DOI Heft:
Nr. 77 (August 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0231
Studio- Talk
rior comfort has in no way been sacrificed for the
sake of deceptive external effect. Nevertheless
M. Horta has succeeded in investing his plain and
simple edifice with true artistic merit.
F. K.
BUDAPEST. — The most remarkable
work seen in this year’s spring exhibi-
tion was unquestionably that of George
Zala, the sculptor, whose Archangel
Gabriel (see page 207) is to form
part of the millennary memorial, as the symbol of
Apostolic Regality. The archangel appears with
outspread wings, holding in his hands the royal
crown of Hungary and the double cross, while his
feet rest upon the globe, which terminates the work.
This work is in M. Zala’s finest manner, and it is
eminently satisfactory that in the great Memorial
will be seen the most notable piece of Hungarian
sculpture produced in modern times. The Memo-
rial, it should be stated, consists of a semi-circular
sculpture gallery, containing effigies of the more
celebrated Hungarian monarchs; while in the
centre, on a rectangular base, will be placed Zala’s
Gabriel. Beneath it will be a group of mounted
figures—leaders and chieftains conquered by Hun-
gary a thousand years ago.
The spring exhibition contained some remark-
able portraits by F. Laszlo, and several delightful
landscapes by Ignaz Ujvary, Daniel Mihalik, and
Ludwig Szlanyi.
A. T.
MELBOURNE. — Public attention
has been aroused in Melbourne
by a series of articles and letters
on the condition of the pictures
in the local National Gallery.
The peculiarities of the climate are such that great
variations of temperature occur suddenly, and at
times within a few minutes. These are due to the
cyclonic disturbances, so frequent in summer, when
the hot, dry north winds from the central plains,
blowing for two or three consecutive days, are
instantaneously reversed by the cold, wet south
wind from the Antarctic Ocean. A typical instance
of this unpleasant phenomenon occurred in the
middle of March, when the thermometer under a
cloudless sky stood at 155° Fahr. in the sun and at
98° in the shade, but fell to 68° in fifteen minutes
at three o’clock, and to 48° by eight o’clock in the
evening. Neither people nor pictures are seasoned
to bear these extremities, and the result is that
varnishes crack and oil pigments succumb to such
“ LA FILI.E DE NIOBE
(See Venice Studio-Talk)
BY D. TRENTACOSTE
rior comfort has in no way been sacrificed for the
sake of deceptive external effect. Nevertheless
M. Horta has succeeded in investing his plain and
simple edifice with true artistic merit.
F. K.
BUDAPEST. — The most remarkable
work seen in this year’s spring exhibi-
tion was unquestionably that of George
Zala, the sculptor, whose Archangel
Gabriel (see page 207) is to form
part of the millennary memorial, as the symbol of
Apostolic Regality. The archangel appears with
outspread wings, holding in his hands the royal
crown of Hungary and the double cross, while his
feet rest upon the globe, which terminates the work.
This work is in M. Zala’s finest manner, and it is
eminently satisfactory that in the great Memorial
will be seen the most notable piece of Hungarian
sculpture produced in modern times. The Memo-
rial, it should be stated, consists of a semi-circular
sculpture gallery, containing effigies of the more
celebrated Hungarian monarchs; while in the
centre, on a rectangular base, will be placed Zala’s
Gabriel. Beneath it will be a group of mounted
figures—leaders and chieftains conquered by Hun-
gary a thousand years ago.
The spring exhibition contained some remark-
able portraits by F. Laszlo, and several delightful
landscapes by Ignaz Ujvary, Daniel Mihalik, and
Ludwig Szlanyi.
A. T.
MELBOURNE. — Public attention
has been aroused in Melbourne
by a series of articles and letters
on the condition of the pictures
in the local National Gallery.
The peculiarities of the climate are such that great
variations of temperature occur suddenly, and at
times within a few minutes. These are due to the
cyclonic disturbances, so frequent in summer, when
the hot, dry north winds from the central plains,
blowing for two or three consecutive days, are
instantaneously reversed by the cold, wet south
wind from the Antarctic Ocean. A typical instance
of this unpleasant phenomenon occurred in the
middle of March, when the thermometer under a
cloudless sky stood at 155° Fahr. in the sun and at
98° in the shade, but fell to 68° in fifteen minutes
at three o’clock, and to 48° by eight o’clock in the
evening. Neither people nor pictures are seasoned
to bear these extremities, and the result is that
varnishes crack and oil pigments succumb to such
“ LA FILI.E DE NIOBE
(See Venice Studio-Talk)
BY D. TRENTACOSTE