DOI Heft:
No. 80 (November, 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0160
Studio-
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ILLUSTRATION FOR CHAUCER'S "CANTERBURY TALES "
VIENNA.—At H. O. Miethke's Gallery
some water-colours by Liebermann,
Scarbina, Dettmann, and a collection
of paintings and drawings by Hans
Schwaiger, were recently on view.
Schwaiger is an artist of great originality and humour.
Living as he does in a remote district of Moravia
among an unsophisticated peasantry, he has all the
freshness and wholesome vitality of an independent
nature. As an illustrator of folk-lore and old
legends he is sometimes quite unique in colour as
well as in design. The stories of giants, goblins,
and mediaeval " mysteries " have found in him a
most ready interpreter. For the " Pied Piper of
Plamelin " he composed a series of ten illustrations,
one of which is reproduced herewith (page 138).
Schwaiger is devoted to books, and Chaucer is one
of his favourite authors. Two of the illustrations
here given are from drawings for the " Canterbury
Tales." W. S.
BERLIN.—In place of the one great Ex-
hibition opened yearly each successive
spring, this year we had two, the old
Academic display being supplemented
by that of the "Secession." The
formation of this Berlin "Secession" has already
been referred to in these columns. Both exhibi-
tions revealed the fact that the new institution has
come into existence none too soon, for it is ten
years behind the similar society in Munich. The
older exhibition, which is by far the larger of the
140
Talk
BY HANS SCHWAIGER
two, was quite uninteresting and commonplace,
while the newer, though small, was good and stimu-
lating, and from the very outset was marked by
success.
The "Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1899"
may be dismissed in very few words. Among the
pictures were two works by Leibl; numerous, but
not specially remarkable, examples of Menzel;
a male portrait by Lenbach, dated 1890, display-
ing all the master's great qualities, which are
lacking unfortunately in several of his later works ;
John Lavery's splendid portrait of a lady in grey,
and several charming landscapes by Sperl, Fritz
von Wille, of Diisseldorf, and Hermanns. In
sculpture we had Tuaillon's new work, Der
Sieger, a naked youth on horseback, wonderful in
its masterly modelling, and the great votive statue
of Cardinal Prince Schwarzenberg, by the Prague
sculptor, Myslbek. Finally we must duly notice
and admire the special exhibit in honour of the
almost forgotten artist Teutwart Schmitson, who
died in 1863, when little more than thirty years
old. In his own day Schmitson's works aroused
great antagonism by reason of their naturalism ;
but for years past several of his pictures have been
in the National Gallery, and his memory has now
been revived. The realism which repelled the
people of forty years ago is by no means distaste-
ful to our modern eyes, with their better training.
We see here beautiful, rich-coloured pictures in
which the movements of the horse—his general
r/ .....
ILLUSTRATION FOR CHAUCER'S "CANTERBURY TALES "
VIENNA.—At H. O. Miethke's Gallery
some water-colours by Liebermann,
Scarbina, Dettmann, and a collection
of paintings and drawings by Hans
Schwaiger, were recently on view.
Schwaiger is an artist of great originality and humour.
Living as he does in a remote district of Moravia
among an unsophisticated peasantry, he has all the
freshness and wholesome vitality of an independent
nature. As an illustrator of folk-lore and old
legends he is sometimes quite unique in colour as
well as in design. The stories of giants, goblins,
and mediaeval " mysteries " have found in him a
most ready interpreter. For the " Pied Piper of
Plamelin " he composed a series of ten illustrations,
one of which is reproduced herewith (page 138).
Schwaiger is devoted to books, and Chaucer is one
of his favourite authors. Two of the illustrations
here given are from drawings for the " Canterbury
Tales." W. S.
BERLIN.—In place of the one great Ex-
hibition opened yearly each successive
spring, this year we had two, the old
Academic display being supplemented
by that of the "Secession." The
formation of this Berlin "Secession" has already
been referred to in these columns. Both exhibi-
tions revealed the fact that the new institution has
come into existence none too soon, for it is ten
years behind the similar society in Munich. The
older exhibition, which is by far the larger of the
140
Talk
BY HANS SCHWAIGER
two, was quite uninteresting and commonplace,
while the newer, though small, was good and stimu-
lating, and from the very outset was marked by
success.
The "Great Berlin Art Exhibition of 1899"
may be dismissed in very few words. Among the
pictures were two works by Leibl; numerous, but
not specially remarkable, examples of Menzel;
a male portrait by Lenbach, dated 1890, display-
ing all the master's great qualities, which are
lacking unfortunately in several of his later works ;
John Lavery's splendid portrait of a lady in grey,
and several charming landscapes by Sperl, Fritz
von Wille, of Diisseldorf, and Hermanns. In
sculpture we had Tuaillon's new work, Der
Sieger, a naked youth on horseback, wonderful in
its masterly modelling, and the great votive statue
of Cardinal Prince Schwarzenberg, by the Prague
sculptor, Myslbek. Finally we must duly notice
and admire the special exhibit in honour of the
almost forgotten artist Teutwart Schmitson, who
died in 1863, when little more than thirty years
old. In his own day Schmitson's works aroused
great antagonism by reason of their naturalism ;
but for years past several of his pictures have been
in the National Gallery, and his memory has now
been revived. The realism which repelled the
people of forty years ago is by no means distaste-
ful to our modern eyes, with their better training.
We see here beautiful, rich-coloured pictures in
which the movements of the horse—his general