DOI Heft:
No. 71 (february 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19231#0071
Studio- Talk
"TREES OF THE FOREST" BY J. SALVANA
(See Sydney Studio- Talk)
BRUSSELS.—A novel idea has just been
most successfully realised in Brussels.
By way of celebrating the professional
jubilee of Dr. He'ger, his old pupils
decided to decorate in his honour the
lecture theatre at the Institut Solvay, and for this
purpose they commissioned M. Crespin, who has
carried out the work in his usual clever and re-
sourceful manner. He has chosen a colour scheme
of green and brown tints, and his line effects are
based on floral and geometrical models. Above
the Professor's seat is a bas-relief by M. Dillens :
Physiology, personified by an aged man noting the
pulsations of the heart (page 64). Over the doors
are two scrolls with the legends, " Experientia fides
nostra " and "Veritas sufirema /ex." In other parts
of the hall are displayed five more cartouches with in-
scriptions of names and dates, tracing the evolution
of physiological science from the days of Pytha-
goras to those of Helmholtz; and the scheme of
ornamentation extends to the ceilings, the door-
frames, and the windows. It is to be hoped this
most happy and original idea may be emulated by
other art-loving students.
M. Gabriel Mourey has been delivering a course
of lectures on " Decorative Art " before large and
appreciative audiences in Brussels (at the Cercle
Artistique), Antwerp, Ghent, and Liege.
" THAIS" IVORY STATUETTE BY G. DEVREESE
6l
"TREES OF THE FOREST" BY J. SALVANA
(See Sydney Studio- Talk)
BRUSSELS.—A novel idea has just been
most successfully realised in Brussels.
By way of celebrating the professional
jubilee of Dr. He'ger, his old pupils
decided to decorate in his honour the
lecture theatre at the Institut Solvay, and for this
purpose they commissioned M. Crespin, who has
carried out the work in his usual clever and re-
sourceful manner. He has chosen a colour scheme
of green and brown tints, and his line effects are
based on floral and geometrical models. Above
the Professor's seat is a bas-relief by M. Dillens :
Physiology, personified by an aged man noting the
pulsations of the heart (page 64). Over the doors
are two scrolls with the legends, " Experientia fides
nostra " and "Veritas sufirema /ex." In other parts
of the hall are displayed five more cartouches with in-
scriptions of names and dates, tracing the evolution
of physiological science from the days of Pytha-
goras to those of Helmholtz; and the scheme of
ornamentation extends to the ceilings, the door-
frames, and the windows. It is to be hoped this
most happy and original idea may be emulated by
other art-loving students.
M. Gabriel Mourey has been delivering a course
of lectures on " Decorative Art " before large and
appreciative audiences in Brussels (at the Cercle
Artistique), Antwerp, Ghent, and Liege.
" THAIS" IVORY STATUETTE BY G. DEVREESE
6l