DOI Heft:
No. 126 (September, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19879#0317
Studio- Talk
"THE LOVE-STRICKEN PAGE" BY DOMENICO MORELLI
(See Rome Studio- Talk)
the names of MM. Bejot, Dircks, Giron, Max, ideal of the complete sculptor, who is artist and
Minartz, and Vieillard, the last-named showing artisan, creator and worker, in one.
great advance in his vigorous and life-like drawings. -
As for M. Francis Jourdain, by turns engraver, In the Bernheim Galleries we have just had an
water-colourist, and, especially, decorator, I shall interesting exhibition by French humorists, among
have an opportunity soon of referring to him at the most notable things being the witty and delicate
greater length. drawings of Leandre, the bolder, cruder efforts of
- Hermann Paul, and Sem's laughable silhouettes. But
Every work by M. Jean Dampt is marked so why did not the organisers of this exhibition give
plainly by the stamp of a rare personality that not the chief place he deserves to Forain, the un-
even the smallest production of this artist—whose contested master, without whom the history of the
hardest task is to satisfy himself—should be modem croquis de maiurs would be altogether
passed over in silence. Unhappily, M. Dampt incomplete?
troubles very little about the public, the result H. F.
being that his sculptures usually pass from his
own atelier straight into private collections without IW UNICH.—The International Exhibition
having been displayed in the exhibitions. Thus organised by the Society of the Seces-
The Studio is fortunate in being enabled to re- / V 1 s'on in Municn> in the building on the
produce a remarkable Head of a Child (p. 302), AT*. Konigsplatz, shows more character than
which figured in the last Salon. Herein one per- that of last year; still the fact cannot be disguised
ceives the sculptor's art—simple, moving and concise that the representatives of the movement have
—and, above all, his admirable knowledge of the come to a deadlock. The founders and more
various techniques. For M. Dampt, whether he famous men of the school, Stuck, Uhde, Keller and
work in wood, in ivory, or in marble—in this others, have long passed the summit of their en-
case it is greyish-pink marble—does everything deavour; and the clever young artists of modern
himself, from first to last. No artist could possibly Munich do not adhere to the Secession, but look
be more familiar with the spirit, the "logic," of every for their inspiration to the remote past, and work
material; he stands almost alone in realising the together in small associations or for the illustrated
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"THE LOVE-STRICKEN PAGE" BY DOMENICO MORELLI
(See Rome Studio- Talk)
the names of MM. Bejot, Dircks, Giron, Max, ideal of the complete sculptor, who is artist and
Minartz, and Vieillard, the last-named showing artisan, creator and worker, in one.
great advance in his vigorous and life-like drawings. -
As for M. Francis Jourdain, by turns engraver, In the Bernheim Galleries we have just had an
water-colourist, and, especially, decorator, I shall interesting exhibition by French humorists, among
have an opportunity soon of referring to him at the most notable things being the witty and delicate
greater length. drawings of Leandre, the bolder, cruder efforts of
- Hermann Paul, and Sem's laughable silhouettes. But
Every work by M. Jean Dampt is marked so why did not the organisers of this exhibition give
plainly by the stamp of a rare personality that not the chief place he deserves to Forain, the un-
even the smallest production of this artist—whose contested master, without whom the history of the
hardest task is to satisfy himself—should be modem croquis de maiurs would be altogether
passed over in silence. Unhappily, M. Dampt incomplete?
troubles very little about the public, the result H. F.
being that his sculptures usually pass from his
own atelier straight into private collections without IW UNICH.—The International Exhibition
having been displayed in the exhibitions. Thus organised by the Society of the Seces-
The Studio is fortunate in being enabled to re- / V 1 s'on in Municn> in the building on the
produce a remarkable Head of a Child (p. 302), AT*. Konigsplatz, shows more character than
which figured in the last Salon. Herein one per- that of last year; still the fact cannot be disguised
ceives the sculptor's art—simple, moving and concise that the representatives of the movement have
—and, above all, his admirable knowledge of the come to a deadlock. The founders and more
various techniques. For M. Dampt, whether he famous men of the school, Stuck, Uhde, Keller and
work in wood, in ivory, or in marble—in this others, have long passed the summit of their en-
case it is greyish-pink marble—does everything deavour; and the clever young artists of modern
himself, from first to last. No artist could possibly Munich do not adhere to the Secession, but look
be more familiar with the spirit, the "logic," of every for their inspiration to the remote past, and work
material; he stands almost alone in realising the together in small associations or for the illustrated
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