DOI issue:
No. 166 (January, 1907)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0381
Studio- Talk
meunier exhibition, vienna arranged by josef urban
great, indeed, was the interest aroused that the 1* If ELBOURNE.— The recent Annual
hours were extended. The organisers o the ex- / % / 1 Winter Exhibition of the Victorian
hibition have every reason to be satisfied with the / w 1 Artists' Society was a very creditable
success of its visit o Vienna. A. S. L. AIM. display, and though there were but
few works which stood out prominently from the
BUDAPESTH.— Inasmuch as Mr. Elek rest, the general average showed a distinct advance
Falus, some of whose designs for book in quality as in quantity. There is a cry being
decoration are here reproduced, has for raised that Australia should have a National School
some little time past been
living and working in London, where he
has made up his mind to settle, we
ought, perhaps, to speak of him as a
Londoner. He is, however, a native of
the Hungarian capital, and those who are
conversant with Hungarian art will not fail
to discern in the examples we give some of
the characteristics of that art. Mr. Falus
is still quite a young man, and his marked
originality has not been hampered by
academic influences, for he is entirely self-
taught. He makes a speciality of book
decoration; but his achievements have
not been confined to this kind of work,
embroidery and tapestry-weaving having
occupied some of his time. He has a true
feeling for decoration, and is a conscien-
tious and painstaking worker. S. book decoration by elek falus
36i
meunier exhibition, vienna arranged by josef urban
great, indeed, was the interest aroused that the 1* If ELBOURNE.— The recent Annual
hours were extended. The organisers o the ex- / % / 1 Winter Exhibition of the Victorian
hibition have every reason to be satisfied with the / w 1 Artists' Society was a very creditable
success of its visit o Vienna. A. S. L. AIM. display, and though there were but
few works which stood out prominently from the
BUDAPESTH.— Inasmuch as Mr. Elek rest, the general average showed a distinct advance
Falus, some of whose designs for book in quality as in quantity. There is a cry being
decoration are here reproduced, has for raised that Australia should have a National School
some little time past been
living and working in London, where he
has made up his mind to settle, we
ought, perhaps, to speak of him as a
Londoner. He is, however, a native of
the Hungarian capital, and those who are
conversant with Hungarian art will not fail
to discern in the examples we give some of
the characteristics of that art. Mr. Falus
is still quite a young man, and his marked
originality has not been hampered by
academic influences, for he is entirely self-
taught. He makes a speciality of book
decoration; but his achievements have
not been confined to this kind of work,
embroidery and tapestry-weaving having
occupied some of his time. He has a true
feeling for decoration, and is a conscien-
tious and painstaking worker. S. book decoration by elek falus
36i