DOI Heft:
No. 161 (August, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: Modern Viennese toys
DOI Artikel:Bröchner, Georg: Some nothern painters and their homes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20715#0240
Northern Painters and their Homes
the saleswomen and doing a good business, spite of
the fact that the toys are necessarily high-priced.
Last year, again, some enterprising young artists
had a stall in the children’s Christmas market, but
were not so successful here amidst the crowd of
other stall-keepers; the toys, though cheap, were
not cheap enough to enable them to compete with
others. Frau Zakucka-Harlfinger sold about four
hundred dolls in one year. All these lady designers
are enthusiastic as to the future prospect of toy-
making, if they could be employed to make the
models and as teachers; the only thing wanting is
commercial support.
Ferdinand Andri’s figures are types, not of towns,
but of villages in Moravia, in Bohemia and in
Croatia. There is some peculiar charm in them
which makes them a joy to children. Herr Andri
makes them entirely himself, and, like the others,
derives real pleasure from “ creating ” these figures.
For work of this sort one must be fond of children,
be able to understand things from a child’s point
of view, have an enormous power of taking pains,
and be prepared to spend much time for little
gain—that is, as long as the present state of things
exists. It is indeed alike interesting and significant
to find men like Professor Moser, Herr Andri, and
others, who have achieved an international reputa-
tion in the fine and decorative arts, bringing their
talent to bear on such objects as playthings for
children. But it is hardly to be expected that they
can, in the future, devote any considerable part of
their precious time to this branch of applied art;
it must suffice that they have shown the way. It
seems to me, however, that by employing women-
designers possessing the necessary qualities, much
good could be achieved and the field of toy-making
greatly enlarged. A. S. Levetus.
SOME NORTHERN PAINTERS
AND THEIR HOMES. BY GEORG
BROCHNER.
It is not easy to define accurately that indis-
putable charm which surrounds the homes of
PRINCE EUGEN'S STUDIO IN THE ROYAL TALACE, STOCKHOLM
the saleswomen and doing a good business, spite of
the fact that the toys are necessarily high-priced.
Last year, again, some enterprising young artists
had a stall in the children’s Christmas market, but
were not so successful here amidst the crowd of
other stall-keepers; the toys, though cheap, were
not cheap enough to enable them to compete with
others. Frau Zakucka-Harlfinger sold about four
hundred dolls in one year. All these lady designers
are enthusiastic as to the future prospect of toy-
making, if they could be employed to make the
models and as teachers; the only thing wanting is
commercial support.
Ferdinand Andri’s figures are types, not of towns,
but of villages in Moravia, in Bohemia and in
Croatia. There is some peculiar charm in them
which makes them a joy to children. Herr Andri
makes them entirely himself, and, like the others,
derives real pleasure from “ creating ” these figures.
For work of this sort one must be fond of children,
be able to understand things from a child’s point
of view, have an enormous power of taking pains,
and be prepared to spend much time for little
gain—that is, as long as the present state of things
exists. It is indeed alike interesting and significant
to find men like Professor Moser, Herr Andri, and
others, who have achieved an international reputa-
tion in the fine and decorative arts, bringing their
talent to bear on such objects as playthings for
children. But it is hardly to be expected that they
can, in the future, devote any considerable part of
their precious time to this branch of applied art;
it must suffice that they have shown the way. It
seems to me, however, that by employing women-
designers possessing the necessary qualities, much
good could be achieved and the field of toy-making
greatly enlarged. A. S. Levetus.
SOME NORTHERN PAINTERS
AND THEIR HOMES. BY GEORG
BROCHNER.
It is not easy to define accurately that indis-
putable charm which surrounds the homes of
PRINCE EUGEN'S STUDIO IN THE ROYAL TALACE, STOCKHOLM