DOI Heft:
No. 88 (July, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0149
Studio- Talk
colours with it. His por-
traits of children are es-
pecially welcome by reason
of the fact that their pre-
sentment of the charm of
babyhood has not the least
trace either of affectation or
of the "pretty-pretty."
H. W. S.
c
HRISTIANIA.
— A sign of
how the in-
terest in artistic
books is expanding itself
over the earth is found in
the fact that the people of
Christiania have got up a
society for " promoting art
and taste in Norwegian
books." The, society in-
tends to hold meetings and
publish books for its mem-
bers. The first book will
be an edition of an old
Norwegian folk-song, "The
Draumkvae," under the
direction of Gerhard
Munthe, one of the most
prominent Norwegian
portrait BY Leopold von kalckreuth painters. The Studio has
given an account of his
work in a previous issue.
the various ideals which latterly have come to be The president of the society is Dr. Hans Reusch,
admired and displaced in rather rapid succession, of Christiania.
Kalckreuth's best efforts, being already in posses-
sion of the galleries at Dresden, Weimar, Munich, 1 X RUSSELS.—Several important works,
and elsewhere, were of course not to be seen in lately acquired by the Government, have
this collection. J been placed in the Musee Moderne.
- . They consist of the late Alfred Verwee's
Naturally the paintings, done during a space of celebrated painting, L'Embouchure de VEscaut;
ten years, at a time of life when one's artistic a large pastel by Fernand Khnopff, entitled
codex has not yet been firmly established, were Memories, representing girls playing tennis; a
unequal. For the rest, the interiors and portraits little picture by Joseph Stevens, a la Forge, and
are undoubtedly the best things Kalckreuth has a lovely thing by Alfred Stevens—Fleurs d'Automne,
painted, and among them are found some truly the gift of M. Ch. Cardon.
admirable pictures. His models are to a very
great extent his children. It is perhaps not The Government has also purchased three
difficult for him to produce striking likenesses of judiciously-chosen pictures by the deceased land-
the faces he knows so well. But he does far scapist, Th. Baron, from among his works recently
more than that. He has a wonderful capacity for exhibited in the two galleries of the Cercle Artis-
making a picture out of a portrait, and he arranges tique. They worthily represent the artist's strong
his subject so as to obtain a beautiful harmony of and earnest manner.
colours with it. His por-
traits of children are es-
pecially welcome by reason
of the fact that their pre-
sentment of the charm of
babyhood has not the least
trace either of affectation or
of the "pretty-pretty."
H. W. S.
c
HRISTIANIA.
— A sign of
how the in-
terest in artistic
books is expanding itself
over the earth is found in
the fact that the people of
Christiania have got up a
society for " promoting art
and taste in Norwegian
books." The, society in-
tends to hold meetings and
publish books for its mem-
bers. The first book will
be an edition of an old
Norwegian folk-song, "The
Draumkvae," under the
direction of Gerhard
Munthe, one of the most
prominent Norwegian
portrait BY Leopold von kalckreuth painters. The Studio has
given an account of his
work in a previous issue.
the various ideals which latterly have come to be The president of the society is Dr. Hans Reusch,
admired and displaced in rather rapid succession, of Christiania.
Kalckreuth's best efforts, being already in posses-
sion of the galleries at Dresden, Weimar, Munich, 1 X RUSSELS.—Several important works,
and elsewhere, were of course not to be seen in lately acquired by the Government, have
this collection. J been placed in the Musee Moderne.
- . They consist of the late Alfred Verwee's
Naturally the paintings, done during a space of celebrated painting, L'Embouchure de VEscaut;
ten years, at a time of life when one's artistic a large pastel by Fernand Khnopff, entitled
codex has not yet been firmly established, were Memories, representing girls playing tennis; a
unequal. For the rest, the interiors and portraits little picture by Joseph Stevens, a la Forge, and
are undoubtedly the best things Kalckreuth has a lovely thing by Alfred Stevens—Fleurs d'Automne,
painted, and among them are found some truly the gift of M. Ch. Cardon.
admirable pictures. His models are to a very
great extent his children. It is perhaps not The Government has also purchased three
difficult for him to produce striking likenesses of judiciously-chosen pictures by the deceased land-
the faces he knows so well. But he does far scapist, Th. Baron, from among his works recently
more than that. He has a wonderful capacity for exhibited in the two galleries of the Cercle Artis-
making a picture out of a portrait, and he arranges tique. They worthily represent the artist's strong
his subject so as to obtain a beautiful harmony of and earnest manner.