DOI Heft:
No. 153 (December, 1905)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20713#0284
Studio- Talk
academic work. To a quite different species of
reconstruction belong the drawings of Stanislaw
Noakowski, of which some characteristic examples
are here reproduced. In these, the historic and
documentary note is happily combined with that
individuality of perception and genuine artistic
temperament, in virtue of which they appeal as
strongly to the artist as they do the historian.
During the last decade the art world of Russia
has evinced a very keen interest in its ancient
architecture, and fruitful results have ensued in
more than one direction. Quite a number of
painters have made repeated expeditions to
provincial towns and remote monasteries, as far
even as the extreme northern limits of the vast
empire of the Czars, in order to seek inspiration
and material for their pictures in the ancient
edifices to be found theie. Some more or less
successful perspectives and realistic studies em-
bodying architectonic motifs have been the princi-
pal outcome of these excursions, as for instance
in the case of Arkhipoff, Grabar, Baron Klodt,
Perepletchnikoff, Yuon, and others. Some, how-
ever, including A. Vasnetzoff and A. Roerich,
thoroughly imbued with the material gathered,
have pioduced from it some large and complex
decorative paintings.
In this way there have arisen reconstructed
pictures of towns in the olden time and historic
genre pictures, in which the architectonic background
often constitutes the most important feature.
Especially so of course is this the case with
Apollinarius Vasnetzoff, who as the result of
exhaustive researches among the ancient archives
has executed a whole series of oil paintings, water-
colours and sketches, calling up, as if by a magic
touch, the Moscow of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, with all her wondrous wealth of colour.
Pursuing the same objects as Vasnetzoff, though
with more modest means, Stanislaw Noakowski,
who is an architect, has limited himself strictly to
architectonic forms and has attempted nothing of
a genre character in his sketches. Although
preferring the period preceding Peter the Great as
that in which Russian architecture was most fertile
in beautiful productions, he does not take any
definite historic city as his model and pays but
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BY S. NOAKOWSKI
academic work. To a quite different species of
reconstruction belong the drawings of Stanislaw
Noakowski, of which some characteristic examples
are here reproduced. In these, the historic and
documentary note is happily combined with that
individuality of perception and genuine artistic
temperament, in virtue of which they appeal as
strongly to the artist as they do the historian.
During the last decade the art world of Russia
has evinced a very keen interest in its ancient
architecture, and fruitful results have ensued in
more than one direction. Quite a number of
painters have made repeated expeditions to
provincial towns and remote monasteries, as far
even as the extreme northern limits of the vast
empire of the Czars, in order to seek inspiration
and material for their pictures in the ancient
edifices to be found theie. Some more or less
successful perspectives and realistic studies em-
bodying architectonic motifs have been the princi-
pal outcome of these excursions, as for instance
in the case of Arkhipoff, Grabar, Baron Klodt,
Perepletchnikoff, Yuon, and others. Some, how-
ever, including A. Vasnetzoff and A. Roerich,
thoroughly imbued with the material gathered,
have pioduced from it some large and complex
decorative paintings.
In this way there have arisen reconstructed
pictures of towns in the olden time and historic
genre pictures, in which the architectonic background
often constitutes the most important feature.
Especially so of course is this the case with
Apollinarius Vasnetzoff, who as the result of
exhaustive researches among the ancient archives
has executed a whole series of oil paintings, water-
colours and sketches, calling up, as if by a magic
touch, the Moscow of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, with all her wondrous wealth of colour.
Pursuing the same objects as Vasnetzoff, though
with more modest means, Stanislaw Noakowski,
who is an architect, has limited himself strictly to
architectonic forms and has attempted nothing of
a genre character in his sketches. Although
preferring the period preceding Peter the Great as
that in which Russian architecture was most fertile
in beautiful productions, he does not take any
definite historic city as his model and pays but
SKETCH
266
BY S. NOAKOWSKI