DOI issue:
No. 197 (August, 1909)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0270
Studio Talk
Manguin, Charles Guerin, Aristide Maillot, Felix
Vallotton, Eugen Spiro, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice
Denis, Jean Puy, and a few others, were entirely
new to Vienna, and their methods gave occasion
for considerable diversity of opinion, arrived at
generally with inadequate knowledge of their mean-
ing. An interesting display of graphic art by
British artists was an agreeable feature of the
exhibition, among those represented being Messrs.
Charles Shannon, Muirhead Bone, Joseph Pennell,
Alphonse Legros, Charles Ricketts, Gordon Craig,
and W. Nicholson; and work by various British
architects and designers, such as W. Baillie Scott,
Ernest Newton, C. F. Voysey, Charles Macintosh,
C. R. Ashbee, J. Paul Cooper, the Artificers’
Guild, and others, attracted considerable notice.
Many German artists of note also contributed.
Count Ralkreuth sent three excellent portraits,
and Max Slevogt, Max Liebermann, Prof. Triibner,
B. Pankok, Ernst Stern, and Prof. Taschner were
also well represented.
Among the Austrians Gustav Klimt was the
leading spirit. His seven pictures—each a poem
in itself—were exhibited in a room decorated in gold
and white. His Hoffnung (Hope) is a work of
commanding power. In it he has sung a solemn
hymn of praise to motherhood. A young woman
stands nude before us, her face framed in golden
hair and radiant with hope, while behind her is
grim Death, with Misery, Hopelessness, Sickness,
Dejection, and Sorrow in his train, symbolic of
the evils which lie in wait for her. Carl Moll
likewise contributed excellent examples of his art
as did W. Legler, J. Auchentaller, W. List, M.
Kurzweil, P. Breithut, Emil Orlik, L. Blauenstern,
and other well-known artists.
The mere mention of the names of sculptors
who were represented is guarantee for the quality
of their work:—George Minne, Hugo Lederer,
Franz Metzner, Max Klinger, Richard Luksch and
J ulius Meisel. There was a fine show of ceramics
from Nymphenburg and from the Vienna SchooL
The architects represented were Josef Hoffmann,
E. J. Wimmer, Otto Prutscher, Karl Witzmann,
INTERIOR, t: KUNSTSCHAU ” EXHIBITION, VIENNA ARRANGED BY PROF. JOSEF HOFFMANN
EQUESTRIAN STATUE BY PROF. METZNER. LARGE FIGURES BY PROF. H. LEDERER
Manguin, Charles Guerin, Aristide Maillot, Felix
Vallotton, Eugen Spiro, Pierre Bonnard, Maurice
Denis, Jean Puy, and a few others, were entirely
new to Vienna, and their methods gave occasion
for considerable diversity of opinion, arrived at
generally with inadequate knowledge of their mean-
ing. An interesting display of graphic art by
British artists was an agreeable feature of the
exhibition, among those represented being Messrs.
Charles Shannon, Muirhead Bone, Joseph Pennell,
Alphonse Legros, Charles Ricketts, Gordon Craig,
and W. Nicholson; and work by various British
architects and designers, such as W. Baillie Scott,
Ernest Newton, C. F. Voysey, Charles Macintosh,
C. R. Ashbee, J. Paul Cooper, the Artificers’
Guild, and others, attracted considerable notice.
Many German artists of note also contributed.
Count Ralkreuth sent three excellent portraits,
and Max Slevogt, Max Liebermann, Prof. Triibner,
B. Pankok, Ernst Stern, and Prof. Taschner were
also well represented.
Among the Austrians Gustav Klimt was the
leading spirit. His seven pictures—each a poem
in itself—were exhibited in a room decorated in gold
and white. His Hoffnung (Hope) is a work of
commanding power. In it he has sung a solemn
hymn of praise to motherhood. A young woman
stands nude before us, her face framed in golden
hair and radiant with hope, while behind her is
grim Death, with Misery, Hopelessness, Sickness,
Dejection, and Sorrow in his train, symbolic of
the evils which lie in wait for her. Carl Moll
likewise contributed excellent examples of his art
as did W. Legler, J. Auchentaller, W. List, M.
Kurzweil, P. Breithut, Emil Orlik, L. Blauenstern,
and other well-known artists.
The mere mention of the names of sculptors
who were represented is guarantee for the quality
of their work:—George Minne, Hugo Lederer,
Franz Metzner, Max Klinger, Richard Luksch and
J ulius Meisel. There was a fine show of ceramics
from Nymphenburg and from the Vienna SchooL
The architects represented were Josef Hoffmann,
E. J. Wimmer, Otto Prutscher, Karl Witzmann,
INTERIOR, t: KUNSTSCHAU ” EXHIBITION, VIENNA ARRANGED BY PROF. JOSEF HOFFMANN
EQUESTRIAN STATUE BY PROF. METZNER. LARGE FIGURES BY PROF. H. LEDERER