Studio: international art (20.1900)

Studio- Talk

"the dancer" statuette by f. klimsch

Reproductions of some of the work of a young
Berlin sculptor, Fritz Klimsch, are now given.
He was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1870,
and at first studied under his father, Eugen
Klimsch, the painter. Subsequently he worked at
the Berlin Academy, and was for some years in
Rome and Paris. Some of his portrait busts and
nude figures show careful observation of Nature
and no little feeling. His figures are full of move-
ment, but, as every artist knows, a great deal
depends on outline in plastic work. It is to be
hoped the young sculptor may have an early
opportunity of displaying his skill on some larger
monument (and monuments are springing up like
mushrooms all over Germany), but, unfortunately,
in the distribution of such commissions considera-
tions not altogether artistic very often prevail.

partment of art handicrafts. More interest is now
being taken in work of this sort, and at the Salon
of Keller and Reiner we have the opportunity of
seeing many excellent examples of furniture,
jewellery, pottery, glass-ware, etc. H. Hirschwald
has also been exhibiting some novelties, such as
rooms furnished and designed by Otto Eckmann
or Plumet or Selmersheim, the work admirably
executed in the workshops of the " Hohenzollern
kaufhaus."

A number of designs for damask table-linen, one
of which is illustrated here, afford further proof that

A few words are due in conclusion to the de-

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statuette

by f. klimsch