Studio: international art (36.1906)

Studio-Talk

CUSHIONS EXECUTED BY FROKEN KEINONEN

wooden dwellings between which passes the un-
paved roadway.

After what has been said it will be a surprise to
most people to be told that the author of theie

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typically Russian sketches is not himself a
Russian. Stanislaw Noakowski is a Pole, and his
childhood and schooldays were passed at his native
place on the Vistula. He received his training
as an architect at the Imperial Academy of Arts
St. Petersburg, and at the present time holds the
position of Professor at the Stroganoff School of
Applied Art in Moscow. P. E.

HELSINGFORS.—Everyyear the students
of the Central Skolan for Konsflit
(Central School of Industrial Art) hold
an exhibition of the work they have
executed during the preceding session, and the
exhibition is one which always attracts a large
attendance on the part of the public, not only from
the city itself but also from the country. It has
indeed become an event of as much importance as
the annual picture exhibitions. One can hardly
imagine a more interesting exhibition of the kind,
for even granting that the pupils have been assisted
to some extent by the teachers of the different
departments in the completion of their work, the
results are none the less surprising, and one is often
prompted to ask whether the work on view is not
done by trained artists instead of by pupils under-
going training. Many of the motifs selected by the
pupils are derived from the legendary lore of
Finland, but the chief source of inspiration is the
native flora and fauna.

The school was founded some twenty-five years
ago. The first director, Ernst Nordstrom, a most
capable teacher, started a course of wood-carving
and artistic cabinet-making, the charge of which
was entrusted to Herr Friedl, of Vienna; in addition
to which instruction was given in leather work by