DOI issue:
No. 67 (October 1898)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0072
Studio- Talk
photographs reproduced
here show more effectually
than any written descrip-
tion the grace of line and
flexibility of modelling
which mark this clever
artist's work.
A committee has been
formed at Louvain to
arrange an exhibition of
posters. Artists and col-
lectors have been invited
to co-operate in order that
such material may be
collected as will enable
the committee to reconsti-
vase in pewter by paul Dubois tute the history of the
illustrated poster from its
origin. F. K.
bering 1500 works) as compared with previous ex-
hibitions. Concurrently the opinion appears unani- "v ARIS.—Mile. O. Roederstein's picture
mous that more than usual care and skill have been I m Les Trois Freres, reproduced here,"
bestowed upon the hanging of the pictures, and was exhibited at the recent Salon of
upon the provision of a special room for the display I the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts,
of sculpture. H. B. B. As one may see, it is a work of in-
tense expression, and marked with uncommon
BRUSSELS. — A long-called-for reform
has just been accomplished. The
architectural classes at the Brussels
Academy of Fine Arts have been
completely reorganised, and M. Ernest
Acker has been appointed chief professor. A
better choice could not have been made. M.
Acker has not dabbled in that ultra-modernity
which frequently has but an ephemeral success ;
but no one can accuse him of conventionality.
By virtue of his sound knowledge, his pure and
delicate taste, he deserves to be classed among the
foremost of our young Belgian architects, and one
may confidently predict that his teaching will be
sound and valuable.
Of all the Belgian sculptors who, in addition to
their monumental work, have taken up applied art,
the most successful is unquestionably M. Paul
Dubois, of Brussels. His candelabra, salt-cellars,
bon-bon boxes, &c, are at once artistic in appear-
ance and well adapted for everyday use, two qualities
not often found in combination. Moreover, accus-
tomed as he is to studying the beauties of bronze,
and all its possibilities in the way of oxidation, M.
Dubois has sought and found all sorts of effects
obtainable in pewter, the material he affects. The medal by j. c. wienecke
56
photographs reproduced
here show more effectually
than any written descrip-
tion the grace of line and
flexibility of modelling
which mark this clever
artist's work.
A committee has been
formed at Louvain to
arrange an exhibition of
posters. Artists and col-
lectors have been invited
to co-operate in order that
such material may be
collected as will enable
the committee to reconsti-
vase in pewter by paul Dubois tute the history of the
illustrated poster from its
origin. F. K.
bering 1500 works) as compared with previous ex-
hibitions. Concurrently the opinion appears unani- "v ARIS.—Mile. O. Roederstein's picture
mous that more than usual care and skill have been I m Les Trois Freres, reproduced here,"
bestowed upon the hanging of the pictures, and was exhibited at the recent Salon of
upon the provision of a special room for the display I the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts,
of sculpture. H. B. B. As one may see, it is a work of in-
tense expression, and marked with uncommon
BRUSSELS. — A long-called-for reform
has just been accomplished. The
architectural classes at the Brussels
Academy of Fine Arts have been
completely reorganised, and M. Ernest
Acker has been appointed chief professor. A
better choice could not have been made. M.
Acker has not dabbled in that ultra-modernity
which frequently has but an ephemeral success ;
but no one can accuse him of conventionality.
By virtue of his sound knowledge, his pure and
delicate taste, he deserves to be classed among the
foremost of our young Belgian architects, and one
may confidently predict that his teaching will be
sound and valuable.
Of all the Belgian sculptors who, in addition to
their monumental work, have taken up applied art,
the most successful is unquestionably M. Paul
Dubois, of Brussels. His candelabra, salt-cellars,
bon-bon boxes, &c, are at once artistic in appear-
ance and well adapted for everyday use, two qualities
not often found in combination. Moreover, accus-
tomed as he is to studying the beauties of bronze,
and all its possibilities in the way of oxidation, M.
Dubois has sought and found all sorts of effects
obtainable in pewter, the material he affects. The medal by j. c. wienecke
56