DOI Heft:
No. 200 (November, 200)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0183
Studio- Talk
Etienne Boeskay. Bas-reliefs and inscriptions flanking the steps, will be devoted to the memory
will accompany these statues, and the dominant of Luther, Zwingli, Valdo, Wyclif, and Huss.
device of the monument will be that of the city R. M.
arms, Post Tenebras Lux. The large armorial
bearings to be let into the pavement in front of "■""V ERLIN.—Many readers of The Studio
the monument and to be executed in mosaic, will will be pleased to see the accompanying
represent the arms of Geneva, flanked on one side j reproduction of Mr. Laszld's portrait of
by those of Berne and on the other by those of ^ ^ the Princess Louise Victoria. Having
Scotland. _ in a quite recent issue seen the artist's portrait of
the Kaiser they will not need to be told that the
The monument will be united to the Promenade princess is His Majesty's daughter ; so close is the
des Bastions by a slightly levelled approach, thus resemblance here that the portrait may indeed be
throwing into greater relief the central motif and said to be a "speaking" likeness,
the whole facade of the wall, 100 metres in length.
Ornamental water, exactly in the place where the At Gurlitt's Salon we have had memorial exhi-
dykes of the ancient fortifications of the city were bitions of the work of two illustrators, Rudolf
situated, will give perspective and protection to Wilke and F. von Reznicek. In Wilke, Germany
the monument. The blocks of carved stone has lost one of her most original draughtsmen,
a satirist who dealt his
blows very directly and
always convinced one of
their justice. He found
no difficulty in pinning
down sacrifices from high,
middle or low life, as he
was a real genius of the
pencil, had studied reality
thoroughly, and was
abundant in wit. The
suavity of F. von Rez-
nicek's line occasionally
borders on languor, but
it is the appropriate
medium for his subjects
from fashionable life.
Another fortunate
attempt in the reforma-
tion of good taste has
been made by the Union
of Industrials, in conjunc-
tion with the authorities
of arts and crafts, who
arranged a great shop-
window competition
which fairly overcrowded
the streets. After busy
endeavours for the im-
provement of interior con-
cerns it is only logical
that the external appear-
ance of the German
, , capital should be sub-
PORTRAIT OF H.I.H. PRINCESS LOUISE VICTORIA BY P. A. LASZLO _ r
{By permission of the Berlin Photographic Co., owners o+the copyright) jected to reforms. The
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Etienne Boeskay. Bas-reliefs and inscriptions flanking the steps, will be devoted to the memory
will accompany these statues, and the dominant of Luther, Zwingli, Valdo, Wyclif, and Huss.
device of the monument will be that of the city R. M.
arms, Post Tenebras Lux. The large armorial
bearings to be let into the pavement in front of "■""V ERLIN.—Many readers of The Studio
the monument and to be executed in mosaic, will will be pleased to see the accompanying
represent the arms of Geneva, flanked on one side j reproduction of Mr. Laszld's portrait of
by those of Berne and on the other by those of ^ ^ the Princess Louise Victoria. Having
Scotland. _ in a quite recent issue seen the artist's portrait of
the Kaiser they will not need to be told that the
The monument will be united to the Promenade princess is His Majesty's daughter ; so close is the
des Bastions by a slightly levelled approach, thus resemblance here that the portrait may indeed be
throwing into greater relief the central motif and said to be a "speaking" likeness,
the whole facade of the wall, 100 metres in length.
Ornamental water, exactly in the place where the At Gurlitt's Salon we have had memorial exhi-
dykes of the ancient fortifications of the city were bitions of the work of two illustrators, Rudolf
situated, will give perspective and protection to Wilke and F. von Reznicek. In Wilke, Germany
the monument. The blocks of carved stone has lost one of her most original draughtsmen,
a satirist who dealt his
blows very directly and
always convinced one of
their justice. He found
no difficulty in pinning
down sacrifices from high,
middle or low life, as he
was a real genius of the
pencil, had studied reality
thoroughly, and was
abundant in wit. The
suavity of F. von Rez-
nicek's line occasionally
borders on languor, but
it is the appropriate
medium for his subjects
from fashionable life.
Another fortunate
attempt in the reforma-
tion of good taste has
been made by the Union
of Industrials, in conjunc-
tion with the authorities
of arts and crafts, who
arranged a great shop-
window competition
which fairly overcrowded
the streets. After busy
endeavours for the im-
provement of interior con-
cerns it is only logical
that the external appear-
ance of the German
, , capital should be sub-
PORTRAIT OF H.I.H. PRINCESS LOUISE VICTORIA BY P. A. LASZLO _ r
{By permission of the Berlin Photographic Co., owners o+the copyright) jected to reforms. The
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