DOI Heft:
No. 163 (October, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Frantz, Henri: Some recent etchings by Albert Baertsoen
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0060
Recent Etchings by Albert Baertsoen
the canals. At a time when really too many artists Besides painting excellent canvases like those
are abusing the use of half-tints and chiaroscuro which were exhibited at the Societe Nationale this
one hastens to greet a frank colourist such as year, Albert Baertsoen has devoted himself with
Baertsoen, who is not afraid to spread out and ardour to the delightful art of etching, which, by
display in fullest flow the loveliest tones of his the way, he practised in his earlier days. A set
palette. of recent plates by him was exhibited a few months
Baertsoen's painting formed the subject, four or since in the Salons de TArt Decoratif, in the Rue
five years ago, of a detailed study in The Studio. Laffitte, Paris, and the artist has given me permission
Its readers were then enabled to follow the course to select certain of his chief works for The Studio.
of the artist's work through his favourite landscapes These hardy etchings, with their bold contrasts of
of Flanders and in Zeeland, with all its delightful light and shade, and their forcible grifonnages,
motifs. So there is no need to repeat what was so closely recall the pictorial works of Baertsoen.
admirably said in these very pages ; moreover the They have the same qualities of feeling and poetry,
artist has produced but few works of recent years, the same taste for the picturesque as these, and
In truth, he is not a man to force his productive- they are in every way worthy of the talented
ness; he is not to be counted among those who artist who in many an unforgettable work has
think it necessary to paint their Salon picture sung the beauty and the melancholy of the
every year. Baertsoen's view of art is assuredly dead cities of Flanders.
higher and nobler than that. Henri Frantz.
"MAISONS DES PAUVRES
40
FROM THE ORIGINAL ETCHING BY ALBERT BAERTSOEN
the canals. At a time when really too many artists Besides painting excellent canvases like those
are abusing the use of half-tints and chiaroscuro which were exhibited at the Societe Nationale this
one hastens to greet a frank colourist such as year, Albert Baertsoen has devoted himself with
Baertsoen, who is not afraid to spread out and ardour to the delightful art of etching, which, by
display in fullest flow the loveliest tones of his the way, he practised in his earlier days. A set
palette. of recent plates by him was exhibited a few months
Baertsoen's painting formed the subject, four or since in the Salons de TArt Decoratif, in the Rue
five years ago, of a detailed study in The Studio. Laffitte, Paris, and the artist has given me permission
Its readers were then enabled to follow the course to select certain of his chief works for The Studio.
of the artist's work through his favourite landscapes These hardy etchings, with their bold contrasts of
of Flanders and in Zeeland, with all its delightful light and shade, and their forcible grifonnages,
motifs. So there is no need to repeat what was so closely recall the pictorial works of Baertsoen.
admirably said in these very pages ; moreover the They have the same qualities of feeling and poetry,
artist has produced but few works of recent years, the same taste for the picturesque as these, and
In truth, he is not a man to force his productive- they are in every way worthy of the talented
ness; he is not to be counted among those who artist who in many an unforgettable work has
think it necessary to paint their Salon picture sung the beauty and the melancholy of the
every year. Baertsoen's view of art is assuredly dead cities of Flanders.
higher and nobler than that. Henri Frantz.
"MAISONS DES PAUVRES
40
FROM THE ORIGINAL ETCHING BY ALBERT BAERTSOEN