DOI Heft:
No. 202 (January, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Glaser, M.: Ferdinand Engelmüller's Bohemian landscapes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0318
Ferdinand EngelmuUer
the purpose of eliciting the approbation of the credit of being an independent worker, following
"man in the street"; but on the other hand there his own bent.
is, both in his vision and his manner of setting EngelmuUer began his artistic career as a pupil
down his observations, something very homely and of the well-known landscape painter, Marak of
unaffected. In depicting a tree, for instance, his Prague; he followed up his training under that artist
method is not that of laying on the colour in thick, by a course of study in Munich, and later, in his
heavy bold strokes. Wholly uninfluenced by the maturer years, he has spent some time in Italy,
modern French school, he is cautious and de- gathering ideas and devoting himself with un-
liberate in his method of work; many preliminary flagging energy to the attainment of technical
sketches are made, and only when the struc- proficiency. Among his latest achievements, those
ture of the tree has been completely mastered by which have been inspired by his travels in Italy
close and continued observation is the brush, deserve mention. In such subjects as Fiesole and
chalk or crayon taken in hand and the final stages Monte Pincio the beneficial results of the inspira-
entered upon. Thus it comes about that so far tion are conspicuous in the execution, and the
as draughtsmanship is concerned his work is architectural details which figure as accessories in
altogether free from fault—he is far too con" the composition are successfully handled,
scientious, too honest to fail in this respect. In Equally at home in the use of oil and pastel for
colour and composition his work is never dis- his landscape work, EngelmuUer has a special
concerting. It would be difficult to assign affection for the latter medium, and it is in this
him a place among the adherents of any master that most of the works now reproduced have been
or school, but rather one must give him the executed. A notice of the artist's career, how-
' A SUMMER DAY" BY FERDINAND ENGELMULLER
296
the purpose of eliciting the approbation of the credit of being an independent worker, following
"man in the street"; but on the other hand there his own bent.
is, both in his vision and his manner of setting EngelmuUer began his artistic career as a pupil
down his observations, something very homely and of the well-known landscape painter, Marak of
unaffected. In depicting a tree, for instance, his Prague; he followed up his training under that artist
method is not that of laying on the colour in thick, by a course of study in Munich, and later, in his
heavy bold strokes. Wholly uninfluenced by the maturer years, he has spent some time in Italy,
modern French school, he is cautious and de- gathering ideas and devoting himself with un-
liberate in his method of work; many preliminary flagging energy to the attainment of technical
sketches are made, and only when the struc- proficiency. Among his latest achievements, those
ture of the tree has been completely mastered by which have been inspired by his travels in Italy
close and continued observation is the brush, deserve mention. In such subjects as Fiesole and
chalk or crayon taken in hand and the final stages Monte Pincio the beneficial results of the inspira-
entered upon. Thus it comes about that so far tion are conspicuous in the execution, and the
as draughtsmanship is concerned his work is architectural details which figure as accessories in
altogether free from fault—he is far too con" the composition are successfully handled,
scientious, too honest to fail in this respect. In Equally at home in the use of oil and pastel for
colour and composition his work is never dis- his landscape work, EngelmuUer has a special
concerting. It would be difficult to assign affection for the latter medium, and it is in this
him a place among the adherents of any master that most of the works now reproduced have been
or school, but rather one must give him the executed. A notice of the artist's career, how-
' A SUMMER DAY" BY FERDINAND ENGELMULLER
296