DOI Heft:
No. 197 (August, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Reviews and notices
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0276
Reviews and Notices
COVER OF “AN EHREN UND AN SIEGEN REICH” (MAX HERZIG, VIENNA)
DESIGNED BY PROF. H. LEFJ.ER & JOSEF URBAN
An Ehren und an Siegen Reich. (Vienna:
Max Herzig.) Salon ed. 150 Kronen; Imperial
Jubilee Ed., 1,000 Kronen.—This magnificent
work, which elicited general admiration when it
was shown at the last exhibition of the Hagenbund
in Vienna, is at once of historic and artistic
interest—historic because of its fine reproductions
of pictures by talented artists representing a series
of stirring episodes in the history of the Austrian
empire, a descriptive account of which is given in
the text accompanying them, and artistic because
of the amount of talent bestowed on the embellish-
ment of the volume, some idea of which will be
gained from the illustrations we give of the cover
and title - page. These, with other decorative
features, are the joint work of Heinrich Lefler and
246
Josef Urban, both of
them well known as
decorative designers
of the first rank in
Austria. In the case
of a volume of this
character, with a defi-
nitely historical pur-
port, it was only
natural that the orna-
mental designs should
embody traditional
elements, but while
this is so, there is at
the same time abun-
dant evidence of the
originality for which
these artists are noted.
The work is dedicated
to the Emperor
Francis Joseph, to
whom as its patron a
copy of the larger
jubilee edition was
presented. A similar
volume was produced
some time ago with
German history as its
subject-matter, and a
third volume is con-
templated in which
British history will be
signalized.
Drikkehorn og Solv-
tdj fra Middelalder og
Renaissance. Udgivet
ved Jorgen Olrik.
(Copenhagen: G. E.
C. Gad.) — This folio volume, published under
the auspices of the Danish National Museum,
gives an account of the important collection of
drinking-horns and silver plate in the museum, as
also of the large accumulation of silver treasure-
trove which has come to the museum from
different parts of Denmark, consisting of a large
variety of articles, ornamental and useful, supposed
to have been hidden by their owners during the
wars of the seventeenth century. Some very fine
specimens of the drinking-horns for which Denmark
(and, in fact, Scandinavia generally) is noted
are illustrated, many of them being ornamented
with elaborate silver decoration. That the craft
of the silversmith was an exceptionally flourishing
one in Denmark in Mediaeval times is shown by
COVER OF “AN EHREN UND AN SIEGEN REICH” (MAX HERZIG, VIENNA)
DESIGNED BY PROF. H. LEFJ.ER & JOSEF URBAN
An Ehren und an Siegen Reich. (Vienna:
Max Herzig.) Salon ed. 150 Kronen; Imperial
Jubilee Ed., 1,000 Kronen.—This magnificent
work, which elicited general admiration when it
was shown at the last exhibition of the Hagenbund
in Vienna, is at once of historic and artistic
interest—historic because of its fine reproductions
of pictures by talented artists representing a series
of stirring episodes in the history of the Austrian
empire, a descriptive account of which is given in
the text accompanying them, and artistic because
of the amount of talent bestowed on the embellish-
ment of the volume, some idea of which will be
gained from the illustrations we give of the cover
and title - page. These, with other decorative
features, are the joint work of Heinrich Lefler and
246
Josef Urban, both of
them well known as
decorative designers
of the first rank in
Austria. In the case
of a volume of this
character, with a defi-
nitely historical pur-
port, it was only
natural that the orna-
mental designs should
embody traditional
elements, but while
this is so, there is at
the same time abun-
dant evidence of the
originality for which
these artists are noted.
The work is dedicated
to the Emperor
Francis Joseph, to
whom as its patron a
copy of the larger
jubilee edition was
presented. A similar
volume was produced
some time ago with
German history as its
subject-matter, and a
third volume is con-
templated in which
British history will be
signalized.
Drikkehorn og Solv-
tdj fra Middelalder og
Renaissance. Udgivet
ved Jorgen Olrik.
(Copenhagen: G. E.
C. Gad.) — This folio volume, published under
the auspices of the Danish National Museum,
gives an account of the important collection of
drinking-horns and silver plate in the museum, as
also of the large accumulation of silver treasure-
trove which has come to the museum from
different parts of Denmark, consisting of a large
variety of articles, ornamental and useful, supposed
to have been hidden by their owners during the
wars of the seventeenth century. Some very fine
specimens of the drinking-horns for which Denmark
(and, in fact, Scandinavia generally) is noted
are illustrated, many of them being ornamented
with elaborate silver decoration. That the craft
of the silversmith was an exceptionally flourishing
one in Denmark in Mediaeval times is shown by