DOI Heft:
No. 81 (December, 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0230
Studio- Talk
"IN THE LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN " SKETCH 1SY ROBERT STERL
the design of a school which has been recently portion of the facade an impressive dignity which
erected at Schwabing, a suburb of Munich. In is shared by the entire front of the building,
our modern schools the size of the windows, the G. K.
height of the class-rooms, the width of the corridors,
staircases, and doors are strictly regulated by law, --»w RESDEN. — The German National
in accordance with the number of the pupils who j \ Exhibition has closed its doors after
are to be accommodated. It needs no elaboration I a very successful four months, and
of argument to prove how by these regulations the M the local art galleries are making
free artistic creative power of the architect has been brave efforts to help us over our
circumscribed. But sometimes our artists, not- concern at not being able to visit the large show
withstanding those restrictions, have triumphed. any more. Wolffram displays a fine collection of
Jan Toorop's work, covering the space of fifteen
- years, and bringing him to our notice as a painter,
an etcher, and decorative designer. Toorop is not
Thus, Fischer has contrived, by clever mouldings a Dresden man, and one is hardly warranted in
and appropriate decoration, to introduce life into treating of him at length in a report of Dresden's
the small area of wall space left by the large win- doings; besides, he has already been introduced to
dows. The ornamentations are produced in an the readers of The Studio. His odd " Malayan"
extremely simple manner, by means of smooth white philosophical pictures, such as the Three Brides,
patterns standing out from a rough white ground, the seem less odd to us now, and more decorative
subjects being well adapted to stimulate the interest than when they first appeared some seven or
and the understanding of children. A richer kind eight years ago. His " European " pictures—if
of decoration has been reserved for the portal— I may thus designate that part of his earlier
viz. plastic figures, colour treatment, and artistic- work which is art without a diagram—are always
ally designed railings. All these things remind the interesting and powerful. In their handling they
children of the importance of the entrance into are as original as Manet, and yet unlike Manet,
the school, and at the same time impart to this In their presentation of fine colour harmonies they
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"IN THE LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN " SKETCH 1SY ROBERT STERL
the design of a school which has been recently portion of the facade an impressive dignity which
erected at Schwabing, a suburb of Munich. In is shared by the entire front of the building,
our modern schools the size of the windows, the G. K.
height of the class-rooms, the width of the corridors,
staircases, and doors are strictly regulated by law, --»w RESDEN. — The German National
in accordance with the number of the pupils who j \ Exhibition has closed its doors after
are to be accommodated. It needs no elaboration I a very successful four months, and
of argument to prove how by these regulations the M the local art galleries are making
free artistic creative power of the architect has been brave efforts to help us over our
circumscribed. But sometimes our artists, not- concern at not being able to visit the large show
withstanding those restrictions, have triumphed. any more. Wolffram displays a fine collection of
Jan Toorop's work, covering the space of fifteen
- years, and bringing him to our notice as a painter,
an etcher, and decorative designer. Toorop is not
Thus, Fischer has contrived, by clever mouldings a Dresden man, and one is hardly warranted in
and appropriate decoration, to introduce life into treating of him at length in a report of Dresden's
the small area of wall space left by the large win- doings; besides, he has already been introduced to
dows. The ornamentations are produced in an the readers of The Studio. His odd " Malayan"
extremely simple manner, by means of smooth white philosophical pictures, such as the Three Brides,
patterns standing out from a rough white ground, the seem less odd to us now, and more decorative
subjects being well adapted to stimulate the interest than when they first appeared some seven or
and the understanding of children. A richer kind eight years ago. His " European " pictures—if
of decoration has been reserved for the portal— I may thus designate that part of his earlier
viz. plastic figures, colour treatment, and artistic- work which is art without a diagram—are always
ally designed railings. All these things remind the interesting and powerful. In their handling they
children of the importance of the entrance into are as original as Manet, and yet unlike Manet,
the school, and at the same time impart to this In their presentation of fine colour harmonies they
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