DOI Heft:
No. 87 (June, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0073
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to become the chief aim of German art, supported less, and thus our admiration for work such as
as it was by the approbation of a public quite that of Knaus is not unmixed with other feelings,
innocent of things aesthetic. Yet we cannot blame The great public, however, on the occasion of this
the initiators of a style such as this when, by display, celebrated a new triumph for an old
reason of its popular favour, it is imitated, favourite to whom they owe many a pleasant
vulgarised, and carried beyond its proper limits moment,
by mediocre painters—a class not yet exterminated!
_ Among the big Salons, Schulte's, hitherto very
Ludwif Knaus was a real artist. He was a conservative, has undergone a marked change of
keen observer, and possessed the gift of repro- late, and many good examples of the new art
ducin<* faithfully all he saw. Not for nothing did movement were to be seen at their winter show,
he work in France at the time of the great There was little of importance from the Berlin
colourists. His paintings, often rich and warm in painters, but many of their collective exhibitions
tone, surprise one by their abundance of finely- during the winter became fashionable in Court
executed detail. But the set purpose to entertain, and Society circles. The Hungarian painter,
even to amuse, is often too patent; and herein Philipp Laszld, who lives in Berlin, was repre-
the painter exceeded his artistic resources. The sented at Schulte's by numerous portraits of
present artistic generation will not be satisfied aristocratic personages. His pictures are some-
with mere " anecdotes " ; it wants either more or what superior to the ordinary conventional works
of the sort, possessing, as
they do, a certain "knack,"
being passably discreet in
colouring, and moreover
undoubtedly clever. I pre-
fer Laszld to the Viennese
artist, Angeli, but Winter-
halter, certainly no great
portraitist, invests his sub-
jects with far more dignity
than either. By far the best
work ever done by Laszl6
is his portrait of the vene-
rable Imperial Chancellor,
Prince Hohenlohe. Yet
when we compare them,
how much more distin-
guished, how much more
artistic, the portraits of
Lavery! With him the
chief aim is to produce a
work of art. Herkomer
has achieved a great suc-
cess here in fashionable
society by his large display,
which includes the cele-
brated Dame in Weiss
(Miss Grant) and the Dame
in Schwarz. Has not the
Emperor himself sat to
him? On the other hand,
many people have received
him very coldly. What
will posterity's verdict be ?
„«„ tahtf ttoth ey wai.ter crane There will hardly be a
design for damask table. llu111 J
55
to become the chief aim of German art, supported less, and thus our admiration for work such as
as it was by the approbation of a public quite that of Knaus is not unmixed with other feelings,
innocent of things aesthetic. Yet we cannot blame The great public, however, on the occasion of this
the initiators of a style such as this when, by display, celebrated a new triumph for an old
reason of its popular favour, it is imitated, favourite to whom they owe many a pleasant
vulgarised, and carried beyond its proper limits moment,
by mediocre painters—a class not yet exterminated!
_ Among the big Salons, Schulte's, hitherto very
Ludwif Knaus was a real artist. He was a conservative, has undergone a marked change of
keen observer, and possessed the gift of repro- late, and many good examples of the new art
ducin<* faithfully all he saw. Not for nothing did movement were to be seen at their winter show,
he work in France at the time of the great There was little of importance from the Berlin
colourists. His paintings, often rich and warm in painters, but many of their collective exhibitions
tone, surprise one by their abundance of finely- during the winter became fashionable in Court
executed detail. But the set purpose to entertain, and Society circles. The Hungarian painter,
even to amuse, is often too patent; and herein Philipp Laszld, who lives in Berlin, was repre-
the painter exceeded his artistic resources. The sented at Schulte's by numerous portraits of
present artistic generation will not be satisfied aristocratic personages. His pictures are some-
with mere " anecdotes " ; it wants either more or what superior to the ordinary conventional works
of the sort, possessing, as
they do, a certain "knack,"
being passably discreet in
colouring, and moreover
undoubtedly clever. I pre-
fer Laszld to the Viennese
artist, Angeli, but Winter-
halter, certainly no great
portraitist, invests his sub-
jects with far more dignity
than either. By far the best
work ever done by Laszl6
is his portrait of the vene-
rable Imperial Chancellor,
Prince Hohenlohe. Yet
when we compare them,
how much more distin-
guished, how much more
artistic, the portraits of
Lavery! With him the
chief aim is to produce a
work of art. Herkomer
has achieved a great suc-
cess here in fashionable
society by his large display,
which includes the cele-
brated Dame in Weiss
(Miss Grant) and the Dame
in Schwarz. Has not the
Emperor himself sat to
him? On the other hand,
many people have received
him very coldly. What
will posterity's verdict be ?
„«„ tahtf ttoth ey wai.ter crane There will hardly be a
design for damask table. llu111 J
55