DOI issue:
No. 95 (February, 1901)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0072
Studio- Talk
At Arnold's Galleries the three newest works of antique lamp in the night of Time; while Poetry,
Max Klinger are to be seen, namely, a small relief, personified as a graceful maiden clothed in a
reminding one very much of Rodin, a small bronze violet robe, is holding a lyre in one hand,
—girl swimming upon a piece of marble made to and with the other scattering the flowers of
imitate water in a curious rather than successful illusion upon the ruins of the past. The whole is
way—and a splendid, life-size, marble kneeling set in a framework representing an uninterrupted
girl. This seems to me the best piece of sculpture series of human skulls, and bearing the Latin
Klinger has done so far. The position is too device, " Sic transit gloria mundi." We understand
constrained to be true; but so is that of Michel that Mr. Robert is at the present time engaged
Angelo's famous Sleepers, and much after the upon two decorative panels for the Federal Law
same fashion. This marble statue gives evidence of Courts at Lausanne,
wonderful powers of observation, while that attention
to detail which, according to my opinion, ruins M. Giron has received the order to execute a
Klinger's later etched work, seems very much in large decorative panel for the hall of the
place here. Klinger has just published two new new Federal Palace at Bern, and has chosen as
engravings. They are both new versions of old his subject the view of the Mythen from the
plates—the " Dedication " and the " Genius " ot Seelisberg. R. M.
the series " On Death." Both are, to my mind,
infinitely inferior to the early plates, and both 1 ""V RUSSELS.—Although the Exhibition of
have lost all their power and suggestiveness under I ^ the " Sillon " Club was less sombre in
a weight of "finish." H. W. S. I appearance than usual this year, one
nevertheless felt that there was still too
WITZERLAND. — Mr. Paul Robert's much imitation of old pictures—imitation achieved
recent contribution to decorative art in by means of skilfully-mixed varnishes.
. j this country is in
^"""^^ every way worthy
of the artist's great gifts.
It is a magnificent design
for a mosaic that now
decorates the facade of the
Historical Museum at Bern,
the subject of it being His-
tory and Poetry. In the
background five personifi-
cations of the principal
epochs of history loom out
of the starry night. Be-
neath them, and almost
invisible, defiles the long
procession of humanity;
and lower still opens out a
landscape sown with ruins,
smoke and flames rising
here from a burning manor,
there from a sacked village.
In the foreground, and
bathed in a lilac-blue atmo-
sphere, the two main figures
are thrown into relief. His-
tory, represented as an
old woman clad in a dark
mantle, is chronicling in a
large book what she is able
to discern by the aid of an embroidered cushion cover by fritz rentsch
54
At Arnold's Galleries the three newest works of antique lamp in the night of Time; while Poetry,
Max Klinger are to be seen, namely, a small relief, personified as a graceful maiden clothed in a
reminding one very much of Rodin, a small bronze violet robe, is holding a lyre in one hand,
—girl swimming upon a piece of marble made to and with the other scattering the flowers of
imitate water in a curious rather than successful illusion upon the ruins of the past. The whole is
way—and a splendid, life-size, marble kneeling set in a framework representing an uninterrupted
girl. This seems to me the best piece of sculpture series of human skulls, and bearing the Latin
Klinger has done so far. The position is too device, " Sic transit gloria mundi." We understand
constrained to be true; but so is that of Michel that Mr. Robert is at the present time engaged
Angelo's famous Sleepers, and much after the upon two decorative panels for the Federal Law
same fashion. This marble statue gives evidence of Courts at Lausanne,
wonderful powers of observation, while that attention
to detail which, according to my opinion, ruins M. Giron has received the order to execute a
Klinger's later etched work, seems very much in large decorative panel for the hall of the
place here. Klinger has just published two new new Federal Palace at Bern, and has chosen as
engravings. They are both new versions of old his subject the view of the Mythen from the
plates—the " Dedication " and the " Genius " ot Seelisberg. R. M.
the series " On Death." Both are, to my mind,
infinitely inferior to the early plates, and both 1 ""V RUSSELS.—Although the Exhibition of
have lost all their power and suggestiveness under I ^ the " Sillon " Club was less sombre in
a weight of "finish." H. W. S. I appearance than usual this year, one
nevertheless felt that there was still too
WITZERLAND. — Mr. Paul Robert's much imitation of old pictures—imitation achieved
recent contribution to decorative art in by means of skilfully-mixed varnishes.
. j this country is in
^"""^^ every way worthy
of the artist's great gifts.
It is a magnificent design
for a mosaic that now
decorates the facade of the
Historical Museum at Bern,
the subject of it being His-
tory and Poetry. In the
background five personifi-
cations of the principal
epochs of history loom out
of the starry night. Be-
neath them, and almost
invisible, defiles the long
procession of humanity;
and lower still opens out a
landscape sown with ruins,
smoke and flames rising
here from a burning manor,
there from a sacked village.
In the foreground, and
bathed in a lilac-blue atmo-
sphere, the two main figures
are thrown into relief. His-
tory, represented as an
old woman clad in a dark
mantle, is chronicling in a
large book what she is able
to discern by the aid of an embroidered cushion cover by fritz rentsch
54