DOI Heft:
Nr. 99 (June 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19788#0076
Studio- Talk
The designs for embroidery are equally re-
markable for what may be called the natural,
healthy beauty of their form and colouring.
They are worked out in Bohemian, Moravian
and Slavonian villages with rare skill, and in
many a remote district a new impulse has of
recent years been given to domestic industries.
In many cases, however, the patterns and colour
schemes have been handed down from genera-
tion to generation, exercising a very great in-
fluence upon the taste of the present day.
Indeed, we find technical methods, such as were
employed hundreds of years ago, in general use
in modern times, so that the new activity
is rather a revival, with modern modifications,
than an absolutely fresh departure.
Designs sketched on vellum or parchment by
Professor Kastner have been, at his wish, worked
out in the School of Embroidery. In suitable
environment these designs are thoroughly effec-
tive, but such environment is actually essential
to their success, and they are, as a general rule,
LETTER-CASE BY PROFESSOR E. NOVAK
LETTER-CASE BY PROFESSOR E. NOVAK
only in the right place in the houses for which they
have been specially made.
Bohemian artists have done much to encourage
art craftsmanship in their native land, and very
great strides in advance have been made in that
direction; indeed, the Bohemians may now pride
themselves on having a certain number of followers
and imitators. At the Paris Exhibition their work
attracted a great deal of attention. We may name
in this connection, as especially successful, Ian
Kotera, Mauder and Nemec. Professor Scala,
Director of the Austrian Museum, manifested
a very great interest in their exhibits. In the
capital of Bohemia itself also, the efforts of native
artists have had a very marked result on the taste of
the public who patronize the shops. The new
impulse thus given to the production of a simple,
natural style of art craftsmanship has not, however,
yet filtered through to the trade. There is no lack
of artists, no lack of good craftsmen, all that is
really needed is the education of the public and
the manufacturer who caters for the public.
M. G.
The designs for embroidery are equally re-
markable for what may be called the natural,
healthy beauty of their form and colouring.
They are worked out in Bohemian, Moravian
and Slavonian villages with rare skill, and in
many a remote district a new impulse has of
recent years been given to domestic industries.
In many cases, however, the patterns and colour
schemes have been handed down from genera-
tion to generation, exercising a very great in-
fluence upon the taste of the present day.
Indeed, we find technical methods, such as were
employed hundreds of years ago, in general use
in modern times, so that the new activity
is rather a revival, with modern modifications,
than an absolutely fresh departure.
Designs sketched on vellum or parchment by
Professor Kastner have been, at his wish, worked
out in the School of Embroidery. In suitable
environment these designs are thoroughly effec-
tive, but such environment is actually essential
to their success, and they are, as a general rule,
LETTER-CASE BY PROFESSOR E. NOVAK
LETTER-CASE BY PROFESSOR E. NOVAK
only in the right place in the houses for which they
have been specially made.
Bohemian artists have done much to encourage
art craftsmanship in their native land, and very
great strides in advance have been made in that
direction; indeed, the Bohemians may now pride
themselves on having a certain number of followers
and imitators. At the Paris Exhibition their work
attracted a great deal of attention. We may name
in this connection, as especially successful, Ian
Kotera, Mauder and Nemec. Professor Scala,
Director of the Austrian Museum, manifested
a very great interest in their exhibits. In the
capital of Bohemia itself also, the efforts of native
artists have had a very marked result on the taste of
the public who patronize the shops. The new
impulse thus given to the production of a simple,
natural style of art craftsmanship has not, however,
yet filtered through to the trade. There is no lack
of artists, no lack of good craftsmen, all that is
really needed is the education of the public and
the manufacturer who caters for the public.
M. G.