Studio: international art (24.1902)

Studio-Talk

PORTION OF A FRIEZE BY GUSTAVE HAHN

studio, where he carried out several church figures, School of Practical Science. A studio under the

two statues of King Albert of Saxony, besides many charge of competent professional architects, after

busts and portraits. Perhaps the most striking of the fashion of Continental ateliers, providing for iri-

any is the statue of Albrecht der Beherzte, at struction in the various subjects, and particularly

Meissen, which, in its attitude of haughty watch- in design, is now in operation, and promises to be

fulness, frowns down upon us in the courtyard of of great benefit to the students,

the castle. The American church at Dresden -

contains a font by Hultzsch, in which a kneeling The exhibition recently given by the Eighteen

angel, benign and tender, seems the very imper- Club, under the auspices of the American Archi-

sonation of a heavenly messenger. Hultzsch has tectural League, with which it is affiliated, brought

a marked gift for seizing individuality; and his collectively to the public notice much that is

statues of the King of Saxony and medallions meritorious in recent Canadian architecture, both

of his wife and the daughter of Professor Max of the work of the Club members and of the mem-

Miiller are brilliant examples of portraiture. bers of the parent Society—the Ontario Association

A. v. S. of Architects—as well as of members of different
branches of the League, including representatives
from New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, University

CANADA.—The Ontario Association of of Illinois, Architectural Club of Washington,

Architects, organised in 1889 and Drexel Institute, and Pennsylvania University,

incorporated in 1890, has for its The exhibition was varied in character—in all

objects "the advancement of archi- there were about four hundred designs—and gave

tecture, the better protection of public interests a fair idea of the architect's field, as well as a

in the erection of buildings, and the securing of decided hint as to the benefits accruing from the

a standard of efficiency in persons practising the closer co-operation of architects and decorators,

profession of architecture." A curriculum of -

studies, including the usual scientific and prac- The designs for buildings for commercial pur-

tical subjects and history of architecture, lays upon poses showed a careful consideration of the needs

the intending architect who would become a of modern commerce, with greater attention to

member of the Society a three years' course of light, more beauty of finish, both exterior and

serious study with a view to a higher standard of interior, and a careful consideration of sanitary

intelligence and a greater fund of practical know- conditions. Many offices gave evidence of in-

ledge than the past has called for. No student, creased attention to beauty in interior decoration,

indeed, is eligible for the examinations unless he Churches were sparsely represented, although

has acquired the foundation, at least, of a partial Toronto is noted for her churches and has

high-school course, or a course in the Ontario made decided advancement in church architec-