DOI Heft:
No. 152 (November, 1905)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20713#0198
Studio- Talk
and weapons of honour in the name of
his City. Here, though the feeling is
essentially modern, the artist has given
the figures a stamp of antique dignity and
beauty. The artist stands on the threshold
of mastership, gifted with great technical
skill and an ardent temperament, a com-
bination from which we may certainly hope
for great things. M. R.
RANKFURT.—The four medals
reproduced on page 178
were modelled by Professor
Rudolph Mayer for the Hof-
Kunst-Prageanstalt at Pforzheim. The
Schiller Medal was considered the best of
those struck on the occasion of the recent
centenary festival in honour of the poet.
The Gesellschaft fur asthetische Kultur
at Frankfurt recently started a new depar-
ture in advertising by holding an artistic
poster exhibition in one of the leading
thoroughfares of this city, a wall being
placed at their disposal by the city autho-
rities. Our illustration is from a photo-
WOOD-NYMPH BY G. A. HEGGELUND
l8o
“THE LADY FROM THE SEA” BY G. A. HEGGELUND
graph of the hoarding. The example set by the society
is one which might with advantage be followed in all
large towns.
VENICE.—We reproduce a painting by Signor
Ettore de Maria-Bergler, exhibited at the Venice
Exhibition. We understand that it has been
acquired by Signor Tittoni, the Italian Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and presented by him to the Inter-
national Art Gallery at Venice.
CHRISTIANIA. — Georg Andreas Heggelund,
of whose plastic art we reproduce three
examples, was born at Loedingen, Nordland,
Norway, in i860. His father was a farmer
and fishbuyer, and when seventeen years old Georg joined
a fishing-crew going to Eofoten. He continued in the
rough and hardy life of a fisherman for three years, but
all this time he kept thinking how he could get a chance
to study art, having very early evinced an unmistakable
talent in this direction. At last, aided by the influence of
the rector of his parish, he got a fellowship at the indus-
trial school of Drammen, where he made wood-carving a
and weapons of honour in the name of
his City. Here, though the feeling is
essentially modern, the artist has given
the figures a stamp of antique dignity and
beauty. The artist stands on the threshold
of mastership, gifted with great technical
skill and an ardent temperament, a com-
bination from which we may certainly hope
for great things. M. R.
RANKFURT.—The four medals
reproduced on page 178
were modelled by Professor
Rudolph Mayer for the Hof-
Kunst-Prageanstalt at Pforzheim. The
Schiller Medal was considered the best of
those struck on the occasion of the recent
centenary festival in honour of the poet.
The Gesellschaft fur asthetische Kultur
at Frankfurt recently started a new depar-
ture in advertising by holding an artistic
poster exhibition in one of the leading
thoroughfares of this city, a wall being
placed at their disposal by the city autho-
rities. Our illustration is from a photo-
WOOD-NYMPH BY G. A. HEGGELUND
l8o
“THE LADY FROM THE SEA” BY G. A. HEGGELUND
graph of the hoarding. The example set by the society
is one which might with advantage be followed in all
large towns.
VENICE.—We reproduce a painting by Signor
Ettore de Maria-Bergler, exhibited at the Venice
Exhibition. We understand that it has been
acquired by Signor Tittoni, the Italian Minister
of Foreign Affairs, and presented by him to the Inter-
national Art Gallery at Venice.
CHRISTIANIA. — Georg Andreas Heggelund,
of whose plastic art we reproduce three
examples, was born at Loedingen, Nordland,
Norway, in i860. His father was a farmer
and fishbuyer, and when seventeen years old Georg joined
a fishing-crew going to Eofoten. He continued in the
rough and hardy life of a fisherman for three years, but
all this time he kept thinking how he could get a chance
to study art, having very early evinced an unmistakable
talent in this direction. At last, aided by the influence of
the rector of his parish, he got a fellowship at the indus-
trial school of Drammen, where he made wood-carving a