DOI Heft:
No. 175 (October, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20776#0097
Studio-Talk
M
centenary medal plaquette by rudolf bosselt baptismal medal
by constantin starck by constantin starck
friend of animal-life. He had imbued himself climax, for, during the past few years various in-
with the finest Parisian and Munich culture of dividual artists have been devoting their talents to
his time; but he is also the very artist to com- this sadly neglected sphere of work, and en-
mand attention by the sovereignty ot personal deavoured to check the vulgarity now rampant,
endowments. Aristocracy with the charm of -■
naturalness—this is his peculiar attraction. J. J. Here in Munich among the younger generation
of artists Max Pfeiffer in particular has taken upon
UNICH.—The cemeteries of our great himself the praiseworthy task of opening the eyes
cities of to-day when compared with of masons to the natural beauty of our indigenous
many a hallowed churchyard in our stones, and discouraging the huge trade now
old towns, or the peaceful gardens of carried on in polished granite and angels cut in
the dead, studded with simple crosses of iron or marble of alabaster whiteness. By careful execu-
wood, in villages remote from the world, reveal tion of his own models and designs he has showed
unmistakably a deplorable poverty of artistic them how this natural beauty could be utilised and
culture. Here where a true and thoughtful art enhanced by appropriate methods of treatment,
should have yielded flowers at once simple and The task has not proved an easy one, but energy
comely, blatant pride of wealth and deliberate and firm resolution have enabled him to overcome
ostentation clamorously seek to gain the upper all difficulties, and the results have been such as to
hand. It is only seldom, very seldom, in fact, justify his endeavours,
that one finds here and
there, amid the throng of
ungainly and meaningless
tombstones, with which
uncultured stone - masons
and other interested parties
contrive to carry on a brisk
trade, a memorial which by
the unpretentiousness of its
structural features and its
dignified ornamentation
embodies that feeling of
sanctity which obviously
pertains to such a place.
Such becoming decoration
of graves, however, is
merely an oasis in a
barren wilderness of bad
taste, but ihere are signs
that this deplorable state
of things has reached its " two horsemen in a thunderstorm " by Ferdinand von rayski
75
M
centenary medal plaquette by rudolf bosselt baptismal medal
by constantin starck by constantin starck
friend of animal-life. He had imbued himself climax, for, during the past few years various in-
with the finest Parisian and Munich culture of dividual artists have been devoting their talents to
his time; but he is also the very artist to com- this sadly neglected sphere of work, and en-
mand attention by the sovereignty ot personal deavoured to check the vulgarity now rampant,
endowments. Aristocracy with the charm of -■
naturalness—this is his peculiar attraction. J. J. Here in Munich among the younger generation
of artists Max Pfeiffer in particular has taken upon
UNICH.—The cemeteries of our great himself the praiseworthy task of opening the eyes
cities of to-day when compared with of masons to the natural beauty of our indigenous
many a hallowed churchyard in our stones, and discouraging the huge trade now
old towns, or the peaceful gardens of carried on in polished granite and angels cut in
the dead, studded with simple crosses of iron or marble of alabaster whiteness. By careful execu-
wood, in villages remote from the world, reveal tion of his own models and designs he has showed
unmistakably a deplorable poverty of artistic them how this natural beauty could be utilised and
culture. Here where a true and thoughtful art enhanced by appropriate methods of treatment,
should have yielded flowers at once simple and The task has not proved an easy one, but energy
comely, blatant pride of wealth and deliberate and firm resolution have enabled him to overcome
ostentation clamorously seek to gain the upper all difficulties, and the results have been such as to
hand. It is only seldom, very seldom, in fact, justify his endeavours,
that one finds here and
there, amid the throng of
ungainly and meaningless
tombstones, with which
uncultured stone - masons
and other interested parties
contrive to carry on a brisk
trade, a memorial which by
the unpretentiousness of its
structural features and its
dignified ornamentation
embodies that feeling of
sanctity which obviously
pertains to such a place.
Such becoming decoration
of graves, however, is
merely an oasis in a
barren wilderness of bad
taste, but ihere are signs
that this deplorable state
of things has reached its " two horsemen in a thunderstorm " by Ferdinand von rayski
75