DOI issue:
Nr. 168 (March 1907)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20774#0178
Studio-Talk
WOOD-CARVING : MARABOU AND MONKEY
BY FRANZ BARWIG
Imperial family and high dignitaries of the Court
and State.
Walter Klemm, though quite a young man,
has been very successful with his coloured wood-
engravings. Many of the
chief continental private
collectors have bought his
prints, as also have the
directors of the Imperial
Library and Albertina,
Vienna, and the Munich,
Dresden and other galleries,
for their collections. Klemm
is only twenty-four. He
stud ied at the Ivunstgewerbe-
schule, Vienna, under
Professors Kenner, Moser
and Myrbach. Having com-
pleted his studies under
these most capable teachers,
Klemm in company with
Carl Thiermann, another
young wood engraver of
kindred leanings, settled
down in the delightful vil-
lage of Libotz, near Prague,
which is the centre of a
H6
Franz Barwig, of whose carvings we give illus-
trations, is a native of Moravia. Though wood
offers wide scope for the craftsman’s talent, yet
it is strange that so few have perceived the
possibilities held out to them. Barwig stands
in the foremost rank of wood-carvers, or, as I
should prefer to say, wood-sculptors. He was
born with an inherited love for this kind of
work ; before ever he had a single lesson about
it, he cherished a longing to be a wood-sculptor.
He was apprenticed to a maker of wooden
crosses and figures of saints in a little village in
Moravia, who had no idea of anything but
Gothic, and when he finished his term he made
his way to Vienna, and became a student at the
Imperial Arts and Crafts School. Both during his
student-days and afterwards he used to study at the
Zoological Gardens in Schonbrunn, where he spent
many happy hours following the animals in their
“ON THE AVEN, BRITTANY ” (COLOURED DRAWING)
BY R. KONOPA
number of picturesque villages. Klemm seems
to have a preference for animals, while Herr
Thiermann prefers the scenery of town and
village. A series of coloured woodcuts depicting
old Prague are fine examples of the latter’s work,
and he, too, has met with recognition from col-
lectors, public and private. Both have begun
well, and as both are filled with the true senti-
ment for art, and have learnt in the school of
life as well as in the art schools, there is a good
future for them.
WOOD-CARVING : MARABOU AND MONKEY
BY FRANZ BARWIG
Imperial family and high dignitaries of the Court
and State.
Walter Klemm, though quite a young man,
has been very successful with his coloured wood-
engravings. Many of the
chief continental private
collectors have bought his
prints, as also have the
directors of the Imperial
Library and Albertina,
Vienna, and the Munich,
Dresden and other galleries,
for their collections. Klemm
is only twenty-four. He
stud ied at the Ivunstgewerbe-
schule, Vienna, under
Professors Kenner, Moser
and Myrbach. Having com-
pleted his studies under
these most capable teachers,
Klemm in company with
Carl Thiermann, another
young wood engraver of
kindred leanings, settled
down in the delightful vil-
lage of Libotz, near Prague,
which is the centre of a
H6
Franz Barwig, of whose carvings we give illus-
trations, is a native of Moravia. Though wood
offers wide scope for the craftsman’s talent, yet
it is strange that so few have perceived the
possibilities held out to them. Barwig stands
in the foremost rank of wood-carvers, or, as I
should prefer to say, wood-sculptors. He was
born with an inherited love for this kind of
work ; before ever he had a single lesson about
it, he cherished a longing to be a wood-sculptor.
He was apprenticed to a maker of wooden
crosses and figures of saints in a little village in
Moravia, who had no idea of anything but
Gothic, and when he finished his term he made
his way to Vienna, and became a student at the
Imperial Arts and Crafts School. Both during his
student-days and afterwards he used to study at the
Zoological Gardens in Schonbrunn, where he spent
many happy hours following the animals in their
“ON THE AVEN, BRITTANY ” (COLOURED DRAWING)
BY R. KONOPA
number of picturesque villages. Klemm seems
to have a preference for animals, while Herr
Thiermann prefers the scenery of town and
village. A series of coloured woodcuts depicting
old Prague are fine examples of the latter’s work,
and he, too, has met with recognition from col-
lectors, public and private. Both have begun
well, and as both are filled with the true senti-
ment for art, and have learnt in the school of
life as well as in the art schools, there is a good
future for them.