DOI Heft:
No. 79 (October, 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0078
Studio- Talk
could be more natural—or more disgusting ? There
is only one consolation—it is all of no importance
whatever. Posterity will judge between the artists
I have named and the others.
G. M.
ANTWERP.—An artist of high promise,
Antoon van Welie of Hertogenbosch
(Bois-le-Duc), exhibited, on the occa-
sion of the recent Van Dyck celebra-
tions, some thirty works done in the
last few years. They were displayed in a wooden
building constructed by the architects Van Averbeke
and Diehl, and arranged with exquisite taste. The
works displayed are of three kinds—a dozen por-
traits, several character sketches, and five or six
subtle and well-thought-out pictures—executed re-
spectively in oils, wash, pencil, and pastel.
There is a great variety of style in the technique
of the portraits, some being painted heavily, in
bold, warm, rich tones, while others are treated in
an almost decorative manner, and others again are
handled in the simple, patient, conscientious style of
the "primitives." The latter are the most remarkable
of all. These portraits resemble in no way even the
most approved of modern methods, and it is not the
least of their many merits that they are more or less
strong from their psychological aspect. Van Welie
strives above all to interpret not the mere momentary
feeling of his model, nor yet its luxurious ex-
ternal aspect, but rather its true innermost being.
Especially noteworthy are three little heads, Dolor,
a chalk drawing ; Christine, a pastel; and Tristan,
also a pastel, the first two represented in profile and
the last in three-quarter, all clearly expressive of
the feeling which animated the young artist in his
labours.
By natural progression
we come next to his series
of poemes plastiques, in
which the artist has been
inspired by his favourite
authors—Shakespeare,
Dante, Ovid, and "The
People," that inimitable
inventor of stories and
fables. " Hamlet" sup-
plies the artist with his
Ophelia, a wash - drawing
of great beauty, treated in
masterly style. The
" Metamorphoses "—or is
it Gluck's lyric drama ?—
has inspired Orphee, a
large oil painting, where-
in one sees the divine
singer lying on the knotted
roots of a tree, by the
shores of the Styx, gazing
from afar on the forms
of the happy souls in
Elysium.
Remarkable as are his
Fairy Princesses and his
Paolo and Francesca, Van
Welie's highest powers are
exemplified in his real little
masterpiece, Muzick. It
were impossible to describe
PORTRAIT OF MISS ANTONIA LEWIN I5Y ANTOON VAN WELIE Of tO analyse a WOrk SO
6 2
could be more natural—or more disgusting ? There
is only one consolation—it is all of no importance
whatever. Posterity will judge between the artists
I have named and the others.
G. M.
ANTWERP.—An artist of high promise,
Antoon van Welie of Hertogenbosch
(Bois-le-Duc), exhibited, on the occa-
sion of the recent Van Dyck celebra-
tions, some thirty works done in the
last few years. They were displayed in a wooden
building constructed by the architects Van Averbeke
and Diehl, and arranged with exquisite taste. The
works displayed are of three kinds—a dozen por-
traits, several character sketches, and five or six
subtle and well-thought-out pictures—executed re-
spectively in oils, wash, pencil, and pastel.
There is a great variety of style in the technique
of the portraits, some being painted heavily, in
bold, warm, rich tones, while others are treated in
an almost decorative manner, and others again are
handled in the simple, patient, conscientious style of
the "primitives." The latter are the most remarkable
of all. These portraits resemble in no way even the
most approved of modern methods, and it is not the
least of their many merits that they are more or less
strong from their psychological aspect. Van Welie
strives above all to interpret not the mere momentary
feeling of his model, nor yet its luxurious ex-
ternal aspect, but rather its true innermost being.
Especially noteworthy are three little heads, Dolor,
a chalk drawing ; Christine, a pastel; and Tristan,
also a pastel, the first two represented in profile and
the last in three-quarter, all clearly expressive of
the feeling which animated the young artist in his
labours.
By natural progression
we come next to his series
of poemes plastiques, in
which the artist has been
inspired by his favourite
authors—Shakespeare,
Dante, Ovid, and "The
People," that inimitable
inventor of stories and
fables. " Hamlet" sup-
plies the artist with his
Ophelia, a wash - drawing
of great beauty, treated in
masterly style. The
" Metamorphoses "—or is
it Gluck's lyric drama ?—
has inspired Orphee, a
large oil painting, where-
in one sees the divine
singer lying on the knotted
roots of a tree, by the
shores of the Styx, gazing
from afar on the forms
of the happy souls in
Elysium.
Remarkable as are his
Fairy Princesses and his
Paolo and Francesca, Van
Welie's highest powers are
exemplified in his real little
masterpiece, Muzick. It
were impossible to describe
PORTRAIT OF MISS ANTONIA LEWIN I5Y ANTOON VAN WELIE Of tO analyse a WOrk SO
6 2