DOI Heft:
Nr. 193 (April 1909)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20966#0264
Studio-Talk
EASTER EGGS AS DECORATED BY THE PEASANT WOMEN OF SLAV RACES IN GALICIA AND MORAVIA
claim to a high rank among those who have done
the same thing. His portrait of Rembrandt, after
a painting by the master himself (the one with a
hat, life size), was a revelation as to the capabilities
of the copper-plate and the needle. Soon after he
came to Vienna he was commissioned by the late
Herr Miethke to make etched reproductions of
the great masters in the Vienna galleries for a
colossal work on the subject, which was published
in 1885. and was a great success. In later years he
did the same with other galleries. It is a pity Prof.
Unger did not recognise his power as an original
etcher sooner. Only comparatively late in life, when
etching had gained a better status, did he begin to
create, and then he showed himself a master both
in black-and-white and in coloured etchings.
A more prolific etcher hardly exists; his plates
are legion and include portraits, landscapes, in-
teriors, book-plates, decorative subjects. Not the
least part of his claim to fame arises from his
eminent qualities as a teacher. Among his past
pupils are many who are doing good original work,
238
such as Wesemann, Pontini, Oswald Roux, Ferdi-
nand Lux, Gold, Krizmann, and Schmutzer, his
successor at the Academy. Few, indeed, can look
back upon so fruitful a life as his—fruitful both
as a worker and as a teacher. The etching pro-
duced here as a supplement is one of a series of
subjects derived from Lovrana, one of the pro-
fessor’s haunts in days gone by A. S. L.
PRAGUE.—In the contemplative life of all
Slav tribes a strong and impetuous im-
pulse tends towards decoration. It is,
above all, the Slav woman who has
through centuries maintained and improved this
natural instinct. She not only adorned her gar-
ments and those of her family, but also the walls,
furniture, dishes and other objects of daily use
with those charming ornaments which strike us
by their richness of shape and their exuberant
display of colour. This peasant art of the old
Slavs has declined with the apparently vanishing
inventive powers of the population. Only in a few
remote villages, far from the industrial centres, is
EASTER EGGS AS DECORATED BY THE PEASANT WOMEN OF SLAV RACES IN GALICIA AND MORAVIA
claim to a high rank among those who have done
the same thing. His portrait of Rembrandt, after
a painting by the master himself (the one with a
hat, life size), was a revelation as to the capabilities
of the copper-plate and the needle. Soon after he
came to Vienna he was commissioned by the late
Herr Miethke to make etched reproductions of
the great masters in the Vienna galleries for a
colossal work on the subject, which was published
in 1885. and was a great success. In later years he
did the same with other galleries. It is a pity Prof.
Unger did not recognise his power as an original
etcher sooner. Only comparatively late in life, when
etching had gained a better status, did he begin to
create, and then he showed himself a master both
in black-and-white and in coloured etchings.
A more prolific etcher hardly exists; his plates
are legion and include portraits, landscapes, in-
teriors, book-plates, decorative subjects. Not the
least part of his claim to fame arises from his
eminent qualities as a teacher. Among his past
pupils are many who are doing good original work,
238
such as Wesemann, Pontini, Oswald Roux, Ferdi-
nand Lux, Gold, Krizmann, and Schmutzer, his
successor at the Academy. Few, indeed, can look
back upon so fruitful a life as his—fruitful both
as a worker and as a teacher. The etching pro-
duced here as a supplement is one of a series of
subjects derived from Lovrana, one of the pro-
fessor’s haunts in days gone by A. S. L.
PRAGUE.—In the contemplative life of all
Slav tribes a strong and impetuous im-
pulse tends towards decoration. It is,
above all, the Slav woman who has
through centuries maintained and improved this
natural instinct. She not only adorned her gar-
ments and those of her family, but also the walls,
furniture, dishes and other objects of daily use
with those charming ornaments which strike us
by their richness of shape and their exuberant
display of colour. This peasant art of the old
Slavs has declined with the apparently vanishing
inventive powers of the population. Only in a few
remote villages, far from the industrial centres, is