DOI Heft:
No. 110 (May, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19875#0304
Studio- Talk
"A COTTAGE INTERIOR" BY J. ALBERTS
to Munich, and finally became a pupil of Lefebvre iron stoves are ornamented with charming reliefs;
in Paris. Alberts at once chose his own home the beds are in alcoves, and have antique-patterned
and people for the subjects of his pictures. Off hangings ; a great many bright brass vessels and
the coast of Schleswig lie a group of small islands utensils decorate shelves and walls ; artistic paint-
called the Hallig Isles. At high tide they are ing is introduced wherever suitable, on chairs,
mere specks on the water. The largest has a cupboards, and walls, green being the favourite
circumference of only a few miles, and some are colour used. On entering one of these houses
only a few yards square. Owing to the frequent one is immediately struck by the bright and gay
encroachments made by the sea, they are gradually effect produced, and a close study of the objects
disappearing; no doubt at one time they formed such a home contains is of the greatest interest,
part of the mainland. The inhabitants of these From these homes and their surroundings Alberts
islands have retained the culture of former times has taken his subjects.
—that of the Netherlands in the seventeenth -
century. With the greatest care every artistic relic Severe and peculiar, like his home, is Alberts'
of those days has been preserved. painting ; there is nothing in his pictures to remind
- one of the Diisseldorf, Munich, and Paris teachings.
As on the whole of the Northern coast, so it is Somewhat dull in colour, they have a more objec-
on the Hallig Isles; the old cabin style of house tive than picturesque attraction, but they please by
has been retained, and the dwellings are all very their manifest sincerity and warmth of feeling,
similar, both as regards exterior and interior. The His later works have been mostly landscapes, and
walls of the rooms are of valuable Dutch tiles; the there is real art in the manner in which he treats
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"A COTTAGE INTERIOR" BY J. ALBERTS
to Munich, and finally became a pupil of Lefebvre iron stoves are ornamented with charming reliefs;
in Paris. Alberts at once chose his own home the beds are in alcoves, and have antique-patterned
and people for the subjects of his pictures. Off hangings ; a great many bright brass vessels and
the coast of Schleswig lie a group of small islands utensils decorate shelves and walls ; artistic paint-
called the Hallig Isles. At high tide they are ing is introduced wherever suitable, on chairs,
mere specks on the water. The largest has a cupboards, and walls, green being the favourite
circumference of only a few miles, and some are colour used. On entering one of these houses
only a few yards square. Owing to the frequent one is immediately struck by the bright and gay
encroachments made by the sea, they are gradually effect produced, and a close study of the objects
disappearing; no doubt at one time they formed such a home contains is of the greatest interest,
part of the mainland. The inhabitants of these From these homes and their surroundings Alberts
islands have retained the culture of former times has taken his subjects.
—that of the Netherlands in the seventeenth -
century. With the greatest care every artistic relic Severe and peculiar, like his home, is Alberts'
of those days has been preserved. painting ; there is nothing in his pictures to remind
- one of the Diisseldorf, Munich, and Paris teachings.
As on the whole of the Northern coast, so it is Somewhat dull in colour, they have a more objec-
on the Hallig Isles; the old cabin style of house tive than picturesque attraction, but they please by
has been retained, and the dwellings are all very their manifest sincerity and warmth of feeling,
similar, both as regards exterior and interior. The His later works have been mostly landscapes, and
walls of the rooms are of valuable Dutch tiles; the there is real art in the manner in which he treats
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