DOI issue:
Nr. 100 (July 1901)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19788#0168
Studio- Talk
that is, of causing nations
to lose touch with the
greatest minds in the
history of literature. And
this being so, it is worth
while to see in what
manner Mr. J. Kowarzik
represents Goethe to the
military and commercial
mind of present-day Ger-
many. Heine said that in
talking with Goethe he
involuntarily looked at his
side for the eagle of Zeus.
Mr. Kowarzik sees by the
side of Goethe the figure
ot Lotte, who, in the first
part of " Werther," is a
symbol of beauty and
youth and unselfishness.
In the background to the
left two other feminine
figures are modelled in flat
. . relief; they represent the
poet's first love, Gretchen,
and Frederika Brion, the
Alsatian girl of Sesenheim.
Some of the women who,
3**** like Charlotte von Stein,
----- . ' influenced Goethe in later
'- ■ /* ^ , years, are shown in the
background on the right.
Thus the medal on its
bust by i. kowarzik reverse side _ is entirely
feminine, and it is possible
that English students of
Goethe care least of all
courage enough to speak ot the uncommonly for his philandering with female friendships. The
good plums that grew by the wayside between obverse side will be understood at a glance, for it
Jena and Weimar. associates Goethe with that romance and patriotism
-- which the Rhine inspires in all true Germans.
i.
r
It seems impossible that anyformof artshould now -
be able to give us anything but a formal and cold Mr. Kowarzik is a sculptor as well as a medal-
representation of Goethe's presence and expression, list, and it is a pleasure to give an illustration
But the office of art may be beneficial in many here of an admirable bust that he has recently
humble ways, and Mr. J. Kowarzik, in his medal of brought to completion.
Goethe (page 144), makes use of one such way—
reminding his countrymen of the great fact that Ik IW ELBOURNE.—The Third Annual Ex-
their national progress will be shortlived if they / m / I hibition of the Yarra Sculptors' Society
allow the occupations of the present time to oust / V 1 was °Penec' on Friday, the nth of
from their memories the wisdom ot such men as January, by Mr. S. Gillott, Mayor of
Goethe. The medallist's art may do much in all Melbourne. The exhibits, which numbered about
countries to counteract one bad tendency of news- 160, were of a more varied character than is
papers and popular new novels; the tendency, usually shown in an exhibition of this kind in
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that is, of causing nations
to lose touch with the
greatest minds in the
history of literature. And
this being so, it is worth
while to see in what
manner Mr. J. Kowarzik
represents Goethe to the
military and commercial
mind of present-day Ger-
many. Heine said that in
talking with Goethe he
involuntarily looked at his
side for the eagle of Zeus.
Mr. Kowarzik sees by the
side of Goethe the figure
ot Lotte, who, in the first
part of " Werther," is a
symbol of beauty and
youth and unselfishness.
In the background to the
left two other feminine
figures are modelled in flat
. . relief; they represent the
poet's first love, Gretchen,
and Frederika Brion, the
Alsatian girl of Sesenheim.
Some of the women who,
3**** like Charlotte von Stein,
----- . ' influenced Goethe in later
'- ■ /* ^ , years, are shown in the
background on the right.
Thus the medal on its
bust by i. kowarzik reverse side _ is entirely
feminine, and it is possible
that English students of
Goethe care least of all
courage enough to speak ot the uncommonly for his philandering with female friendships. The
good plums that grew by the wayside between obverse side will be understood at a glance, for it
Jena and Weimar. associates Goethe with that romance and patriotism
-- which the Rhine inspires in all true Germans.
i.
r
It seems impossible that anyformof artshould now -
be able to give us anything but a formal and cold Mr. Kowarzik is a sculptor as well as a medal-
representation of Goethe's presence and expression, list, and it is a pleasure to give an illustration
But the office of art may be beneficial in many here of an admirable bust that he has recently
humble ways, and Mr. J. Kowarzik, in his medal of brought to completion.
Goethe (page 144), makes use of one such way—
reminding his countrymen of the great fact that Ik IW ELBOURNE.—The Third Annual Ex-
their national progress will be shortlived if they / m / I hibition of the Yarra Sculptors' Society
allow the occupations of the present time to oust / V 1 was °Penec' on Friday, the nth of
from their memories the wisdom ot such men as January, by Mr. S. Gillott, Mayor of
Goethe. The medallist's art may do much in all Melbourne. The exhibits, which numbered about
countries to counteract one bad tendency of news- 160, were of a more varied character than is
papers and popular new novels; the tendency, usually shown in an exhibition of this kind in
143