DOI Heft:
Nr. 144 (March 1905)
DOI Artikel:Some recent designs for domestic architecture
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20711#0188
Studio-Talk
coloured lights, and numerous other details, all only seen en face, but also in profile through a
combine to give a faithful picture of actualities looking-glass. A snow scene by Oscar Moll, a rising
which is worthy of great praise. Another interest- young Berlin artist, showed sincerity and soundness
ing work was Professor Adolph Oberlaender's of method in his art which promises much for the
Schweineherde (" Herd of Pigs")■: a modest subject, future. A. H.
treated in a most marvellous manner. This artist --
also sent three other works, i.e., Amor's Sieg, The greatest artist in Germany during the last
Flucht, and Im Loewenkaefig—all of which are century died on February 9th. His all-round powers
full of that humour for which Oberlaender is were a source of constant wonderment to the artists
celebrated as illustrator of a well-known comic of Europe ; he passed from one problem to another,
paper. Walter Leistikow, the landscape painter, from one kind of subject to another, without any
was represented by four exhibits, one of which, hesitation, and he was equally at home in almost
Summer, is here illustrated. every medium. A keen observer of human nature,
--■ an imaginative draughtsman, broad in his style, he
Max Slevoght, who takes the lead amongst the had an almost uncanny ability for adjusting elaborate
younger generation of " Secessionists," contributed details to his designs. He worked like a splendid
the portrait of Marietta di Regardo, a Creole music- engine, and drawings literally fell from his indus-
hall celebrity in the act of dancing. Am See, by trious fingers ; his life was a procession of labours,
Benno Becker (here illustrated), is in this painter's labour apparently gone through in the spirit of a
usual style, his speciality being landscape in Tus- game. In his untiring industry, in his immense
cany, with its mystic moonlight nights, mountain energy, he was allied to Bismarck, and, like Bismarck,
ridges and pine-tops bathed in silver, into the whole he realised to some extent German ideals. He had
of which he introduces a poetical touch. Robert all the tremendous thoroughness that is so essen-
Breyer showed the portrait of a lady; the face is not tially German. His art was intensely national.
" SUMMER "
172
BY WALTER LEISTIKOW
coloured lights, and numerous other details, all only seen en face, but also in profile through a
combine to give a faithful picture of actualities looking-glass. A snow scene by Oscar Moll, a rising
which is worthy of great praise. Another interest- young Berlin artist, showed sincerity and soundness
ing work was Professor Adolph Oberlaender's of method in his art which promises much for the
Schweineherde (" Herd of Pigs")■: a modest subject, future. A. H.
treated in a most marvellous manner. This artist --
also sent three other works, i.e., Amor's Sieg, The greatest artist in Germany during the last
Flucht, and Im Loewenkaefig—all of which are century died on February 9th. His all-round powers
full of that humour for which Oberlaender is were a source of constant wonderment to the artists
celebrated as illustrator of a well-known comic of Europe ; he passed from one problem to another,
paper. Walter Leistikow, the landscape painter, from one kind of subject to another, without any
was represented by four exhibits, one of which, hesitation, and he was equally at home in almost
Summer, is here illustrated. every medium. A keen observer of human nature,
--■ an imaginative draughtsman, broad in his style, he
Max Slevoght, who takes the lead amongst the had an almost uncanny ability for adjusting elaborate
younger generation of " Secessionists," contributed details to his designs. He worked like a splendid
the portrait of Marietta di Regardo, a Creole music- engine, and drawings literally fell from his indus-
hall celebrity in the act of dancing. Am See, by trious fingers ; his life was a procession of labours,
Benno Becker (here illustrated), is in this painter's labour apparently gone through in the spirit of a
usual style, his speciality being landscape in Tus- game. In his untiring industry, in his immense
cany, with its mystic moonlight nights, mountain energy, he was allied to Bismarck, and, like Bismarck,
ridges and pine-tops bathed in silver, into the whole he realised to some extent German ideals. He had
of which he introduces a poetical touch. Robert all the tremendous thoroughness that is so essen-
Breyer showed the portrait of a lady; the face is not tially German. His art was intensely national.
" SUMMER "
172
BY WALTER LEISTIKOW