DOI Heft:
No. 105 (December, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0219
Sttidio- Talk
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SCREEN BY ED. WIEGAND
(See Budapest Studio-Talk)
arts. There is on foot a movement to make art a
study full of amusement in all schools, and not
merely a recurring lesson, made stiff and formal
and hateful by means of set rules and of stern
tutorial discipline. There is also, both in Govern-
ment circles and in nearly all the manufactories, a
far-sighted alertness to the practical value of good
design, and the best efforts are being made to take
full advantage of the hints to be got out of the
best work done by other countries, and by England
above all the rest. As an example of this, an
interesting little story may be told here. A few
months ago, in a competition for jewellery, The
Studio published a set of suggestive designs,
printed in colours. The German jewellery trade
took instant notice of this fact, as an example
which its own papers ought to follow.
And this is but one illustration of the plain fact
that German manufacturers are determined, if at
all possible, to wrest from British craftsmen and
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designers their initiative supremacy in the applied
ait campaign. Should they succeed in doing this,
as France, years ago, on principles derived from
Constable and Crome, succeeded in establishing
art schools for a host of English students, then a
fair fight will have gone against England. It is a
great thing, indeed, for a nation to do what
England has done—i.e., to start a world-wide
movement in art; but a still greater thing is to
maintain a leading position by the wise and
general use made of all good and original sug-
gestions. Germany now challenges that position,
and a nation reared up in discipline is certain to
be a patient, formidable rival. In Berlin, mean-
time, two or three phases of English decorative
art provoke not a little surprise; they run back
into the past away from the age we live in; they
seem like enchanted rivers flowing through a
fairyland away from the sea. Take the art of
embroidery as an illustration of this. London has
several schools for the encouragement of this useful
"A STUDY HOLD-ALL" DESIGNED BY ED. WIEGAND
(See Budapest Studio-Talk)
■
SCREEN BY ED. WIEGAND
(See Budapest Studio-Talk)
arts. There is on foot a movement to make art a
study full of amusement in all schools, and not
merely a recurring lesson, made stiff and formal
and hateful by means of set rules and of stern
tutorial discipline. There is also, both in Govern-
ment circles and in nearly all the manufactories, a
far-sighted alertness to the practical value of good
design, and the best efforts are being made to take
full advantage of the hints to be got out of the
best work done by other countries, and by England
above all the rest. As an example of this, an
interesting little story may be told here. A few
months ago, in a competition for jewellery, The
Studio published a set of suggestive designs,
printed in colours. The German jewellery trade
took instant notice of this fact, as an example
which its own papers ought to follow.
And this is but one illustration of the plain fact
that German manufacturers are determined, if at
all possible, to wrest from British craftsmen and
206
designers their initiative supremacy in the applied
ait campaign. Should they succeed in doing this,
as France, years ago, on principles derived from
Constable and Crome, succeeded in establishing
art schools for a host of English students, then a
fair fight will have gone against England. It is a
great thing, indeed, for a nation to do what
England has done—i.e., to start a world-wide
movement in art; but a still greater thing is to
maintain a leading position by the wise and
general use made of all good and original sug-
gestions. Germany now challenges that position,
and a nation reared up in discipline is certain to
be a patient, formidable rival. In Berlin, mean-
time, two or three phases of English decorative
art provoke not a little surprise; they run back
into the past away from the age we live in; they
seem like enchanted rivers flowing through a
fairyland away from the sea. Take the art of
embroidery as an illustration of this. London has
several schools for the encouragement of this useful
"A STUDY HOLD-ALL" DESIGNED BY ED. WIEGAND
(See Budapest Studio-Talk)