DOI Heft:
No. 198 (September, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0353
Studio- Talk
PRINCE REGENT LEOPOLD MEDAL, BY HUGO KAUFMANN
Bequer de Latour received his training as an
artist at Diisseldorf, Munich and Paris, and for the
last two years he has been working in England.
He is, as already indicated, a native of the Rhine
country, his home being Coblenz. He is devoting
himself exclusively to the water-colour medium,
and endeavouring to secure for it greater favour
among artists—a laudable undertaking, but one
which in presence of the almost tyrannical sway
of the oil medium is not
likely to prove easy of
accomplishment.
regarded as the highest attainment in the water-
colour technique at the present time. Wherever
possible he utilizes the characteristic property of
water colour—its transparency—and laying one pure
colour over another instead of mixing them achieves
in this way, along with clarity of tone, great depth
and illuminative power.
In that branch of art
which is concerned with
the production of medals
and plaquettes Germany is
behindEngland andFrance,
for she is without the tra-
dition which these coun-
tries possess both in respect
of the technical methods
associated with the art and
in regard to its apprecia-
tion among connoisseurs.
CONFIRMATION MEDAL, BY7 HEINRICH WADERE
quite modest dimensions,
but in spite of this they
held their own amid their
surroundings by virtue of
the admirable qualities
which distinguished them
—a straightforward, honest
technique from which all
trace of cheap artificiality
is absent, and a refined and
sincere attitude towards
nature—an attitude in pur-
suance of which the aim
is not exclusively to repro-
duce the subjective impres-
sion but to pay due regard
to the objective aspect of things. At the same
time Bequer de Latour is far from being a painter
who selects a pretty bit of scenery merely in order
to please. His innate good taste, which his visits
to England and Paris have been instrumental in
disciplining, has always kept him from that.
The works included in the exhibition comprised
many diverse themes, such as the Champs Elysees,
Westminster Abbey, Marxburg on the Rhine and the
Chapter House. In the drawing of The Drachenfels,
now reproduced in colours, the artist has completely
realised the romantic sentiment of a moonlight
night on the Rhine, and yet has avoided that
sweetness and affectation which, as a rule, render
Rhine pictures so unpalatable. He has a whole-
some contempt for that bravura method of work
and that mania for elimination which are so often
FRANZ VON LENBACH MEDAL, BY PROF. HERMANN HAHN
3T9
PRINCE REGENT LEOPOLD MEDAL, BY HUGO KAUFMANN
Bequer de Latour received his training as an
artist at Diisseldorf, Munich and Paris, and for the
last two years he has been working in England.
He is, as already indicated, a native of the Rhine
country, his home being Coblenz. He is devoting
himself exclusively to the water-colour medium,
and endeavouring to secure for it greater favour
among artists—a laudable undertaking, but one
which in presence of the almost tyrannical sway
of the oil medium is not
likely to prove easy of
accomplishment.
regarded as the highest attainment in the water-
colour technique at the present time. Wherever
possible he utilizes the characteristic property of
water colour—its transparency—and laying one pure
colour over another instead of mixing them achieves
in this way, along with clarity of tone, great depth
and illuminative power.
In that branch of art
which is concerned with
the production of medals
and plaquettes Germany is
behindEngland andFrance,
for she is without the tra-
dition which these coun-
tries possess both in respect
of the technical methods
associated with the art and
in regard to its apprecia-
tion among connoisseurs.
CONFIRMATION MEDAL, BY7 HEINRICH WADERE
quite modest dimensions,
but in spite of this they
held their own amid their
surroundings by virtue of
the admirable qualities
which distinguished them
—a straightforward, honest
technique from which all
trace of cheap artificiality
is absent, and a refined and
sincere attitude towards
nature—an attitude in pur-
suance of which the aim
is not exclusively to repro-
duce the subjective impres-
sion but to pay due regard
to the objective aspect of things. At the same
time Bequer de Latour is far from being a painter
who selects a pretty bit of scenery merely in order
to please. His innate good taste, which his visits
to England and Paris have been instrumental in
disciplining, has always kept him from that.
The works included in the exhibition comprised
many diverse themes, such as the Champs Elysees,
Westminster Abbey, Marxburg on the Rhine and the
Chapter House. In the drawing of The Drachenfels,
now reproduced in colours, the artist has completely
realised the romantic sentiment of a moonlight
night on the Rhine, and yet has avoided that
sweetness and affectation which, as a rule, render
Rhine pictures so unpalatable. He has a whole-
some contempt for that bravura method of work
and that mania for elimination which are so often
FRANZ VON LENBACH MEDAL, BY PROF. HERMANN HAHN
3T9