Studio: international art (38.1906)

Austrian Peasant Ornaments

FIG. I. SILVER FILIGREE HAIRPIN, SALZBURG
FIGS.2 & 3. BONE HAIRPINS WITH ENGRAVED
AND COLOURED ORNAMENTATION,— FROM
SOUTH TYROL

(Property of the Mtiseum fur Volltskunde,
Vienna, the Hand tend Gewerbe Museum,
Innsbruck, and Herr K. Wohlgemuth, Bozen)

able defects. The artist, on the other
hand, cannot endure such conventional
figures,' while he delights in a variety
of positions —standing, lying, eating or
drinking, singly or in groups; and any
amount of foreshortening is welcomed.

He likes to study a subject taken from above, but
preferably from below, so that the animal may
appear on a higher level or on a height. He
does not mind if it is half concealed, provided
the veil is natural and appropriate. Thus a
picture of swans rather gains in attractiveness
where the figures are partly hidden by sedges or
bulrushes. The same applies to cattle among
rushes, bracken, or trees, or standing up to the belly
in a shady pool.” C. L. N.

DALMATIAN
FILIGREE HAIR
ORNAMENT IN
SILVER AND SIL-
VER-GILT, SET
WITH STONES
(Museum fiir Volks-
kunde, Vienna)

FIGS. 5, 6 & 7. BONE HAIRPINS WITH
ENGRAVED AND COLOURED ORNAMENTA-
TION—FROM SOUTH TYROL
(Property of Hand-und- Gewerbe Museum,
Innsbruck, and Herr K. Wohlgemuth, Bozen)

T

HE PERSONAL OR-
NAMENTS OF THE
AUSTRIAN PEASANT.
BY A. S. LEVETUS.

Austria and her Crown Lands
offer rich and varied fields to be
explored by those interested in art.
She possesses precious stores of various works
of peasant art, not only in the numerous local
museums scattered throughout the provinces, but
also in private collections and in the families of the
well-to-do peasants who have not been obliged to
part with their treasures to provide for some of
their wants. And of these fields none is richer
than that of ornaments. These vary according to
province and according to the class of society.
Some owe their existence to the practised gold and

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