DOI issue:
No. 138 (September, 1904)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0378
Studio-Talk
effect of their poverty, but how it has penetrated to Thorn Prikker (Rysvvyk), Wilhelm Laage (Stuttgart),
the very core, for they seem thoroughly impregnated Axel Gallen (Finland). There are also some pic-
with it. A Summer Night on the Beach is a daring, tures by Hans von Marees, who died in 1887, and
and at the same time, successful attempt at colour- whose merit lies in the fact that his was the initia-
isation. The rays of the setting sun tint every- tion of the line drawing, most of his works being in
thing with a golden tinge, from the faces of the the Royal Gallery in Schleisheim. A. S. L.
pier passengers to the water, everything is cast in a
bath of light, the only relief being the shadows I "V UDAPEST.—Ten years ago what may
round the wooden supports of the pier. Beim I ^ be called official art still flourished in
Waschen (Washing Day) is a charming piece of I ■ Hungary, the sort of thing the Emperor
realism : one can almost smell the soapsuds and William is so anxious to create in
feel the wind which is gently swaying the clothes Germany. The public—who were not then edu-
on the line to and fro ; behind are touches of red, cated up to the idea that art may exist apart from
and the whole is breathing of the atmosphere luxury—could not or would not encourage the
around it. In Der Tod und das Kind (Death and efforts of individual artists, so that such artists
the Child) we are face to face with another event depended entirely on State patronage, working
of daily occurrence. The tones are grey in grey : exclusively for government officials. Some few of
the little one in the foreground is filled with in- the wealthy municipalities did their best according
describable terror, knowing not what the figure lying to their lights to encourage what they considered
so still in the background means ; but the fearful good work, giving commissions for great historical
coldness surrounding has infected the child, who compositions; but in these art was by no means
is supporting her head. with both hands as if the first consideration, the most important point
to prevent it from assuming the rigid stiffness being the introduction of famous heroes, actual por-
of the dead woman seen in the background, traits of the ancestors of reigning families, whether
Among the other exhibitors are Ludwig von they had made their mark in the history of their
Hoffmann (Weimar), Cuno Amiet (Switzerland), country or not.
"THE MARSH" BY BARON L. MEDNYANSZKY
354
effect of their poverty, but how it has penetrated to Thorn Prikker (Rysvvyk), Wilhelm Laage (Stuttgart),
the very core, for they seem thoroughly impregnated Axel Gallen (Finland). There are also some pic-
with it. A Summer Night on the Beach is a daring, tures by Hans von Marees, who died in 1887, and
and at the same time, successful attempt at colour- whose merit lies in the fact that his was the initia-
isation. The rays of the setting sun tint every- tion of the line drawing, most of his works being in
thing with a golden tinge, from the faces of the the Royal Gallery in Schleisheim. A. S. L.
pier passengers to the water, everything is cast in a
bath of light, the only relief being the shadows I "V UDAPEST.—Ten years ago what may
round the wooden supports of the pier. Beim I ^ be called official art still flourished in
Waschen (Washing Day) is a charming piece of I ■ Hungary, the sort of thing the Emperor
realism : one can almost smell the soapsuds and William is so anxious to create in
feel the wind which is gently swaying the clothes Germany. The public—who were not then edu-
on the line to and fro ; behind are touches of red, cated up to the idea that art may exist apart from
and the whole is breathing of the atmosphere luxury—could not or would not encourage the
around it. In Der Tod und das Kind (Death and efforts of individual artists, so that such artists
the Child) we are face to face with another event depended entirely on State patronage, working
of daily occurrence. The tones are grey in grey : exclusively for government officials. Some few of
the little one in the foreground is filled with in- the wealthy municipalities did their best according
describable terror, knowing not what the figure lying to their lights to encourage what they considered
so still in the background means ; but the fearful good work, giving commissions for great historical
coldness surrounding has infected the child, who compositions; but in these art was by no means
is supporting her head. with both hands as if the first consideration, the most important point
to prevent it from assuming the rigid stiffness being the introduction of famous heroes, actual por-
of the dead woman seen in the background, traits of the ancestors of reigning families, whether
Among the other exhibitors are Ludwig von they had made their mark in the history of their
Hoffmann (Weimar), Cuno Amiet (Switzerland), country or not.
"THE MARSH" BY BARON L. MEDNYANSZKY
354