DOI Heft:
Nr. 182 (May 1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20777#0353
Studio-Talk
DINING-ROOM OF TJOLOHOLM CASTLE L. I. WAHLMAN, ARCHITECT
(See Stockholm Studio-Talk)
failed to reach their customary high standard of
art. The greatest interest of the exhibition perhaps
centred in V. Seroff, who has not been so well
represented for a long time. One may possibly
find in the pose of his fine portrait of a lady some
trace of artificiality; but ample compensation for
any defect of this kind is afforded by the splendid
painting of the dressing-room which he has used
as a background and by the aristocratic grey-black
tone of the work as a whole. In his historic genre
picture, Peter the Great, which has elicited an
almost excessive chorus of admiration from Russian
critics, the gigantic element in the monarch’s pre-
sence is rendered with much feeling, but not
without a trace of humour; and in particular the
landscape, in which he has fittingly represented
the newly-founded northern capital of the empire,
is exceptionally well treated.
In the historic paintings of Alexandre Benois,
on the other band, the purely historic element is
subordinated to the stylistic, which finds such
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masterly expression in this artist’s works. Alike
in his scenes from Versailles at the epoch of its
glory, and in his designs for the ballet Le Pavilion
d'Armide, the talent that asserts itself is at once
vigorous, refined and tasteful, albeit somewhat
lacking in warmth. Akin in point of style, the
works of his colleague, E. Lanceray, usually pulsate
with more warmth; but on this occasion un-
fortunately this genial painter was only represented
by one small work, a hunting scene, in the costume
of the eighteenth century.
Of the other members of the group belonging to
St. Petersburg, Bakst and Kustodieff had nothing
of particular interest to show. Dobuzinski’s
town scenes appeared somewhat drier than on past
occasions, and only his Man in Spectacles, a quite
original bit of work, made a real impression.
Golovine, on the other hand, is more and more
making his way to the front rank. Full of
“stimmung" and original in method of treatment
was his landscape with birch trees. His designs
DINING-ROOM OF TJOLOHOLM CASTLE L. I. WAHLMAN, ARCHITECT
(See Stockholm Studio-Talk)
failed to reach their customary high standard of
art. The greatest interest of the exhibition perhaps
centred in V. Seroff, who has not been so well
represented for a long time. One may possibly
find in the pose of his fine portrait of a lady some
trace of artificiality; but ample compensation for
any defect of this kind is afforded by the splendid
painting of the dressing-room which he has used
as a background and by the aristocratic grey-black
tone of the work as a whole. In his historic genre
picture, Peter the Great, which has elicited an
almost excessive chorus of admiration from Russian
critics, the gigantic element in the monarch’s pre-
sence is rendered with much feeling, but not
without a trace of humour; and in particular the
landscape, in which he has fittingly represented
the newly-founded northern capital of the empire,
is exceptionally well treated.
In the historic paintings of Alexandre Benois,
on the other band, the purely historic element is
subordinated to the stylistic, which finds such
334
masterly expression in this artist’s works. Alike
in his scenes from Versailles at the epoch of its
glory, and in his designs for the ballet Le Pavilion
d'Armide, the talent that asserts itself is at once
vigorous, refined and tasteful, albeit somewhat
lacking in warmth. Akin in point of style, the
works of his colleague, E. Lanceray, usually pulsate
with more warmth; but on this occasion un-
fortunately this genial painter was only represented
by one small work, a hunting scene, in the costume
of the eighteenth century.
Of the other members of the group belonging to
St. Petersburg, Bakst and Kustodieff had nothing
of particular interest to show. Dobuzinski’s
town scenes appeared somewhat drier than on past
occasions, and only his Man in Spectacles, a quite
original bit of work, made a real impression.
Golovine, on the other hand, is more and more
making his way to the front rank. Full of
“stimmung" and original in method of treatment
was his landscape with birch trees. His designs