DOI Heft:
No. 104 (November, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0152
Studio- Talk
"THE PLOUGHMAN " FROM A CHROMO-LITHOGRAPH BY WALTER GEORGI
(See Dresden Studio-Talk.)
we see none but good art around and about ing out what he created. Vienna was his next
us- we will without an effort reach a stage of resting-place. Here he attended the Imperial
culture that no professed teaching can lead us up Arts and Crafts Schools under Prof. Kuhne,
to. H. W. S. and was successful in carrying off many prizes.
Munich, too, sheltered the young student; in
VIENNA.-The art of carving is inborn that city he worked entirely alone, and from
with the Tyrolese. One sees it in their there, naturally, he went to Pans. Here his
rude figures of the Virgin and Saviour, remarkable gifts were soon recognised for a
which are so much en 'evidence in travel- the Exhibition in the Salon du Champ de Mars
ling through their land, and in the carved quaint in 1893, when the artist was in his twenty-
forms, often very artistically carried out, which first year, his bronzes there shown at once
can be bought in every Tyrolese village for a mere brought him into public notice. One of these a
^ng. Though bom in Muhldorf, Bavaria, Gustave door-knocker, the or.ginal of which was bought
Gurschner is of Tyrolese descent. As soon as the for the Museum in Salliera, has already been
boy had completed the necessary school course, reproduced in The Studio. And at the Paris
he went to Bozen, in South Tyrol, to study in Exhibition, 1900, Mr. Gurschner gained a bronze
the well-known schools of art and industries medal for his designs and a silver one for his
there. Visitors to Bozen will remember the shop bronzes. In the early part of his career the young
under the old arcades and wonder at the richness sculptor devoted himself to monumental groups
of conception, variety of design, and originality and portrait busts of which one, of the Archduke
of ideas shown in the work of the students, Ferdinand Karl, has an honoured place in the
often simple peasants, there exposed for sale or Berg Isel Museum, Innsbruck. But he soon
exhibition. Gurschner soon proved his master abandoned these for small figures—women, tall,
mind, for not only did he show great power of slender, and full of grace. Mr. Gurschner seldom
^agination, but a remarkable facility in carry- fails to combine the beautiful and the practical,
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"THE PLOUGHMAN " FROM A CHROMO-LITHOGRAPH BY WALTER GEORGI
(See Dresden Studio-Talk.)
we see none but good art around and about ing out what he created. Vienna was his next
us- we will without an effort reach a stage of resting-place. Here he attended the Imperial
culture that no professed teaching can lead us up Arts and Crafts Schools under Prof. Kuhne,
to. H. W. S. and was successful in carrying off many prizes.
Munich, too, sheltered the young student; in
VIENNA.-The art of carving is inborn that city he worked entirely alone, and from
with the Tyrolese. One sees it in their there, naturally, he went to Pans. Here his
rude figures of the Virgin and Saviour, remarkable gifts were soon recognised for a
which are so much en 'evidence in travel- the Exhibition in the Salon du Champ de Mars
ling through their land, and in the carved quaint in 1893, when the artist was in his twenty-
forms, often very artistically carried out, which first year, his bronzes there shown at once
can be bought in every Tyrolese village for a mere brought him into public notice. One of these a
^ng. Though bom in Muhldorf, Bavaria, Gustave door-knocker, the or.ginal of which was bought
Gurschner is of Tyrolese descent. As soon as the for the Museum in Salliera, has already been
boy had completed the necessary school course, reproduced in The Studio. And at the Paris
he went to Bozen, in South Tyrol, to study in Exhibition, 1900, Mr. Gurschner gained a bronze
the well-known schools of art and industries medal for his designs and a silver one for his
there. Visitors to Bozen will remember the shop bronzes. In the early part of his career the young
under the old arcades and wonder at the richness sculptor devoted himself to monumental groups
of conception, variety of design, and originality and portrait busts of which one, of the Archduke
of ideas shown in the work of the students, Ferdinand Karl, has an honoured place in the
often simple peasants, there exposed for sale or Berg Isel Museum, Innsbruck. But he soon
exhibition. Gurschner soon proved his master abandoned these for small figures—women, tall,
mind, for not only did he show great power of slender, and full of grace. Mr. Gurschner seldom
^agination, but a remarkable facility in carry- fails to combine the beautiful and the practical,
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