DOI issue:
Nr. 180 (March 1908)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20777#0169
Studio-Talk
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NEWSPAPER KIOSK
DESIGNED BY PROF. A. GRENANDER
losing the character of greatness. In his paintings
this reliability becomes sometimes rather too insistent,
especially as the naturalist is not dainty in the choice
of his models.
Bernhard Frydag, a young sculptor from Westphalia
who has just left the Konigliche Kunstgewerbe Schule
as one of the most promising pupils, has given proofs
of a most versatile talent. He has won great success
by his idyllic Shepherd Fountain, which was exhibited
at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition last year and
bought by the town of Leipzig, and he is now
executing an imposing war-monument, for which he
has just been awarded the first prize in an important
competition.
Those who remember the illustrations of Prof.
Grenander’s interior architecture which appeared in
these pages a few months back will be interested in
his newspaper kiosk shown on this page.
The exhibition of the new Werdandi-Bund in the
Kiinstlerhaus represented a secession from the se-
cession. It was the first of a series of exhibitions
which are to take the front against French decadent
15°
influence—against the over-estimation of tech-
nical cleverness. They are to enthrone again
emotional qualities and the typical features of
the German national spirit, while giving scope to
newly acquired technical principles. The names
of some of the best artists, like Thoma and
Uhde, are in the Committee List, and the first
exhibition was certainly a favourable introduc-
tion. There were no revelations of a new
genius, but among the hundred-and-fifty numbers
of the catalogue a quantity of imaginative works,
landscapes, portraits, and genres, appealed
strongly to our sympathies. Thoma spoke his
own deep, melodious and sometimes naive
language in several pictures; and some of the
Worpswede artists, as Hans von Ende, Vogeler,
and Mackensen, were seen at their best. Brasch
and von Volkmann of Karlsruhe, Heider, von
SHEPHERD FOUNTAIN BY BERNHARD FRYDAG
/
NEWSPAPER KIOSK
DESIGNED BY PROF. A. GRENANDER
losing the character of greatness. In his paintings
this reliability becomes sometimes rather too insistent,
especially as the naturalist is not dainty in the choice
of his models.
Bernhard Frydag, a young sculptor from Westphalia
who has just left the Konigliche Kunstgewerbe Schule
as one of the most promising pupils, has given proofs
of a most versatile talent. He has won great success
by his idyllic Shepherd Fountain, which was exhibited
at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition last year and
bought by the town of Leipzig, and he is now
executing an imposing war-monument, for which he
has just been awarded the first prize in an important
competition.
Those who remember the illustrations of Prof.
Grenander’s interior architecture which appeared in
these pages a few months back will be interested in
his newspaper kiosk shown on this page.
The exhibition of the new Werdandi-Bund in the
Kiinstlerhaus represented a secession from the se-
cession. It was the first of a series of exhibitions
which are to take the front against French decadent
15°
influence—against the over-estimation of tech-
nical cleverness. They are to enthrone again
emotional qualities and the typical features of
the German national spirit, while giving scope to
newly acquired technical principles. The names
of some of the best artists, like Thoma and
Uhde, are in the Committee List, and the first
exhibition was certainly a favourable introduc-
tion. There were no revelations of a new
genius, but among the hundred-and-fifty numbers
of the catalogue a quantity of imaginative works,
landscapes, portraits, and genres, appealed
strongly to our sympathies. Thoma spoke his
own deep, melodious and sometimes naive
language in several pictures; and some of the
Worpswede artists, as Hans von Ende, Vogeler,
and Mackensen, were seen at their best. Brasch
and von Volkmann of Karlsruhe, Heider, von
SHEPHERD FOUNTAIN BY BERNHARD FRYDAG