Studio: international art (42.1908)

Studio-Talk

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OPENHAGEN.
— Mr. N. V.
Dorph every
year more
firmly establishes his posi-
tion as a highly - gifted
painter possessing a marked
artistic personality. He
takes his calling seriously;
he always follows his own
paths and works out his
own ends, and it is a matter
of great satisfaction to his
many friends to watch and
place on record the on-
ward yet consistent evolu-
tion which so unmistakably
demonstrates itself in his
work. Dorph has always
possessed a highly-cultured
sense of the decorative,
and this has happily mani-
fested itself in many of his-
landscape efforts, in which
he has abandoned that
purely naturalistic concep-
tion which for so many of
"april" (Seep. 241) by franciska esser-eeynier his contemporaries still re-

mains the first article of

exhibition may be counted as a success; it was their artistic faith. I think Dorph, as a decorative
honoured by a visit from the Emperor, who expressed landscapist, may claim for himself having in a way
his approval of the Society's aims. A. S. L. discovered "newland," for in spite of the decorative:

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BY n. V. DORPHi