DOI Heft:
No. 73 (April 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19231#0228
Studio-Talk
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" A GOOD FRIDAY VISION BY EDMUND KAEZIANG
unevenness. But his Cow has been splendidly make those visions real on his canvas for the less
modelled and well painted, while his Moonlight on highly gifted to enjoy. There is, for instance,
Snow and Windmill axe two pieces of thoroughly something dream-like and weird in his Cloister-
good work. M. ruinen (or Ruined Convent). A Good Friday
Vision by the same artist illustrates the legend
UDA-PEST.—Continuing my notes of current in Rome that at daybreak on Good Friday
last month relative to the Nagybanya morning the Saviour and the Virgin Mary may be
exhibition, I must especially mention seen in the clouds. Looking at these two paintings
two painters who seem likely to one cannot help feeling convinced that their author
achieve considerable reputation out- has a great career before him. O. B.
side Hungary. The first of these is Baron
Ladislaus Meduyanezky, who may justly be called
a leader amongst the Impressionists, and who has 'T "V ASLE. — Does Switzerland possess a
attained to the highest excellence as a landscape i ^9 national art? The answer to this
painter. His recently exhibited Abendddmmerung , question must be in the negative.
(or Twilight), a sea-scape bathed in the violet glow I Italian, French, and German artists
of the setting sun, though not perhaps quite his reside in Switzerland, but an exclusive
best work, is most attractive on account of the national Swiss art does not exist, for Switzerland
beauty of its colouring and aerial perspective, and represents not a nation, but rather a political fede-
also for the poetic sentiment with which it is ration. It is for this reason that, when we wander
instinct— characteristics such as defy reproduction through the galleries of the Art Exhibition at Basle,
in prosaic black and white. we appear to be visiting some international show,
- _ . so varied are the impressions experienced.
The second is Edmund Kaeziang, an artist of _
intensely high-strung temperament, nervous to the The most interesting section is the Italian one,
very finger-tips, yet keeping his vivid imagination and in this department Segantini is pre-eminent.
well under control—a true seer of visions, able to Fruits of Love is the title of one of his pictures_a
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" A GOOD FRIDAY VISION BY EDMUND KAEZIANG
unevenness. But his Cow has been splendidly make those visions real on his canvas for the less
modelled and well painted, while his Moonlight on highly gifted to enjoy. There is, for instance,
Snow and Windmill axe two pieces of thoroughly something dream-like and weird in his Cloister-
good work. M. ruinen (or Ruined Convent). A Good Friday
Vision by the same artist illustrates the legend
UDA-PEST.—Continuing my notes of current in Rome that at daybreak on Good Friday
last month relative to the Nagybanya morning the Saviour and the Virgin Mary may be
exhibition, I must especially mention seen in the clouds. Looking at these two paintings
two painters who seem likely to one cannot help feeling convinced that their author
achieve considerable reputation out- has a great career before him. O. B.
side Hungary. The first of these is Baron
Ladislaus Meduyanezky, who may justly be called
a leader amongst the Impressionists, and who has 'T "V ASLE. — Does Switzerland possess a
attained to the highest excellence as a landscape i ^9 national art? The answer to this
painter. His recently exhibited Abendddmmerung , question must be in the negative.
(or Twilight), a sea-scape bathed in the violet glow I Italian, French, and German artists
of the setting sun, though not perhaps quite his reside in Switzerland, but an exclusive
best work, is most attractive on account of the national Swiss art does not exist, for Switzerland
beauty of its colouring and aerial perspective, and represents not a nation, but rather a political fede-
also for the poetic sentiment with which it is ration. It is for this reason that, when we wander
instinct— characteristics such as defy reproduction through the galleries of the Art Exhibition at Basle,
in prosaic black and white. we appear to be visiting some international show,
- _ . so varied are the impressions experienced.
The second is Edmund Kaeziang, an artist of _
intensely high-strung temperament, nervous to the The most interesting section is the Italian one,
very finger-tips, yet keeping his vivid imagination and in this department Segantini is pre-eminent.
well under control—a true seer of visions, able to Fruits of Love is the title of one of his pictures_a
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