Studio: international art (37.1906)

Studio- Talk

and thus it happened that
the painted fans were less
successful than those in
which other kindsofdecora-
tion had been employed.
The most excellent piece of
impressionistic decoration
is of no value here, since
the fan is an article which
is always held in close proxi-
mity to the user, and in
which therefore all its details
come in for close scrutiny.

fan designed by fleischer-wiemans

The first place among
the good designs belongs
to the textile fans, and

adjoining, I will refer only to the modern fans. especially to those in which lace is the chief

-• decorative feature. The greatest success was

The aim attained by

hibition, ' I whose de-

which it is '■■^^^ i signs were

to be hoped J reproduced

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ised, was to Wr . • _ '~ \. r\\ '1B| | number of

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productive Bj Bj?!3fl were exe-

now. cuted by the

In the pre- fan designed by s. m. b. kuhn "Verein zur

face to the Hebung der

catalogue the committee frankly acknowledge that Spitzenindustrie in Oesterreich," and excel in those
talent in this direction is not plentiful. A good qualities which are before all indispensable for the
many promising designs
were shown, but really first-
rate ones were very rare.
The reproductions shown
here have been selected
from the best ones, a col-
lection that could not be
increased to any consider-
able extent.

Unlike the designers of
old, many of the exhibitors at
this exhibition seem to have
ignored the character of the
fan as a miniature picture; fan designed by_frau hrdlicka

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