DOI Artikel:
Holland, Clive: Pictorial Photography in Belgium
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.27086#0172
BELGIUM
examples in most of the Belgian Exhibitions of recent years. The
picture, “ Street in Chambery,” selected for reproduction, forms a
good example of his methods in that particular genre.
In M. M. Vanderkindere Belgium possesses a pictorial worker of
high rank, both as regards technique and artistic taste. In his
pictures, which are chiefly landscapes, one finds much of the same
qualities which distinguish those of Mr. Horsley Hinton and other
English pictorialists of the same school. There is a similar
effective grouping of materials not too promising in themselves, the
same skilful lighting, and the same sentiment and poetic feeling.
Several works we remember bear evident traces of the “ English
School of Landscape Photography,” which is frankly admitted by
many leading Belgian workers to “ embrace a fine sense of the
beautiful in nature, restrained within truly pictorial limits by a
skilful use of both material and a sure handling of tone values.” In
both the examples of M. Vanderkindere’s work which have been
reproduced herein the qualities to which we have drawn attention
are present in a satisfying degree, although reproductions, however
carefully made, cannot always do full justice to pictures which rely
so much for their charm upon the nuance of the original.
M. R. Ickx has done a very considerable amount of good landscape
work ; his “ Rainy Day in the Campine,” chosen for reproduction,
is representative of his more recent work, and possesses qualities
which have given him his position amongst the present-day workers
in Belgium.
The portraits and figure studies of M. G. Oury are usually distin-
guished by much happiness of composition and great technical
skill. “The New Song” exhibits much of the painter-like scheme
of arrangement which is a marked feature of M. Oury’s work.
In M. G. Marissiaux Belgium possesses a worker who shows
distinct taste for a pictorial rendering of homely scenes which
seldom lack sentiment and charm. The example chosen for repro-
duction forms a good one both of his genre, and of his method of
rendering simple materials pictorial.
The advance of artistic photography in Belgium during the last two
or three years has been more marked than in a corresponding period
in former years, and there is every hope that in the near future that
country will take high rank amongst those in which the pictorial
in photography is held in repute.
CLIVE HOLLAND.
examples in most of the Belgian Exhibitions of recent years. The
picture, “ Street in Chambery,” selected for reproduction, forms a
good example of his methods in that particular genre.
In M. M. Vanderkindere Belgium possesses a pictorial worker of
high rank, both as regards technique and artistic taste. In his
pictures, which are chiefly landscapes, one finds much of the same
qualities which distinguish those of Mr. Horsley Hinton and other
English pictorialists of the same school. There is a similar
effective grouping of materials not too promising in themselves, the
same skilful lighting, and the same sentiment and poetic feeling.
Several works we remember bear evident traces of the “ English
School of Landscape Photography,” which is frankly admitted by
many leading Belgian workers to “ embrace a fine sense of the
beautiful in nature, restrained within truly pictorial limits by a
skilful use of both material and a sure handling of tone values.” In
both the examples of M. Vanderkindere’s work which have been
reproduced herein the qualities to which we have drawn attention
are present in a satisfying degree, although reproductions, however
carefully made, cannot always do full justice to pictures which rely
so much for their charm upon the nuance of the original.
M. R. Ickx has done a very considerable amount of good landscape
work ; his “ Rainy Day in the Campine,” chosen for reproduction,
is representative of his more recent work, and possesses qualities
which have given him his position amongst the present-day workers
in Belgium.
The portraits and figure studies of M. G. Oury are usually distin-
guished by much happiness of composition and great technical
skill. “The New Song” exhibits much of the painter-like scheme
of arrangement which is a marked feature of M. Oury’s work.
In M. G. Marissiaux Belgium possesses a worker who shows
distinct taste for a pictorial rendering of homely scenes which
seldom lack sentiment and charm. The example chosen for repro-
duction forms a good one both of his genre, and of his method of
rendering simple materials pictorial.
The advance of artistic photography in Belgium during the last two
or three years has been more marked than in a corresponding period
in former years, and there is every hope that in the near future that
country will take high rank amongst those in which the pictorial
in photography is held in repute.
CLIVE HOLLAND.