DOI Heft:
No. 105 (December, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0221
Studio- Talk
curved lines. This is so in his design of Alga (a kind of seaweed)
and fish, that is reproduced here from a table centre of light cloth,
mounted on green silk moire. Nevertheless, Mr. Dressler's inven-
tion is always interesting, and as long as he has faults to correct
he may be happy as an artist.
BUDAPEST.—In this city the applied art movement
continues brisk, and, owing in part to the self-restraint
of the craftsmen engaged in its advancement, and in
part to the fact that a high and just value is still
placed on the influence of the most virile English designers, the
movement is not running very wild here in the production of
eye-teazing, ephemeral trifles, called " novelties in the new
manner." Held pretty well in hand, kept fairly well under
control, it does not show many signs of that excess of decora-
tive detail which began to appear some little while ago both
in French and in German craftsmanship, which resulted, some-
times, in the actual realisation of a design being almost as unstruc-
tural in character as inopportune diligence could well make it.
In Budapest, craftsmen strive to employ ornament, not as a
thing to challenge admiration solely on its own account, but
simply as an enrichment of the forms of building logic
required in the use of the various materials employed by the
applied arts. Their aim is to keep constantly in mind the fact
that good design in household necessaries is a simple and a
Wfm
curio cabinet by ed. wikgand
art, but what real good can
be done by their custom of
duplicating old examples of
fine needlework ? Would
it not be well if the Royal
School of Art Needlework
at South Kensington were
to encourage such a dis-
play of individual feeling
as Mr. Willy 0. Dressier,
of Berlin, shows in his
embroideries ? True it is,
no doubt, that Mr. Dress-
ler's work is sometimes
rather confused by a
multiplicity of flowing, model of a sarcophagus by h. hultzsch
208
curved lines. This is so in his design of Alga (a kind of seaweed)
and fish, that is reproduced here from a table centre of light cloth,
mounted on green silk moire. Nevertheless, Mr. Dressler's inven-
tion is always interesting, and as long as he has faults to correct
he may be happy as an artist.
BUDAPEST.—In this city the applied art movement
continues brisk, and, owing in part to the self-restraint
of the craftsmen engaged in its advancement, and in
part to the fact that a high and just value is still
placed on the influence of the most virile English designers, the
movement is not running very wild here in the production of
eye-teazing, ephemeral trifles, called " novelties in the new
manner." Held pretty well in hand, kept fairly well under
control, it does not show many signs of that excess of decora-
tive detail which began to appear some little while ago both
in French and in German craftsmanship, which resulted, some-
times, in the actual realisation of a design being almost as unstruc-
tural in character as inopportune diligence could well make it.
In Budapest, craftsmen strive to employ ornament, not as a
thing to challenge admiration solely on its own account, but
simply as an enrichment of the forms of building logic
required in the use of the various materials employed by the
applied arts. Their aim is to keep constantly in mind the fact
that good design in household necessaries is a simple and a
Wfm
curio cabinet by ed. wikgand
art, but what real good can
be done by their custom of
duplicating old examples of
fine needlework ? Would
it not be well if the Royal
School of Art Needlework
at South Kensington were
to encourage such a dis-
play of individual feeling
as Mr. Willy 0. Dressier,
of Berlin, shows in his
embroideries ? True it is,
no doubt, that Mr. Dress-
ler's work is sometimes
rather confused by a
multiplicity of flowing, model of a sarcophagus by h. hultzsch
208