DOI Heft:
Nr. 179 (February 1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20777#0092
Studio- Talk
by M. Gilbert Pejac was sufficiently original in
shape to merit praise, as was a fine crystal jug
with a graceful handle. A vase by M. Husson, with
decoration rather intricate in my opinion, but a diffi-
cult piece of work as regards execution, seemed
to me a veritable masterpiece of professional
practice. M. Edouard Monod’s fruit stand and
little bowl with narrow bands pleased me greatly,
and I was delighted, too, with a silver-gilt tea
service by M. Becker, the decorative sentiment
being here very pleasant, and accompanied by
much orderliness of form. • M. Carlo Bugatti
showed a beautiful silver dish, with fishes as the
decorative motifs, but this artist in striving to give
proof of imaginativeness has fallen into strange
extravagances. I should not care for a service of
which the cafetiere, the teapot, the sugar basin
and milk-ewer took the shape of an elephant’s
head adorned with huge ivory tusks ! A. S.
(To the illustrations belonging to the foregoing
notes of our Paris correspondents we add repro-
ductions of some interesting pottery by M. Bigot,
two pieces of furniture of excellent design by
M. Jallot, and a hotel by M. Sorel.)
BERLIN.—We are always sure to find
some pictorial treats in the well-con-
ducted Salon Wertheim. On a recent
occasion it was Henry Luyten of
Antwerp who was the clou there. He is quite
enamoured of these types of fisherfolk and peasants
of his neighbourhood, and of the cattle, downs, and
fields of his Flemish home. All these sights are
observed in the varying moods of the day, but he
loves them best in the glory of sunlight. His brush
works like a detective instrument in capturing the
faintest shimmer of gold on the country-girl’s
tresses or on the farmhouse floor. Luyten’s
peasants have, like those of Walker and Meunier,
a certain classical type in feature and gesture, and
this idealism lends an ennobling charm to the
naturalism of the painter.
It is an indisputable merit of the Berlin Seces-
sion to have roused interest in black-and-white
art. The winter exhibition, which is held in the
Salon Cassirer this year, is, therefore, a great
attraction. The most original exhibitor is the
sculptor Ignatius Taschner. His series of coloured
drawings, ornaments, and studies after life for book
“net mending”
BY HENRY LUYTEN
by M. Gilbert Pejac was sufficiently original in
shape to merit praise, as was a fine crystal jug
with a graceful handle. A vase by M. Husson, with
decoration rather intricate in my opinion, but a diffi-
cult piece of work as regards execution, seemed
to me a veritable masterpiece of professional
practice. M. Edouard Monod’s fruit stand and
little bowl with narrow bands pleased me greatly,
and I was delighted, too, with a silver-gilt tea
service by M. Becker, the decorative sentiment
being here very pleasant, and accompanied by
much orderliness of form. • M. Carlo Bugatti
showed a beautiful silver dish, with fishes as the
decorative motifs, but this artist in striving to give
proof of imaginativeness has fallen into strange
extravagances. I should not care for a service of
which the cafetiere, the teapot, the sugar basin
and milk-ewer took the shape of an elephant’s
head adorned with huge ivory tusks ! A. S.
(To the illustrations belonging to the foregoing
notes of our Paris correspondents we add repro-
ductions of some interesting pottery by M. Bigot,
two pieces of furniture of excellent design by
M. Jallot, and a hotel by M. Sorel.)
BERLIN.—We are always sure to find
some pictorial treats in the well-con-
ducted Salon Wertheim. On a recent
occasion it was Henry Luyten of
Antwerp who was the clou there. He is quite
enamoured of these types of fisherfolk and peasants
of his neighbourhood, and of the cattle, downs, and
fields of his Flemish home. All these sights are
observed in the varying moods of the day, but he
loves them best in the glory of sunlight. His brush
works like a detective instrument in capturing the
faintest shimmer of gold on the country-girl’s
tresses or on the farmhouse floor. Luyten’s
peasants have, like those of Walker and Meunier,
a certain classical type in feature and gesture, and
this idealism lends an ennobling charm to the
naturalism of the painter.
It is an indisputable merit of the Berlin Seces-
sion to have roused interest in black-and-white
art. The winter exhibition, which is held in the
Salon Cassirer this year, is, therefore, a great
attraction. The most original exhibitor is the
sculptor Ignatius Taschner. His series of coloured
drawings, ornaments, and studies after life for book
“net mending”
BY HENRY LUYTEN