DOI issue:
No. 155 (February, 1906)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0094
Studio- Talk
deems it possible to suggest music by precise and considerable attention by the painter's peculiar
frequently awkward forms. His fountain for the choice of subjects. Kronberg is an ardent admirer
Buffalo Exposition — a most elaborate piece of of the ballet and the stage, and there is a flavour
sculpture—was in need of a commentary; the of the footlights about all his work, even about
pleasure-seeking public passed it by without com- his portraits, as they invariably represent actors
prehending its symbolical lesson. While we doubt like Richard Mansfield in various make-ups.
if this kind of symbolism is the true vocation of -
sculpture, we cannot help admiring the sculptor's Some critics have called him the American
abundant and multiform talent. It has many modes Degas. But there is only the similarity of subject,
and moods ; it is idyllic, lyric, and melodramatic in the treatment is quite a different one. The Boston
turn. The artist has explored every line of glyptic painter has neither the dash nor the looseness of
expression. Grafty knows that he has something Degas' method ; he does not suggest, but actually
special to say, and that he must find for himself a represents a scene,
special and unique form of utterance. He is -
decidedly a man of his generation, an intimate Kronberg is attracted by the riotous colour effects
part of the intellectual life of to-day. S. H. which the stage affords, and he reproduces their
manifold shades and distinctions of hue with con-
BOSTON.—In a recent exhibition of the summate skill. Owing to his use of colour as
" Odd Brushes " (a temporary partner- material instead of as an end, and to the directness
ship of five young artists with all sorts with which he paints what there is visible to his
of ambitious schemes for the future) eye and suggested to his mind, his ballet scenes,
Louis Kronberg showed not less than some fifty however, depend for their interest not on the stage
canvases, sketches and pastels. They attracted and its hackneyed romantic attractiveness, but on
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deems it possible to suggest music by precise and considerable attention by the painter's peculiar
frequently awkward forms. His fountain for the choice of subjects. Kronberg is an ardent admirer
Buffalo Exposition — a most elaborate piece of of the ballet and the stage, and there is a flavour
sculpture—was in need of a commentary; the of the footlights about all his work, even about
pleasure-seeking public passed it by without com- his portraits, as they invariably represent actors
prehending its symbolical lesson. While we doubt like Richard Mansfield in various make-ups.
if this kind of symbolism is the true vocation of -
sculpture, we cannot help admiring the sculptor's Some critics have called him the American
abundant and multiform talent. It has many modes Degas. But there is only the similarity of subject,
and moods ; it is idyllic, lyric, and melodramatic in the treatment is quite a different one. The Boston
turn. The artist has explored every line of glyptic painter has neither the dash nor the looseness of
expression. Grafty knows that he has something Degas' method ; he does not suggest, but actually
special to say, and that he must find for himself a represents a scene,
special and unique form of utterance. He is -
decidedly a man of his generation, an intimate Kronberg is attracted by the riotous colour effects
part of the intellectual life of to-day. S. H. which the stage affords, and he reproduces their
manifold shades and distinctions of hue with con-
BOSTON.—In a recent exhibition of the summate skill. Owing to his use of colour as
" Odd Brushes " (a temporary partner- material instead of as an end, and to the directness
ship of five young artists with all sorts with which he paints what there is visible to his
of ambitious schemes for the future) eye and suggested to his mind, his ballet scenes,
Louis Kronberg showed not less than some fifty however, depend for their interest not on the stage
canvases, sketches and pastels. They attracted and its hackneyed romantic attractiveness, but on
INTERIOR, IIAGENBUND EXHIBITION, VIENNA DESIGNED BY JOSEPH URBAN
EXECUTED BY SANDOR JARAY
74