DOI Heft:
No. 174 (September, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0355
Studio- Talk
England, Gustav Gurschner was entrusted with the and with the socle, which is slightly curved, is over
task, which he has ably fulfilled. It was no easy task thirteen feet high. The medallions are twenty inches
which the sculptor undertook, for there were many in diameter, and have been executed in bronze ;
difficulties in the way even after the form it was to they occupy the face of the stone, which also bears
take was definitely fixed upon. The features of the an inscription relating to the event commemorated.
Emperor were familiar to him, but it was otherwise On either side are two pilasters about eight feet
with the King. With his usual thought and kind- high with seats between, also of grey granite, the
ness, King Edward smoothed the way by sitting to whole forming almost a semi-circle. The pilasters
the sculptor four times during his stay in Marienbad are ornamented with bronze crowns of the monarchs,
last year and once in London, whither the and surmounted by bronze-gilt Etruscan vases with
sculptor had followed him. The King is highly a rich patina, and containing plants and flowers,
satisfied with the medallion portrait of himself, The whole is something entirely new in monumental
which is a dignified work. The artist has brought sculpture, for this mixture of bronze patina and
out the characteristic lines of his face, and the hewn granite has never been used in this connection
likeness is unmistakable. That of the Emperor in Austria. The monument is situated in an orna-
Francis Joseph is equally good, though his Majesty, mental garden at the head of a walk which was speci-
owing to his advanced age and the need for ally made for the use of King Edward, so that he
avoiding fatigue, did not sit to Herr Gurschner. might be far from the "madding crowd," and yet one
Still, in this case also, the portrait has been of them. Herr Gurschner has achieved a real work
pronounced by those in intimate intercourse wit of art, which will be an ornament to Marienbad.
the Emperor to be an excellent likeness.
Friedrich Gornik, of whose plastic productions
The monument of which these medallions form some examples are here reproduced, is a native of
part is also the work of Herr Gurschner. It is of Carinthia, and began his career as a student at the
finely-hewn, unpolished granite of a soft grey tone, Fachschule in Villach, one of the best-known
" DRAUGHT HORSES "
MODELLED BY FRIEDRICH GORNIK
EXECUTED BY A. RUBENSTEIN
England, Gustav Gurschner was entrusted with the and with the socle, which is slightly curved, is over
task, which he has ably fulfilled. It was no easy task thirteen feet high. The medallions are twenty inches
which the sculptor undertook, for there were many in diameter, and have been executed in bronze ;
difficulties in the way even after the form it was to they occupy the face of the stone, which also bears
take was definitely fixed upon. The features of the an inscription relating to the event commemorated.
Emperor were familiar to him, but it was otherwise On either side are two pilasters about eight feet
with the King. With his usual thought and kind- high with seats between, also of grey granite, the
ness, King Edward smoothed the way by sitting to whole forming almost a semi-circle. The pilasters
the sculptor four times during his stay in Marienbad are ornamented with bronze crowns of the monarchs,
last year and once in London, whither the and surmounted by bronze-gilt Etruscan vases with
sculptor had followed him. The King is highly a rich patina, and containing plants and flowers,
satisfied with the medallion portrait of himself, The whole is something entirely new in monumental
which is a dignified work. The artist has brought sculpture, for this mixture of bronze patina and
out the characteristic lines of his face, and the hewn granite has never been used in this connection
likeness is unmistakable. That of the Emperor in Austria. The monument is situated in an orna-
Francis Joseph is equally good, though his Majesty, mental garden at the head of a walk which was speci-
owing to his advanced age and the need for ally made for the use of King Edward, so that he
avoiding fatigue, did not sit to Herr Gurschner. might be far from the "madding crowd," and yet one
Still, in this case also, the portrait has been of them. Herr Gurschner has achieved a real work
pronounced by those in intimate intercourse wit of art, which will be an ornament to Marienbad.
the Emperor to be an excellent likeness.
Friedrich Gornik, of whose plastic productions
The monument of which these medallions form some examples are here reproduced, is a native of
part is also the work of Herr Gurschner. It is of Carinthia, and began his career as a student at the
finely-hewn, unpolished granite of a soft grey tone, Fachschule in Villach, one of the best-known
" DRAUGHT HORSES "
MODELLED BY FRIEDRICH GORNIK
EXECUTED BY A. RUBENSTEIN