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Nr. 145 (April 1905)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Arthur Rackham: a painter of fantasies
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20711#0208
Arthur Rackham
the " Graphic," the " Sketch," " Black and White," feel disposed to question the correctness of .this
and other weeklies of the same order, and opinion. He has given to the shows some very
with more imaginative work for books and maga- novel features, and he has taken in the Society an
zines. He illustrated the " Ingoldsby Legends," absolutely unique position ; there is certainly no
" Grimm's Fairy Tales," and a number of his draw- one else among the supporters of this catholic and
ings were published in the children's magazine, energetic association who approaches him in that
" Little Folks." . All kinds of subjects engaged form of pictorial expression which he has made
him, fairy tales and fantasies, realistic modern life, so emphatically his own, and there are few who
dramatic motives drawn from fiction, and others can be said to rival him in thoroughness and
which offered him scope for invention and imagina- completeness of craftsmanship,
tive expression; and the variety, it may well be Indeed, there is no harm in repeating what has
assumed, was helpful in the development of his art already been stated, that neither among present-
and in the widening of his professional outlook. day artists nor among those who have passed away
Meanwhile he was steadily advancing in his is there anyone who is quite comparable with him.
command over the practical details of his art. Perhaps the nearest to him was Richard Doyle, but
He was becoming a
draughtsman of re-
markable power and an
eminently accomplished
water-colourist, a painter,
indeed, with much more
than ordinary skill. So
satisfactory was his de-
velopment that in 1902
he was able to secure
admission to the Royal
Society of Painters in
Water - Colours on the
first occasion that he
offered himself. This
prompt recognition of his
claims deserves to be
recorded, because it is
no uncommon thing for
artists of distinction to
have to make a succession
of attempts to satisfy the
Society of their fitness for
election. That the doors
should have been opened
to him at once is evi-
dence enough that he was
regarded then as a spe-
cially desirable Associate,
and that the members
thought his contributions
likely to increase appre-
ciably the attractiveness
and interest of the Soci-
ety's exhibitions. No one
who has seen the draw-
ings by which he has since
■ • « "the young count and the frogs " : by arthur rackham
been represented in the illustration for grimm's fairy tales
gallery in Pall Mall would (By permission of Messrs. Archibald Constable &> Co.)
192
the " Graphic," the " Sketch," " Black and White," feel disposed to question the correctness of .this
and other weeklies of the same order, and opinion. He has given to the shows some very
with more imaginative work for books and maga- novel features, and he has taken in the Society an
zines. He illustrated the " Ingoldsby Legends," absolutely unique position ; there is certainly no
" Grimm's Fairy Tales," and a number of his draw- one else among the supporters of this catholic and
ings were published in the children's magazine, energetic association who approaches him in that
" Little Folks." . All kinds of subjects engaged form of pictorial expression which he has made
him, fairy tales and fantasies, realistic modern life, so emphatically his own, and there are few who
dramatic motives drawn from fiction, and others can be said to rival him in thoroughness and
which offered him scope for invention and imagina- completeness of craftsmanship,
tive expression; and the variety, it may well be Indeed, there is no harm in repeating what has
assumed, was helpful in the development of his art already been stated, that neither among present-
and in the widening of his professional outlook. day artists nor among those who have passed away
Meanwhile he was steadily advancing in his is there anyone who is quite comparable with him.
command over the practical details of his art. Perhaps the nearest to him was Richard Doyle, but
He was becoming a
draughtsman of re-
markable power and an
eminently accomplished
water-colourist, a painter,
indeed, with much more
than ordinary skill. So
satisfactory was his de-
velopment that in 1902
he was able to secure
admission to the Royal
Society of Painters in
Water - Colours on the
first occasion that he
offered himself. This
prompt recognition of his
claims deserves to be
recorded, because it is
no uncommon thing for
artists of distinction to
have to make a succession
of attempts to satisfy the
Society of their fitness for
election. That the doors
should have been opened
to him at once is evi-
dence enough that he was
regarded then as a spe-
cially desirable Associate,
and that the members
thought his contributions
likely to increase appre-
ciably the attractiveness
and interest of the Soci-
ety's exhibitions. No one
who has seen the draw-
ings by which he has since
■ • « "the young count and the frogs " : by arthur rackham
been represented in the illustration for grimm's fairy tales
gallery in Pall Mall would (By permission of Messrs. Archibald Constable &> Co.)
192