DOI Heft:
No. 171 (June, 1907)
DOI Artikel:The coloured stencil drawings of Ludwig Jungnickel
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0044
L. Jungnickel's Coloured Stencil Drawings
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in certain directions. Be that as it
may, there have gone forth from
these schools, and are still? going
forth, a generation of young men
and women who are filled with a
genuine feeling for art and by their
subsequent achievements have added
greatly to the prestige of the schools.
One such is Ludwig Jungnickel, a
young artist whose undoubted origi-
nality has manifested itself especially
in stencil compositions of diverse
kinds, and his work in this direction
is so far out of the common as to
justify notice here.
Jungnickel, who is a native of
Munich, was attracted to Vienna by
the fame of the Kunstgewerbeschulen
and the reputation which Prof. Roller
especially had acquired as a teacher.
At Munich he studied drawing at the
evening classes held at the Gewerbe-
„„ „ schule (Artizans' School), contrary
COLOURED STENCIL DRAWING BY LUDWIG JUNGNICKEL v " , '
to the wishes of his relatives and
friends, but being bent on becoming
the course of it reference was made to the progress an artist by profession he joined the School of Arts
accomplished in the graphic and decorative arts and Crafts there. He soon gave this up, however,
under the new regime initiated by Baron Myrbach. and, notwithstanding financial and other obstacles,
To him and his able coadjutor, Prof. Roller, made his way to Rome, where he got a living by
is largely due that vigorous development in the copying pictures, and was so enabled to save suffi-
various branches of graphic art which has placed cient to migrate to Vienna. Joining the Arts and
Vienna on an equality with other great art centres Crafts Schools he found in Prof. Roller a teacher
in Europe—if indeed she has not outpaced them after his own mind. It was one of Prof. Roller's
"THE TENNIS PLAYERS" (COLOURED STENCIL DRAWING) 1SY LUDWIG JUNGNICKEL
22
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in certain directions. Be that as it
may, there have gone forth from
these schools, and are still? going
forth, a generation of young men
and women who are filled with a
genuine feeling for art and by their
subsequent achievements have added
greatly to the prestige of the schools.
One such is Ludwig Jungnickel, a
young artist whose undoubted origi-
nality has manifested itself especially
in stencil compositions of diverse
kinds, and his work in this direction
is so far out of the common as to
justify notice here.
Jungnickel, who is a native of
Munich, was attracted to Vienna by
the fame of the Kunstgewerbeschulen
and the reputation which Prof. Roller
especially had acquired as a teacher.
At Munich he studied drawing at the
evening classes held at the Gewerbe-
„„ „ schule (Artizans' School), contrary
COLOURED STENCIL DRAWING BY LUDWIG JUNGNICKEL v " , '
to the wishes of his relatives and
friends, but being bent on becoming
the course of it reference was made to the progress an artist by profession he joined the School of Arts
accomplished in the graphic and decorative arts and Crafts there. He soon gave this up, however,
under the new regime initiated by Baron Myrbach. and, notwithstanding financial and other obstacles,
To him and his able coadjutor, Prof. Roller, made his way to Rome, where he got a living by
is largely due that vigorous development in the copying pictures, and was so enabled to save suffi-
various branches of graphic art which has placed cient to migrate to Vienna. Joining the Arts and
Vienna on an equality with other great art centres Crafts Schools he found in Prof. Roller a teacher
in Europe—if indeed she has not outpaced them after his own mind. It was one of Prof. Roller's
"THE TENNIS PLAYERS" (COLOURED STENCIL DRAWING) 1SY LUDWIG JUNGNICKEL
22