DOI Heft:
No. 131 (February, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0096
Studio-Talk
landscape artists who
painted subjects from the
Goppeln heights. Those
were the days when
plein air was in vogue.
A love ot nature —
pure and simple — had
come upon artists and
they sought to paint her
unadorned. Perhaps one
might express it this way,
that instead of digesting
whatever motij they
selected, they sunk their
personality altogether in
it; and in these Goppeln
pictures nature looks not
as the individual eye of
any one of these painters
might see it, but as all
of us (as long as a too
close acquaintance with
old paintings had not
spoiled our vision) might
see it. Later on Besig
accompanied his friend
Mtiller-Breslau to Silesia,
where he gradually
acquired a more personal
style. He has come to
love deep, rich colour-
" autumn sun" by Walter besig ing, and as the examples
reproduced discover, he
has, along with the rest,
design, always in different hues. The whole is execu- abandoned the somewhat questionable realism of
ted by the firm of Liebert Bros, in opalescent glass, earlier days. H.W.S.
mounted in the manner of mosaics on a metal
panel. The treatment of the drapery is remark-
ably happy : each dress is made up of two different
hues, representing the folds in a high light and
those in the shade, somewhat in the fashion of the
quattro-cento fresco painters, who reduced their
gamut in the painting of drapery also to two
tones, a lighter and a darker one. Besides the
elegance exhibited in the design, this frieze
displays the beauty of the material to the
best advantage.
Walter Besig appeared first, a decade or so ago, in
the part of a rather mild water-colour landscapist,
inclining to old-fashioned ideas and an obsolete
style. His connection with the quondam
" Secession " here soon changed that, and he —-—^ ■
figured prominently among the group of Dresden medal by rudolf mayer.
80
landscape artists who
painted subjects from the
Goppeln heights. Those
were the days when
plein air was in vogue.
A love ot nature —
pure and simple — had
come upon artists and
they sought to paint her
unadorned. Perhaps one
might express it this way,
that instead of digesting
whatever motij they
selected, they sunk their
personality altogether in
it; and in these Goppeln
pictures nature looks not
as the individual eye of
any one of these painters
might see it, but as all
of us (as long as a too
close acquaintance with
old paintings had not
spoiled our vision) might
see it. Later on Besig
accompanied his friend
Mtiller-Breslau to Silesia,
where he gradually
acquired a more personal
style. He has come to
love deep, rich colour-
" autumn sun" by Walter besig ing, and as the examples
reproduced discover, he
has, along with the rest,
design, always in different hues. The whole is execu- abandoned the somewhat questionable realism of
ted by the firm of Liebert Bros, in opalescent glass, earlier days. H.W.S.
mounted in the manner of mosaics on a metal
panel. The treatment of the drapery is remark-
ably happy : each dress is made up of two different
hues, representing the folds in a high light and
those in the shade, somewhat in the fashion of the
quattro-cento fresco painters, who reduced their
gamut in the painting of drapery also to two
tones, a lighter and a darker one. Besides the
elegance exhibited in the design, this frieze
displays the beauty of the material to the
best advantage.
Walter Besig appeared first, a decade or so ago, in
the part of a rather mild water-colour landscapist,
inclining to old-fashioned ideas and an obsolete
style. His connection with the quondam
" Secession " here soon changed that, and he —-—^ ■
figured prominently among the group of Dresden medal by rudolf mayer.
80