Studio: international art (44.1908)

A rt School Notes

WOOD CARVING BY M. HERZ

( Kunstgewerbliche Fachsclmle,
Flensburg)

being devoted to workshop practice, and the after-
noons, from two o’clock until seven,, to theoretical
study, drawing, designing, etc. These hours hold
good for every week-day, including Saturday. Thus
the time spent by students taking a full course
amounts to no less tnan 63 hours per week.
Evening classes are also held for the benefit of
students engaged during the day, and students
attending the day classes are also at liberty to
attend these if they wish. Instruction, however,
is not confined exclusively to the crafts just named.
With the development of the school there has
arisen the need for enlarging its scope, so that now,
in addition to wood-carving and cabinet-making,
which continue to be the principal subjects of train-
ing, there is a general class for applied art; and
some of the students study the designing of such
small buildings as may be conveniently executed

in wood—summer-houses and the like. There is
also a class in which book-keeping, as applicable
to the businesses for which students are qualifying,
is taught. This is an excellent idea, and one which
is worth being followed up elsewhere.

The full course in the wood-carving department
is three years. In the cabinet-making division
most of the students have already served an ap-
prenticeship when they come to the school, and
attend for the purpose of making themselves still
more proficient in workmanship and design, thus
qualifying themselves to be turned out as
masters, if they are not that already. Students
who have finished their course have no difficulty
in obtaining situations, the average salary given
them at the commencement being at about the
rate of ^7 per month.

The Kunstgewerbliche Fachschule at Flensburg

WOOD CARVING BY JENS BERTELSEN

(Kunstgewerbliche Fachschule, Flensburg )

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