DOI Heft:
Nr. 187 (October 1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20965#0092
Studio-Talk
‘the giant thistles”
appeared in The Studio about a year ago, lately
held a collective exhibition at the Hagenbund
rooms. Naturally it aroused much interest, both
because it was the first collective exhibition they
had held in Vienna for some years, and because
of the intrinsic merits of the work done by
members of the society, for though many of
them have studied in France and other foreign
countries, the extraneous influences to which
they have thus been subjected have not affected
the individuality which marks the productions of
each of them, nor has the national character
common to all of them been thereby obscured.
from the steppes of Russia
with their grey sombre
tones, to sunny Italy with
feathery trees against a
background of low hills,
or churches whose golden
cupolas seem to vie with
the sun. Wyspianski, poet,
painter and craftsman, was
nervous, eager, restless,
an incessant worker and
thinker, who seemed to
be ever hurrying as if
aware that his days were
numbered and much was
to be done in a short time.
He was very good in his
portraits of children, and
also did some charming
landscapes, bits of Galician
towns and country scenes.
His painting of An Interior recalls his versatile
nature ; the stage is one which he himself designed
for his own drama “ Boleslaw the Bold,” a play
turning upon an episode in Polish history, and,
as was fitting, the decorations also are national in
character. His stained-glass windows show great
power in design and richness and harmony in
colour; he was indeed a man who “touched
nothing he did not adorn.” The loss of two
such talented men as Stanislawski and Wyspianski
is a serious one indeed for Polish art.
BY JAN STANISLAWSKI
Prof. Axentowicz contributed several fine pastel
Two of the rooms were
very appropriately de-
voted to Jan Stanislawski
and Stanislaw Wyspianski,
two members who have
quite lately been snatched
away by death at an age
when they had only begun
to show their powers.
The former painted some
exquisite little landscapes,
genuine colour lyrics one
may call them. In his
wanderings the painter
passed through many
lands and has left behind
a rich collection of works
with motifs culled from
widely different climes—-
70
AN INTERIOR
BY STANISLAW WYSPIANSKI
‘the giant thistles”
appeared in The Studio about a year ago, lately
held a collective exhibition at the Hagenbund
rooms. Naturally it aroused much interest, both
because it was the first collective exhibition they
had held in Vienna for some years, and because
of the intrinsic merits of the work done by
members of the society, for though many of
them have studied in France and other foreign
countries, the extraneous influences to which
they have thus been subjected have not affected
the individuality which marks the productions of
each of them, nor has the national character
common to all of them been thereby obscured.
from the steppes of Russia
with their grey sombre
tones, to sunny Italy with
feathery trees against a
background of low hills,
or churches whose golden
cupolas seem to vie with
the sun. Wyspianski, poet,
painter and craftsman, was
nervous, eager, restless,
an incessant worker and
thinker, who seemed to
be ever hurrying as if
aware that his days were
numbered and much was
to be done in a short time.
He was very good in his
portraits of children, and
also did some charming
landscapes, bits of Galician
towns and country scenes.
His painting of An Interior recalls his versatile
nature ; the stage is one which he himself designed
for his own drama “ Boleslaw the Bold,” a play
turning upon an episode in Polish history, and,
as was fitting, the decorations also are national in
character. His stained-glass windows show great
power in design and richness and harmony in
colour; he was indeed a man who “touched
nothing he did not adorn.” The loss of two
such talented men as Stanislawski and Wyspianski
is a serious one indeed for Polish art.
BY JAN STANISLAWSKI
Prof. Axentowicz contributed several fine pastel
Two of the rooms were
very appropriately de-
voted to Jan Stanislawski
and Stanislaw Wyspianski,
two members who have
quite lately been snatched
away by death at an age
when they had only begun
to show their powers.
The former painted some
exquisite little landscapes,
genuine colour lyrics one
may call them. In his
wanderings the painter
passed through many
lands and has left behind
a rich collection of works
with motifs culled from
widely different climes—-
70
AN INTERIOR
BY STANISLAW WYSPIANSKI