Studio: international art (44.1908)

Art School Notes

CARVED WOOD PANEL

(Kunstgewerbliche Fachschule, Flensburg)

BY CARL BOTTCHER

in the year 1890 by
Heinrich Sauer, an excel-
lent artist, to meet what
was felt to be a pressing
need; but it is interesting
to note that there was a
school for wood-carving
in this part of Germany in
the middle ages.5 On the
death of Herr Sauer in
1905, the present director,
Herr Anton Huber, took
over charge of the school.

The school possesses
well-equipped workshops
for wood-carving and for
furniture-making. The
instruction in these depart-
ments is both practical
and theoretical, the morn-
ings, from seven o’clock
until half - past twelve,

school in which the curri-
culum is adapted to the
particular industry or craft.
Schools such as these are
commonly called Fach-
schulen, because they are
devoted toaspecial branch
of technical work or
“Fach.” _

There is a school of
the kind just named at
Flensburg, in the province
of Schleswig - Holstein.
The district is one in
which furniture or cabinet
making and decorative
wood-carving have been
staple industries for cen-
turies ; hence these crafts
are specially cultivated
at the Kunstgewerbliche
Fachschule in this town.
In the accompanying illus-
trations may be seen ex-
amples of the work done
by students of the school.
This school was founded

AN ALTAR FOR A BAPTISTERY, EXECUTED BY STUDENTS OF THE
KUNSTGEWERBLICHE FACHSCHULE AT FLENSBURG

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