DOI issue:
No. 199 (October, 1909)
DOI article:Art School notes
DOI article:Reviews and notices
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0104
Reviews and Notices
is endowed and maintained by the Government,
plays an important part, not only through the
thorough training it gives to all classes of workers
concerned in the production of glass ware, but
also by the aid it renders to manufacturers in
carrying out investigations of raw materials and
the testing of samples of manufactured articles.
The school is under the direction of Herr Heinrich
Strehblow, and he is assisted by a staff of twelve
professors and instructors and a number of
workshop assistants. The curriculum is both
theoretical and practical, and comprises both the
decorative and scientific aspects of glass manufac-
ture. No fees are charged to "Inlander," i.e.,
natives, but "Auslnnder" pay 100 kronen (about
^4) for the school year, half fees being charged
to " Hospitanten," or those who take up only
certain branches. On Sundays free classes are
available throughout the winter months for masters,
assistants, apprentices and others occupied during
the week.
REVIEWS AND NOTICES.
Selected Pictures by Joseph Israels, Lfon Lhermitle,
Matthew Maris and Henri Harpignies. (London :
Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Ltd.) ioj\ 6s. net.
(limited to 1,000 copies.)—During the past sum-
mer an exhibition of unusual interest was held at
the French Gallery, London, where Messrs. Wallis
& Son brought together a series of pictures by
Matthew Maris, Israels, Harpignies and Lhermitte.
The issue of a souvenir of this notable collection
was a happy idea, and the publication will be
welcomed not only by those who visited the ex-
hibition, but also by those less fortunate who were
unable to do so. The exhibition was particularly
noteworthy, owing to the fact that it included a
unique display of the art of Matthew Maris, whose
output has so far been extremely limited, and will,
in all probability, not be seriously increased. One
of the most remarkable and most interesting artists
the nineteenth century produced, Matthew Maris
is at last receiving due recognition as a master
amongst modern artists. Seventeen of the poet-
painter's most important works were shown at the
exhibition, and all are beautifully reproduced in
the volume—seven in photogravure. They include
the impressive Montmarire, the exquisite Prince
and Princess, the Enchanted Castle and Enchanted
Wood, so pregnant with mysticism, the charming
child-studies Butterflies and Enfant Couchee, the
fanciful Lady with Goats, and the less-known
Christening. With one or two exceptions all the
32
works by the master shown at the exhibition were
reproduced in the special number of The Studio
devoted to the Brothers Maris. In Messrs.
Wallis's volume Mr. Wedmore writes sympatheti-
cally of the art of Matthew Maris, while Mr. Lewis
Hind, Mr. E. F. Strange, and Mr. P. G. Konody
contribute short articles on the work of the other
three painters, whose pictures are also adequately
and admirably illustrated. The volume is one
which every lover of the higher forms of modern
art should seek to acquire.
Um 1800. Architektur und Handwe?-k im
letzten Jahrhundert ihrer traditionellen Entwicklung.
Herausgegeben von Paul Mebes Bd II.
(Munich: F. Bruckman & Co.) Cloth, 2oMks.—In
the first volume of this work, noticed in these pages
about a year ago, the style of architecture in vogue
a hundred years ago in Germany was exemplified
by a large number of illustrations of private resi-
dences and public buildings extant at the present
day; and now in this second and concluding volume
a further extensive selection is given, the buildings
illustrated being all private dwellings of various
dimensions, including many of the old " palaces "
still to be found in the large cities of Germany, and
various country mansions, together with an inte-
resting series of garden-houses, pavilions, lodges,
bridges, gateways, etc., a few interiors and some
specimens of furniture. In presenting these
examples of " architecture and handicraft" of a
period which corresponds to our Georgian period,
the characteristics of which are reflected therein,
the author's aim has been to show that the art of
building then reached the culminating point in its
evolution on traditional lines, later developments
having, according to Herr Mebes, no organic
relation to antecedent stages of evolution. Of
current taste as it affects domestic architecture
and household appurtenances generally he has a
very poor opinion, and he condemns it in un-
measured terms. In the course of his travels in
all parts of Germany in search of material for his
book he was struck by the almost universal
absence of that spirit of domesticity which has
always been considered a signal characteristic of
Germans of all classes—everywhere he came across
evidence of a degeneracy of taste in the choice of
things pertaining to home life, not only in the
dwellings of the well-to-do bourgeois class and
those of people in humbler circumstances, but
even in princely mansions. Such phenomena are
of course not confined to Germany, and to a large
extent they are the inevitable outcome of changed
economic conditions, but it should be borne in
is endowed and maintained by the Government,
plays an important part, not only through the
thorough training it gives to all classes of workers
concerned in the production of glass ware, but
also by the aid it renders to manufacturers in
carrying out investigations of raw materials and
the testing of samples of manufactured articles.
