DOI Heft:
No. 111 (June, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Khnopff, Fernand: A belgian painter: M. Henri Cassiers
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19876#0025
Henri Cassiers
excellent master—in painting. He has acquired
a force, a certainty of touch and a solidity of
tone which generally appears to be incompatible
with the medium of water-colour. He has,
moreover, at the same time become more pro-
found, more susceptible to transient feeling—
we may even say more religious—in his work."
When pictorial post-cards became the fashion
in Belgium, Mr. Dietrich, the publisher, of Brussels,
was not slow to suggest to Cassiers that he should
execute a series of them, and very soon appeared,
amongst others, the Dutch Landscapes, Dutch
Costumes, the two series of Delft Cards in blue,
which were quickly succeeded by the facsimiles
of the water-colours known as the Big Mill,
Evening Effect, View of Dordrecht, The Four
' DUTCH MILKMAIDS" BY H. CASSIERS JIr- , •„ j r u r LL ^
(Published by MM. Dietrich et Cie., Brussels) Windmills, and the engravings, full of artistic
feeling, of the Dutch Milkmaids, two large plates
sensation is, as a rule, singularly disappointed; but printed in colour. The great success of all these
if he will be content with a brief but very delight- charming compositions is well-known, as is also that
ful impression of really beautiful art, of a "really fresh of the few posters by this versatile artist, which
impression of Nature, he will have no cause of are admirable in the humour of their design and
complaint. As usual, M. Cassiers will be found the force and brightness of their colouring,
to have proved himself a skilful and appreciative Fernand Khnoppf.
painter in water - colour,
whose skilful and sensitive
interpretations of the
fresh landscapes of Holland
and Flanders are full
of distinction and charm.
He excels in rendering
the soft and misty effects,
the tender and delicate
colouring of those low-lying
districts, in catching the
fleeting impressions of the
evening and the morning,
and, with his wonderfully
true eye for colour, he
now and then gives a tran-
script of some natural
scene full of the tenderest
sentiment, which simply
vibrates with sentient
charm. This artist, who
had already, as the French
say, ' arrived'—and had,
indeed, almost received the
stamp of official recognition
—has in this case taken a
completely new departure.
This pleasing artist has
shown himself all of a
sudden to be a master—an poster by h. cassiers
excellent master—in painting. He has acquired
a force, a certainty of touch and a solidity of
tone which generally appears to be incompatible
with the medium of water-colour. He has,
moreover, at the same time become more pro-
found, more susceptible to transient feeling—
we may even say more religious—in his work."
When pictorial post-cards became the fashion
in Belgium, Mr. Dietrich, the publisher, of Brussels,
was not slow to suggest to Cassiers that he should
execute a series of them, and very soon appeared,
amongst others, the Dutch Landscapes, Dutch
Costumes, the two series of Delft Cards in blue,
which were quickly succeeded by the facsimiles
of the water-colours known as the Big Mill,
Evening Effect, View of Dordrecht, The Four
' DUTCH MILKMAIDS" BY H. CASSIERS JIr- , •„ j r u r LL ^
(Published by MM. Dietrich et Cie., Brussels) Windmills, and the engravings, full of artistic
feeling, of the Dutch Milkmaids, two large plates
sensation is, as a rule, singularly disappointed; but printed in colour. The great success of all these
if he will be content with a brief but very delight- charming compositions is well-known, as is also that
ful impression of really beautiful art, of a "really fresh of the few posters by this versatile artist, which
impression of Nature, he will have no cause of are admirable in the humour of their design and
complaint. As usual, M. Cassiers will be found the force and brightness of their colouring,
to have proved himself a skilful and appreciative Fernand Khnoppf.
painter in water - colour,
whose skilful and sensitive
interpretations of the
fresh landscapes of Holland
and Flanders are full
of distinction and charm.
He excels in rendering
the soft and misty effects,
the tender and delicate
colouring of those low-lying
districts, in catching the
fleeting impressions of the
evening and the morning,
and, with his wonderfully
true eye for colour, he
now and then gives a tran-
script of some natural
scene full of the tenderest
sentiment, which simply
vibrates with sentient
charm. This artist, who
had already, as the French
say, ' arrived'—and had,
indeed, almost received the
stamp of official recognition
—has in this case taken a
completely new departure.
This pleasing artist has
shown himself all of a
sudden to be a master—an poster by h. cassiers