DOI issue:
No. 92 (November, 1900)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19786#0160
Studio- Talk
FROM AN ETCHING BY E. MENDEL
eighteen months at the Academy, under Professor Exhibition this year he is the sole representative
Gysis. Then he had to return to Bucharest, but painter-engraver among the Roumanian artists,
managed, by his portrait work, to get the where- His Lehr- und Wanderjahre—the early days of
withal for a second visit to Munich—a visit which struggle and privation—differed but little from
lasted only six months. For three years more he those of many another foreign artist who has had
continued to live in Bucharest, and, stimulated by to fight his way to success in some great art centre,
the works of Fortuny, he turned his attention to The great merit of his work lies in the fact that it
etching. Since 1894 his eaux-fortes have been is original, and marked by real national colouring,
annually exhibited in Munich. He prefers to depict the types and scenes of his
- home, never failing to seize the picturesque aspect
Returning once more to Munich in 1896, of things. The bright flowing folds of the
Mendel was enabled, thanks to the generous Roumanian costume have always had a peculiar
assistance of Herr Dreher, the well-known actor fascination for Mendel, for they give him oppor-
and art lover, to continue his studies without tunities for fine effects of light and shade in the
further interruption. He went again to the clear, strong sunshine of the South. His animal
Academy, where the excellent etcher Peter Halm, paintings mostly represent pigs and geese, treated
and the eminent animal painter Heinrich Zuegel, with the utmost skill. In point of technique,
were his teachers. In addition to doing a lot of Mendel is extremely clever and dexterous. He
independent work, which achieved great success deliberately combines in his etchings the most
in his native town in 1898, Mendel spent con- diverse methods in one and the same plate; and
siderable time in copying and restoring pictures. although such a proceeding may be deprecated in
-- theory, it cannot be denied that he obtains a most
Last year he published an album of original exquisitely artistic effect in many of his works,
etchings, which were much praised. At the Paris For the most part his etchings are as unlike the
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FROM AN ETCHING BY E. MENDEL
eighteen months at the Academy, under Professor Exhibition this year he is the sole representative
Gysis. Then he had to return to Bucharest, but painter-engraver among the Roumanian artists,
managed, by his portrait work, to get the where- His Lehr- und Wanderjahre—the early days of
withal for a second visit to Munich—a visit which struggle and privation—differed but little from
lasted only six months. For three years more he those of many another foreign artist who has had
continued to live in Bucharest, and, stimulated by to fight his way to success in some great art centre,
the works of Fortuny, he turned his attention to The great merit of his work lies in the fact that it
etching. Since 1894 his eaux-fortes have been is original, and marked by real national colouring,
annually exhibited in Munich. He prefers to depict the types and scenes of his
- home, never failing to seize the picturesque aspect
Returning once more to Munich in 1896, of things. The bright flowing folds of the
Mendel was enabled, thanks to the generous Roumanian costume have always had a peculiar
assistance of Herr Dreher, the well-known actor fascination for Mendel, for they give him oppor-
and art lover, to continue his studies without tunities for fine effects of light and shade in the
further interruption. He went again to the clear, strong sunshine of the South. His animal
Academy, where the excellent etcher Peter Halm, paintings mostly represent pigs and geese, treated
and the eminent animal painter Heinrich Zuegel, with the utmost skill. In point of technique,
were his teachers. In addition to doing a lot of Mendel is extremely clever and dexterous. He
independent work, which achieved great success deliberately combines in his etchings the most
in his native town in 1898, Mendel spent con- diverse methods in one and the same plate; and
siderable time in copying and restoring pictures. although such a proceeding may be deprecated in
-- theory, it cannot be denied that he obtains a most
Last year he published an album of original exquisitely artistic effect in many of his works,
etchings, which were much praised. At the Paris For the most part his etchings are as unlike the
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