Studio: international art (35.1905)

The Craft Schools of Austria

CARVED FLORAL DESIGN BY V. WESTREICHER

(BOZEN SCHOOL)

examine—that is, to “learn by heart’’—and then,
after due digesting, to explain the result on paper.
In other schools it may be a flower, a leaf; every-
thing depends on the nature of the particular leaf.
Brush - drawing, however, is a feature of each.
Once a month at all schools the boys have, as
home tasks, to prepare an original design, the sub-

ject being given to them ; and, according to the
stage of advancement which the pupil has reached,
in the second or third year, this may be in one
school a barber’s shop, a kitchen, a simple dining-
room or bedroom, perhaps even the dining-room
for a restaurant; in others a vase, bowl, brooch,
figure, glass, clock, as the case may be. And once
a year at all schools they have Klausur work—
that is a practical examination ; the drawings,
designs, and models being sent to Vienna for
examination. Last year these were exhibited at the
Austrian Museum.

In the schools for woodwork the first year is
devoted to construction, and the second and third
to furniture making. Drawing and designing are
taught the whole time.

It is more difficult to instruct the evening classes.
All apprentices must attend an industrial school,
each according to his particular trade, and this
throughout the whole of apprenticeship. When
the evening instruction begins the scholars are
already fatigued from the exertions of the day ; and
though they work earnestly, the results are naturally
not so good as in the day schools.

At Teplitz there is an excellent school for pottery
making, whose fame has reached far-off Japan ; for
Kosuke Hirano, who is now professor of this art

WRITING CABINET

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DESIGNED BY J. ZABOKRTSKY (CHRUDIM SCHOOL)