DOI issue:
No. 132 ( March, 1904)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0186
Studio- Talk
MARBLE BUST BY OTTO HOFNER
CERAMICS BY BRUNO EMMEL CODING
These show much originality and judgment. The ticularly refreshing—especially so, I should say, on
work—which is executed by the artist himself— a hot summer's day; there is an air of much
is carried out in stucco, cement, and beaten metal. daintiness about it. The framework is of alder
Herr Schufinsky also showed much taste in the wood polished black; the backs and seats are
arrangement of some of the rooms. Herr Otto of wicker-work painted white with enamel.
Hofner sent many pieces of sculpture which showed Fraulein Krasnik is very versatile in her designs,
that he is a sound artist who has a future before and is, besides, many-sided; at present she has
him. A Fisher?nan is very realistic—the sculptor devoted herself to no one particular branch of her
having been particularly happy in catching the right art. Alexander Hartmann shows great aptitude in
expression. In his marble bust, set with onyx, his book illustrations and his designs for litho-
copper, and mother-of-pearl, Herr Hofner is again graphs. He is rich in ideas and possesses a firm
worthy of praise, not only in the execution of his hand, and we may expect to hear more of him in
work, but also in the mosaic setting, where the the future. Altogether enough proof has been
blending of the colours and the design are both given to show that the pupils in the Imperial
very beautiful. Bruno Emmel has a fine and Schools are working in the right direction, and
delicate feeling and touch for ceramics, both in are seeking ways for themselves of expressing
designing and modelling them. Two of his vases their thoughts. A. S. L.
have been bought by the Cultus Ministerium
for the Modern Gallery. These are of rich p~X UCHAREST. —There has lately been
colouring and form, one being all shades of browns I £ formed in Bucharest an association call-
with touches of bronze, while a delicate film of 1 ing itself "Artistic Youth," under the
green winds its way in and out, thus intensi- * royal patronage of the Princess Marie of
fying the ground tones ; and the other blue on Roumania, herself an artist. The infant society at
blue, with lines of old silver. Fraulein Antoinette once was able to organise an exhibition, which gives
Krasnik, a young Croatian, conceived the idea of me here the opportunity of very briefly introducing
a harmony in black and white for her interior, the youthful Roumanian School to a wider public.
which she arranged herself, the effect being par- It consists of a small but very promising body of
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MARBLE BUST BY OTTO HOFNER
CERAMICS BY BRUNO EMMEL CODING
These show much originality and judgment. The ticularly refreshing—especially so, I should say, on
work—which is executed by the artist himself— a hot summer's day; there is an air of much
is carried out in stucco, cement, and beaten metal. daintiness about it. The framework is of alder
Herr Schufinsky also showed much taste in the wood polished black; the backs and seats are
arrangement of some of the rooms. Herr Otto of wicker-work painted white with enamel.
Hofner sent many pieces of sculpture which showed Fraulein Krasnik is very versatile in her designs,
that he is a sound artist who has a future before and is, besides, many-sided; at present she has
him. A Fisher?nan is very realistic—the sculptor devoted herself to no one particular branch of her
having been particularly happy in catching the right art. Alexander Hartmann shows great aptitude in
expression. In his marble bust, set with onyx, his book illustrations and his designs for litho-
copper, and mother-of-pearl, Herr Hofner is again graphs. He is rich in ideas and possesses a firm
worthy of praise, not only in the execution of his hand, and we may expect to hear more of him in
work, but also in the mosaic setting, where the the future. Altogether enough proof has been
blending of the colours and the design are both given to show that the pupils in the Imperial
very beautiful. Bruno Emmel has a fine and Schools are working in the right direction, and
delicate feeling and touch for ceramics, both in are seeking ways for themselves of expressing
designing and modelling them. Two of his vases their thoughts. A. S. L.
have been bought by the Cultus Ministerium
for the Modern Gallery. These are of rich p~X UCHAREST. —There has lately been
colouring and form, one being all shades of browns I £ formed in Bucharest an association call-
with touches of bronze, while a delicate film of 1 ing itself "Artistic Youth," under the
green winds its way in and out, thus intensi- * royal patronage of the Princess Marie of
fying the ground tones ; and the other blue on Roumania, herself an artist. The infant society at
blue, with lines of old silver. Fraulein Antoinette once was able to organise an exhibition, which gives
Krasnik, a young Croatian, conceived the idea of me here the opportunity of very briefly introducing
a harmony in black and white for her interior, the youthful Roumanian School to a wider public.
which she arranged herself, the effect being par- It consists of a small but very promising body of
169