DOI Heft:
No. 98 (May, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Marx, Roger: The medallist's art, as seen at the Paris Exhibition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0266
The Medallist's Art
work, too, was shown by Franz Pawlik, R. F.
Marschall, Peter Breithut, and Tautenhayn junior.
The net result of the examination of all these works
by men of various temperaments and of diverse
nationalities is to realise the fact that the medallist's
art is in course of transformation, or at least, that
its very conception is undergoing a process of modi-
fication. From the medallist our towns and cities
still demand memorials wherewith to retain remem-
BY R. F. MARSCHALL
PLAQUETTE BY FRANZ PAWLIK
engravers. The similarity of aspect between Paris
and Vienna has long since been recognised, and
the same expressions of fine taste have often been
noted in the two capitals — the same love of
elegance, the same light and sensuous grace.
The innate delicacy of instinct in the Austrian
nature was bound, sooner or later, to manifest
itself in an art such as that of the medallist. All
honour to M. le Chevalier de Loehr for having so
strenuously assisted in the cultivation and the ex-
pansion of the glyptic art in Vienna, and for having
constituted himself the historian of the movement.*
The group of Austrian medallists made a splendid bra"Ce of §reat events > but we confine ourselves
show at the Paris Exhibition. Josef Tautenhayn ,n° lonSer t0 these solemn occasions. The medal-
figures foremost therein, followed by Anton Scharff, llSt Produces hls works nowadays as the engraver
portraitist and inventor of allegories, and Stephan Produces hls Plates, a* the painter paints his
Schwartz, who in their several ways reveal great P'CtUreS' aS the sculPtor carves hls statues-for the
faculties and uncommon technical gifts. Notable S e6r loVe °f creatlnS works of art, in virtue of the
_____right belonging to every artist to choose his own
* "Wiener Medailleure." Published by Schroll, ot particular mode of expressing his ideas. No one,
Vienna. 18S9. I suppose, will complain that the old limitations
work, too, was shown by Franz Pawlik, R. F.
Marschall, Peter Breithut, and Tautenhayn junior.
The net result of the examination of all these works
by men of various temperaments and of diverse
nationalities is to realise the fact that the medallist's
art is in course of transformation, or at least, that
its very conception is undergoing a process of modi-
fication. From the medallist our towns and cities
still demand memorials wherewith to retain remem-
BY R. F. MARSCHALL
PLAQUETTE BY FRANZ PAWLIK
engravers. The similarity of aspect between Paris
and Vienna has long since been recognised, and
the same expressions of fine taste have often been
noted in the two capitals — the same love of
elegance, the same light and sensuous grace.
The innate delicacy of instinct in the Austrian
nature was bound, sooner or later, to manifest
itself in an art such as that of the medallist. All
honour to M. le Chevalier de Loehr for having so
strenuously assisted in the cultivation and the ex-
pansion of the glyptic art in Vienna, and for having
constituted himself the historian of the movement.*
The group of Austrian medallists made a splendid bra"Ce of §reat events > but we confine ourselves
show at the Paris Exhibition. Josef Tautenhayn ,n° lonSer t0 these solemn occasions. The medal-
figures foremost therein, followed by Anton Scharff, llSt Produces hls works nowadays as the engraver
portraitist and inventor of allegories, and Stephan Produces hls Plates, a* the painter paints his
Schwartz, who in their several ways reveal great P'CtUreS' aS the sculPtor carves hls statues-for the
faculties and uncommon technical gifts. Notable S e6r loVe °f creatlnS works of art, in virtue of the
_____right belonging to every artist to choose his own
* "Wiener Medailleure." Published by Schroll, ot particular mode of expressing his ideas. No one,
Vienna. 18S9. I suppose, will complain that the old limitations