similar works were purchased for the museum's picture
subjects. The colours are very light and cheer- gallery, of which the most remarkable are perhaps
ful, a kind of unobtrusive pkin-air, delightfully Walter Leistikow's Dammerung in Ost Friesla?id,
203
MURAL PAINTINGS BY OTTO FISCHER
instead. Near at hand, however, private enterprise in keeping with the arcadian character of the
has made a laudable attempt to mitigate the evil, scene.
The " Imperial Palace Buildings," as they are H. W. S.
called, were erected at extraordinary expense, and
with the outspoken object of producing an archi- REFELD.—After the death of the
tectural monument over and above a merely prac- m Emperor William I., the town of
tical building, although no other than ordinary I Crefeld decided to honour the
business interests are involved. The architects, \^ A memory of that monarch by the
Schilling and Graebner, have tried to rejuvenate erection of a museum. The build-
the style of decoration peculiar to the Dresden ing was finished in the summer of 1897, and the
Barock and Rococo buildings that are now opening ceremony has recently taken place. Since
vanishing so fast. 1883 there has existed a good collection of pic-
- tures and examples of industrial art, which has
The most important decorations inside of the now found a thoroughly worthy resting-place,
building consist of some mural paintings in the The inauguration was celebrated by an exhibition
principal hall, by Otto Fischer, here reproduced, of paintings, sculpture, china and pottery. Ex-
There is an unmistakable largeness of style hibits by German artists were supplemented by
apparent in the simplicity with which these com- others from England, France, Belgium, Holland,
positions are conceived, in the absence of all Italy and Denmark. Walter Crane, William De
diverting detail and of all that is anecdotal. They Morgan and Macaulay Stevenson were amongst
have reminded more than one critic of the spirit the British artists who sent contributions. Several
in which Puvis de Chavannes executes similar works were purchased for the museum's picture
subjects. The colours are very light and cheer- gallery, of which the most remarkable are perhaps
ful, a kind of unobtrusive pkin-air, delightfully Walter Leistikow's Dammerung in Ost Friesla?id,
203