DOI issue:
No. 199 (October, 1909)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0084
Studio- Talk
in two continents, Europe
and America, for his field
of work has been a wide
one. A Hungarian by
birth, he studied in Paris,
where he passed sixteen
years before he came to
settle in Vienna. Before
coming here he travelled
in the East, where he
painted genre pictures
with some success, while
in Germany he spent some
time in various towns de-
voting himself to genre
works and portraiture.
Since he settled here,
some fifteen years ago, he
has paid long and frequent
visits to different parts of
America. Though Fer-
raris has painted many
notable men, it was as a
painter of female portraits
that he first became
known. He has a singular
facility in depicting not
only the features of his
lady sitters, but also all
those accessories of dress
and ornament which go
to complete a woman's
personality. Ferraris has
PORTRAIT OF MADAME DE F. BY A. VON FERRARIS . ,
painted two portraits of
the Emperor Francis
She is a native of Dalmatia and only at the begin- Joseph. His portrait of Jokai hangs in the National
ning of her career, for though from her earliest in- Gallery at Budapest, and he has also painted the
fancy she loved nothing so much as to draw and German Emperor's portrait no fewer than seven
paint, any talent in this direction was ignored, and times. Many notable personages in other lands
it was not till she was seventeen—she is now twenty have given him sittings, including the King and
—that she began to study drawing seriously. For- Queen of Roumania, the Crown Princess of
tunately, her teacher, Professor Concic-Czikes, at Roumania and her children, and in America,
once recognised her talent and persuaded her to Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Carl Schurz. A. S. L.
come to Vienna, where she entered the classes of
Professors Michalek and Tichy at the Malschule | "V UDAPEST.— It was at the Nemzeti
fur Frauen und Madchen. Some of her caricatures I J? Salon in this city that Arthur Halmi
have been acquired for the Albertina Collection, and I p first gave his countrymen the oppor-
her work has been well received by critics and * ^ tunity of seeing his collective work,
public. She does not, however, intend devoting For he is a Hungarian by birth, and a native of
herself entirely or chiefly to the humorous side of Budapest, where he first studied and gained the
art; she prefers its earnest side, and so is going to Vienna prize. Later he went to Munich, and then
study in Rome and will then proceed to Paris. to Paris, where he studied under Munkacsy, and
-- painted genre pictures, one of which is now in the
The name of Arthur von Ferraris is well known National Museum, Budapest. The general good
62
in two continents, Europe
and America, for his field
of work has been a wide
one. A Hungarian by
birth, he studied in Paris,
where he passed sixteen
years before he came to
settle in Vienna. Before
coming here he travelled
in the East, where he
painted genre pictures
with some success, while
in Germany he spent some
time in various towns de-
voting himself to genre
works and portraiture.
Since he settled here,
some fifteen years ago, he
has paid long and frequent
visits to different parts of
America. Though Fer-
raris has painted many
notable men, it was as a
painter of female portraits
that he first became
known. He has a singular
facility in depicting not
only the features of his
lady sitters, but also all
those accessories of dress
and ornament which go
to complete a woman's
personality. Ferraris has
PORTRAIT OF MADAME DE F. BY A. VON FERRARIS . ,
painted two portraits of
the Emperor Francis
She is a native of Dalmatia and only at the begin- Joseph. His portrait of Jokai hangs in the National
ning of her career, for though from her earliest in- Gallery at Budapest, and he has also painted the
fancy she loved nothing so much as to draw and German Emperor's portrait no fewer than seven
paint, any talent in this direction was ignored, and times. Many notable personages in other lands
it was not till she was seventeen—she is now twenty have given him sittings, including the King and
—that she began to study drawing seriously. For- Queen of Roumania, the Crown Princess of
tunately, her teacher, Professor Concic-Czikes, at Roumania and her children, and in America,
once recognised her talent and persuaded her to Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Carl Schurz. A. S. L.
come to Vienna, where she entered the classes of
Professors Michalek and Tichy at the Malschule | "V UDAPEST.— It was at the Nemzeti
fur Frauen und Madchen. Some of her caricatures I J? Salon in this city that Arthur Halmi
have been acquired for the Albertina Collection, and I p first gave his countrymen the oppor-
her work has been well received by critics and * ^ tunity of seeing his collective work,
public. She does not, however, intend devoting For he is a Hungarian by birth, and a native of
herself entirely or chiefly to the humorous side of Budapest, where he first studied and gained the
art; she prefers its earnest side, and so is going to Vienna prize. Later he went to Munich, and then
study in Rome and will then proceed to Paris. to Paris, where he studied under Munkacsy, and
-- painted genre pictures, one of which is now in the
The name of Arthur von Ferraris is well known National Museum, Budapest. The general good
62