DOI Heft:
No. 198 (September, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
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Studio-Talk
or are entrusted to the medal factories,
in which art receives much less than her
due. It is therefore very gratifying to find
that generous support and encouragement
for the medallist is forthcoming from a
private individual, a man possessed of a
keen sympathy for art and who has
spared no efforts to induce German sculp-
tors to interest themselves in medal work,
who has liberally supported their achieve-
ments and secured for them an increasing
patronage among the public. This gentle-
man is Herr Georg Hitl, formerly pro-
Much as this is to be deplored (especially in the prietor of a Bavarian Minting establishment,
interests of the creative artist), it is equally difficult -
to see how any improvement can be brought It is from the series of medals and plaquettes
about. In Germany the erroneous belief is still published by Herr Hitl that the accompanying
MEDAL “ST. GEORGE”
BY MAX DASIO
widely entertained that for the
purposes of portraiture the
medal is proper only to
crowned heads, generals, and
other great men ; there is no
recognition of the fact that in
point of worth it is equal to
the painted portrait and at
the same time is far more
enduring; least of all has it
dawned upon the German
people at large, how incom-
parably more valuable a medal
or a plaquette must be as a
record to hand down to
posterity than a photograph,
MEDAL “CHRISTMAS”
BY GEORG ROMER
illustrations have been se-
lected. To discuss in detail
all the works of this character
which have made their appear-
ance under his auspices would
carry us too far, and these
few examples must suffice to
show the broad eclecticism
which animates this generous
patron of the medallic art.
Besides the artists represented
in these reproductions, his
collection comprises works
by various other men promi-
nent in modern German art,
such as Ludwig Habich,
which soon becomes faded, and never perhaps had Josef Kowarzik, Theodor von Gosen, Benno
any artistic merit. Such being the condition of Elkan, Georg Wrba, Paul Sturm, C. Starck and
things the artist who has devoted himself to this others. Prof. Rudolf Bosselt of Diisseldorf, besides
class of work
has found him-
self making
perpetual sac-
rifices and
rarely reaping
any compensa-
tion in return
from the pub-
lic ; for such
few commis-
sions as are
given by the
State and other
public bodies
nearly always
fall into un-
worthy hands Jewish marriage medal
320
BY H. WADERE
or are entrusted to the medal factories,
in which art receives much less than her
due. It is therefore very gratifying to find
that generous support and encouragement
for the medallist is forthcoming from a
private individual, a man possessed of a
keen sympathy for art and who has
spared no efforts to induce German sculp-
tors to interest themselves in medal work,
who has liberally supported their achieve-
ments and secured for them an increasing
patronage among the public. This gentle-
man is Herr Georg Hitl, formerly pro-
Much as this is to be deplored (especially in the prietor of a Bavarian Minting establishment,
interests of the creative artist), it is equally difficult -
to see how any improvement can be brought It is from the series of medals and plaquettes
about. In Germany the erroneous belief is still published by Herr Hitl that the accompanying
MEDAL “ST. GEORGE”
BY MAX DASIO
widely entertained that for the
purposes of portraiture the
medal is proper only to
crowned heads, generals, and
other great men ; there is no
recognition of the fact that in
point of worth it is equal to
the painted portrait and at
the same time is far more
enduring; least of all has it
dawned upon the German
people at large, how incom-
parably more valuable a medal
or a plaquette must be as a
record to hand down to
posterity than a photograph,
MEDAL “CHRISTMAS”
BY GEORG ROMER
illustrations have been se-
lected. To discuss in detail
all the works of this character
which have made their appear-
ance under his auspices would
carry us too far, and these
few examples must suffice to
show the broad eclecticism
which animates this generous
patron of the medallic art.
Besides the artists represented
in these reproductions, his
collection comprises works
by various other men promi-
nent in modern German art,
such as Ludwig Habich,
which soon becomes faded, and never perhaps had Josef Kowarzik, Theodor von Gosen, Benno
any artistic merit. Such being the condition of Elkan, Georg Wrba, Paul Sturm, C. Starck and
things the artist who has devoted himself to this others. Prof. Rudolf Bosselt of Diisseldorf, besides
class of work
has found him-
self making
perpetual sac-
rifices and
rarely reaping
any compensa-
tion in return
from the pub-
lic ; for such
few commis-
sions as are
given by the
State and other
public bodies
nearly always
fall into un-
worthy hands Jewish marriage medal
320
BY H. WADERE