Studio: international art (34.1905)

Studio-Talk

CHANNEL IN AMSTERDAM " BY CARL VON COULON

DRESDEN—We
give illustra-
tions on page
78 of a medal
and a plaquette by Alex-
ander Kraumann. The
Gold Medal for the Venice
Fine Art Exhibition, 1903,
is rather full of detail on
the obverse, but it is cleverly
reminiscentof Venice's one-
time Byzantine glory. This
artist's plaquettes are exem-
plary in their distribution
of light and shade, and the
modelling is in an admi-
rable, large spirit, though
in single parts the propor-
tions may not be quite
beyond criticism. One of
these plaquettes celebrates
the opening of a new source
in one of the Continental
baths; the others, I believe,
have no reference to any
particular person or event.

H. W. S.

plastic art, and knows well exactly what is needed !■ JW UNICH.—At the beginning of his career

With him form is everything ; he ignores the merely I y 1 paintings are here illustrated, followed
picturesque, and recognises that sculpture is not the ATA m0re or less usual traditions ; but
right medium for the expression of agitated move- the well-trodden path, the easy road, if not to
ment; his work is thoroughly well balanced, dig- fame, at least to notice, did not suit him long;
nified, and reserved—the central motive is never he began his studies again under his own guid-
blurred by the introduction of any extraneous ance. His work tells us at once that the
detail. His standing and seated figures reflect principal labour was not done in the studio, but
the calm, contemplative Hungarian tempera- always with and before his model and master
ment, and he evidently knows well that passion —Nature. The rule of his studio was that
or emotion would be quite out of place in the eye has to learn much more than the
them. His portraits of his fellow-countrymen hand — a fact which is too often forgotten,
and women are true likenesses, and his ideal Dutch landscape and the great Dutch land-
groups are equally remarkable for their severe scape painters, which he thoroughly studied,
simplicity. have had the most powerful influence on his
- development.

Not yet thirty years old, Teles has already won

a great reputation, especially by his statuettes ; but If he paints laughing spring, the rich glow and

his designs for the Monument to the late Empress coloured glory of summer, autumn's deep yearning

Elizabeth, consort of the Emperor Francis Joseph, or winter's icy brilliancy, the mist rising from the

that to the Hungarian poet Vorosmarthy, and the river, or the cottage at the corner of the road—his

one for the Mausoleum of the patriot Kossuth, whole aim is to give us nature, nature as the

prove that he can also deal successfully with artist saw it full of the richness, depth and variety

commemorative sculpture. O. R. of his feeling. A. S. T.
So