DOI Heft:
Nr. 75 (June 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0074
Studio- Talk
“ A FIR FOREST ”
{See Stockholm Studio-Talk)
BY G. FJ^ESTAD
work, from which we may select for special mention
the graceful Figure Tombale by M. J. Le Lalaing.
Other prominent exhibitors are MM. V. Rousseau,
Lagae, Vingotte, Samuel, Dillens, and Lambeaux.
Especially admirable are the three little bronzes by
F. Stuck, the famous Munich artist. This is the
best sculpture in the exhibition.
F. K.
FLORENCE.—Stefano Ussi is generally
known to such as visit the Modern
Gallery of the Florence Accademia as
the author of a large, figure-crammed
canvas representing the expulsion from
Florence of the Duke of Athens. Although
academic enough to modern eyes, the picture
shows in the vitality of its figures evident signs
of the first stirring of recent impressionist feeling.
A replica of the picture still hangs in the artist’s
studio, surrounded by the delicious Oriental
sketches that marked the final break with the old
order and the inauguration of the new.
Ussi was officially appointed to accompany
the Italian Ambassador who concluded the treaty
with the Emperor of Morocco, and, wandering
through the north of Africa, became thoroughly
imbued with the poetry of vast distances, with the
mysterious colouring of the desert, and the weird
and picturesque life of the inhabitants. In addi-
tion to the official pictures of the reception of the
Ambassador at Fez, &c., which already showed a
remarkable loosening of academic bonds, he jotted
down a very great number of impressions, little
pictures, often only a few centimetres square,
replete with life and motion.
Ussi’s sympathy did not stop at the desert itself,
it overflowed to the wild tribes that inhabit it.
Arabs at their powder game riding straight out of
the picture, horsemen galloping in a wild fantasia
across a steppe bright with spring flowers, little
families travelling from place to place like the
Sacred Family of old, Arab encampments whose
inhabitants squat round terrible performing jugglers
-—a thousand different phases and aspects are
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“ A FIR FOREST ”
{See Stockholm Studio-Talk)
BY G. FJ^ESTAD
work, from which we may select for special mention
the graceful Figure Tombale by M. J. Le Lalaing.
Other prominent exhibitors are MM. V. Rousseau,
Lagae, Vingotte, Samuel, Dillens, and Lambeaux.
Especially admirable are the three little bronzes by
F. Stuck, the famous Munich artist. This is the
best sculpture in the exhibition.
F. K.
FLORENCE.—Stefano Ussi is generally
known to such as visit the Modern
Gallery of the Florence Accademia as
the author of a large, figure-crammed
canvas representing the expulsion from
Florence of the Duke of Athens. Although
academic enough to modern eyes, the picture
shows in the vitality of its figures evident signs
of the first stirring of recent impressionist feeling.
A replica of the picture still hangs in the artist’s
studio, surrounded by the delicious Oriental
sketches that marked the final break with the old
order and the inauguration of the new.
Ussi was officially appointed to accompany
the Italian Ambassador who concluded the treaty
with the Emperor of Morocco, and, wandering
through the north of Africa, became thoroughly
imbued with the poetry of vast distances, with the
mysterious colouring of the desert, and the weird
and picturesque life of the inhabitants. In addi-
tion to the official pictures of the reception of the
Ambassador at Fez, &c., which already showed a
remarkable loosening of academic bonds, he jotted
down a very great number of impressions, little
pictures, often only a few centimetres square,
replete with life and motion.
Ussi’s sympathy did not stop at the desert itself,
it overflowed to the wild tribes that inhabit it.
Arabs at their powder game riding straight out of
the picture, horsemen galloping in a wild fantasia
across a steppe bright with spring flowers, little
families travelling from place to place like the
Sacred Family of old, Arab encampments whose
inhabitants squat round terrible performing jugglers
-—a thousand different phases and aspects are
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