DOI Heft:
No. 135 (June, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0097
Studio- Talk
snow near the village, having wan-
dered from the path as he was cross-
ing the ice of the neighbouring
lake. The family was very poor, and
Juho earned his bread by a variety
of small services : carrying logs, may be,
or collecting ants' eggs for the village
chemist. He could neither read nor
write, but he knew the songs of the
" Kalevala " by heart, and never tired of
listening to the singers and of watch-
ing the faces of the hearers. He
soon besjan to draw these faces.
BOWL DESIGNED BY A. WALLANDER °
He drew them without idealisation,
as he saw them, with a tendency,
interesting, partly as a kind of representative of a like all inexperienced artists of his temperament,
past age and partly for the evolution he will still to caricature.
probably undergo, than wholly admirable in what he
has already produced. We cannot, however, under- He now apprenticed himself to a bookseller and
stand the position of one side or of the other then to a decorator. He learned to read; and
without knowing something of the artist's life. turned his knowledge to account by reading Smiles'
-- "Self-Help." This marked an epoch in his life.
Born in an out-of-the-way village in Finland, He took " character" and " perseverance" as his.
Rissanen was left an orphan while he was still watch-words, and by superhuman efforts managed
quite a boy. His father was found dead in the to get to Helsingfors to attend the drawing-schools.
snow near the village, having wan-
dered from the path as he was cross-
ing the ice of the neighbouring
lake. The family was very poor, and
Juho earned his bread by a variety
of small services : carrying logs, may be,
or collecting ants' eggs for the village
chemist. He could neither read nor
write, but he knew the songs of the
" Kalevala " by heart, and never tired of
listening to the singers and of watch-
ing the faces of the hearers. He
soon besjan to draw these faces.
BOWL DESIGNED BY A. WALLANDER °
He drew them without idealisation,
as he saw them, with a tendency,
interesting, partly as a kind of representative of a like all inexperienced artists of his temperament,
past age and partly for the evolution he will still to caricature.
probably undergo, than wholly admirable in what he
has already produced. We cannot, however, under- He now apprenticed himself to a bookseller and
stand the position of one side or of the other then to a decorator. He learned to read; and
without knowing something of the artist's life. turned his knowledge to account by reading Smiles'
-- "Self-Help." This marked an epoch in his life.
Born in an out-of-the-way village in Finland, He took " character" and " perseverance" as his.
Rissanen was left an orphan while he was still watch-words, and by superhuman efforts managed
quite a boy. His father was found dead in the to get to Helsingfors to attend the drawing-schools.