DOI issue:
No. 70 (January 1899)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0319
Studio- Talk
series of drawings and paintings by Max Lieber-
mann enabled the student to note the development
of that skilful master's style from his earliest efforts
to his later productions.
I cannot refrain from adding here that this Salon
also rejoices in a charming reading-room, of which
H. Van der Velde was the designer. In its com-
bined dignity and simplicity it forms the most
delightful piece of work by that architect I have
hitherto seen.
G. G.
HAMBURG.—Two examples of leather-
work by G. Hulbe, illustrated on
pages 288 and 289, are worthy of
attention. Indeed, in some respects
the figure panel is one of the most
beautiful examples of the revived craft that has yet
been produced. The grace and charm of the figure,
and its well managed detail, are of a sort that is
rare in leather-work, where mediocrity of drawing
and design is often forgiven for the sake of the
fine craft devoted to its execution. The arrange-
ment of this figure, were it a life-sized panel in
coloured bas-relief, or an easel-painting, could not
be bettered, and it is excellently planned for the
material in which it is carried out. In the bound
book is the same admirable disposition of pattern.
Mr. Hulbe has the instinct for proportion—that all-
important quality in decoration. He knows how
to manage very elaborate detail, as the figure-panel
shows ; but he can also be simple and can sub-
ordinate his modelled leather to its right place when
he is preparing for metal work in high relief as a
final adornment. In this book there is no rivalry
between the simpler planes of the leather and the
bold modelling of the metal, while bythe plain border
which surrounds the panel, and the undecorated
back, he enriches his ornament, and reveals that
power of leaving out which is one of the essentials
of fine decoration. These two examples should
inspire leather-workers to more ambitious flights
than have satisfied the average worker hitherto.
Mr. Christopher Dresser asks us to state that the
design for cretonne, illustrated at the bottom of
page 109 of the November number, is the property
of Messrs. Newman, Smith & Newman.
287
series of drawings and paintings by Max Lieber-
mann enabled the student to note the development
of that skilful master's style from his earliest efforts
to his later productions.
I cannot refrain from adding here that this Salon
also rejoices in a charming reading-room, of which
H. Van der Velde was the designer. In its com-
bined dignity and simplicity it forms the most
delightful piece of work by that architect I have
hitherto seen.
G. G.
HAMBURG.—Two examples of leather-
work by G. Hulbe, illustrated on
pages 288 and 289, are worthy of
attention. Indeed, in some respects
the figure panel is one of the most
beautiful examples of the revived craft that has yet
been produced. The grace and charm of the figure,
and its well managed detail, are of a sort that is
rare in leather-work, where mediocrity of drawing
and design is often forgiven for the sake of the
fine craft devoted to its execution. The arrange-
ment of this figure, were it a life-sized panel in
coloured bas-relief, or an easel-painting, could not
be bettered, and it is excellently planned for the
material in which it is carried out. In the bound
book is the same admirable disposition of pattern.
Mr. Hulbe has the instinct for proportion—that all-
important quality in decoration. He knows how
to manage very elaborate detail, as the figure-panel
shows ; but he can also be simple and can sub-
ordinate his modelled leather to its right place when
he is preparing for metal work in high relief as a
final adornment. In this book there is no rivalry
between the simpler planes of the leather and the
bold modelling of the metal, while bythe plain border
which surrounds the panel, and the undecorated
back, he enriches his ornament, and reveals that
power of leaving out which is one of the essentials
of fine decoration. These two examples should
inspire leather-workers to more ambitious flights
than have satisfied the average worker hitherto.
Mr. Christopher Dresser asks us to state that the
design for cretonne, illustrated at the bottom of
page 109 of the November number, is the property
of Messrs. Newman, Smith & Newman.
287