The school is under the direction of Herr Heinrich
Strehblow, and he is assisted by a staff of twelve
professors and instructors and a number of
workshop assistants. The curriculum is both
theoretical and practical, and comprises both the
decorative and scientific aspects of glass manufac-
ture. No fees are charged to "Inlander," i.e.,
natives, but "Auslnnder" pay 100 kronen (about
^4) for the school year, half fees being charged
to " Hospitanten," or those who take up only
certain branches. On Sundays free classes are
available throughout the winter months for masters,
assistants, apprentices and others occupied during
the week.
REVIEWS AND NOTICES.
Selected Pictures by Joseph Israels, Lfon Lhermitle,
Matthew Maris and Henri Harpignies. (London :
Simpkin, Marshall & Co. Ltd.) ioj\ 6s. net.
(limited to 1,000 copies.)—During the past sum-
mer an exhibition of unusual interest was held at
the French Gallery, London, where Messrs. Wallis
& Son brought together a series of pictures by
Matthew Maris, Israels, Harpignies and Lhermitte.
The issue of a souvenir of this notable collection
was a happy idea, and the publication will be
welcomed not only by those who visited the ex-
hibition, but also by those less fortunate who were
unable to do so. The exhibition was particularly
noteworthy, owing to the fact that it included a
unique display of the art of Matthew Maris, whose
output has so far been extremely limited, and will,
in all probability, not be seriously increased. One
of the most remarkable and most interesting artists
the nineteenth century produced, Matthew Maris
is at last receiving due recognition as a master
amongst modern artists. Seventeen of the poet-
painter's most important works were shown at the
exhibition, and all are beautifully reproduced in
the volume—seven in photogravure. They include
the impressive Montmarire, the exquisite Prince
and Princess, the Enchanted Castle and Enchanted
Wood, so pregnant with mysticism, the charming
child-studies Butterflies and Enfant Couchee, the
fanciful Lady with Goats, and the less-known
Christening. With one or two exceptions all the
32
works by the master shown at the exhibition were
reproduced in the special number of The Studio
devoted to the Brothers Maris. In Messrs.
Wallis's volume Mr. Wedmore writes sympatheti-
cally of the art of Matthew Maris, while Mr. Lewis
Hind, Mr. E. F. Strange, and Mr. P. G. Konody
contribute short articles on the work of the other
three painters, whose pictures are also adequately
and admirably illustrated. The volume is one
which every lover of the higher forms of modern
art should seek to acquire.
Um 1800. Architektur und Handwe?-k im
letzten Jahrhundert ihrer traditionellen Entwicklung.
Herausgegeben von Paul Mebes Bd II.
(Munich: F. Bruckman & Co.) Cloth, 2oMks.—In
the first volume of this work, noticed in these pages
about a year ago, the style of architecture in vogue
a hundred years ago in Germany was exemplified
by a large number of illustrations of private resi-
dences and public buildings extant at the present
day; and now in this second and concluding volume
a further extensive selection is given, the buildings
illustrated being all private dwellings of various
dimensions, including many of the old " palaces "
still to be found in the large cities of Germany, and
various country mansions, together with an inte-
resting series of garden-houses, pavilions, lodges,
bridges, gateways, etc., a few interiors and some
specimens of furniture. In presenting these
examples of " architecture and handicraft" of a
period which corresponds to our Georgian period,
the characteristics of which are reflected therein,
the author's aim has been to show that the art of
building then reached the culminating point in its
evolution on traditional lines, later developments
having, according to Herr Mebes, no organic
relation to antecedent stages of evolution. Of
current taste as it affects domestic architecture
and household appurtenances generally he has a
very poor opinion, and he condemns it in un-
measured terms. In the course of his travels in
all parts of Germany in search of material for his
book he was struck by the almost universal
absence of that spirit of domesticity which has
always been considered a signal characteristic of
Germans of all classes—everywhere he came across
evidence of a degeneracy of taste in the choice of
things pertaining to home life, not only in the
dwellings of the well-to-do bourgeois class and
those of people in humbler circumstances, but
even in princely mansions. Such phenomena are
of course not confined to Germany, and to a large
extent they are the inevitable outcome of changed
economic conditions, but it should be borne in