DOI Heft:
No. 202 (January, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0347
Studio-Talk
charmed me by the grandeur of their conception "¥ 7TENNA.—Every year brings new develop-
and by the fine quality of the work. M. Le Meilleur % / ments in the domain of toys, for
has a very personal appreciation for the picturesque, \f many artists of note are turning their
and his Chaumiere aux Andelys, and his scenes in ' thoughts in this direction. The move-
Rouen, proclaim him in a certain degree a disciple ment is particularly lively in Vienna and other
of Hervier. But a few months ago I bestowed the Austrian towns, and may lead to interesting develop-
greatest praise upon Marc Henri Meunier. This ments, for the Austrian Government through one of
excellent young Belgian etcher remains still its departments is making an experiment at Horitz, a
worthy of his illustrious name. Here also I saw small town in Bohemia, where toys designed by artists
excellent sketches of Paris streets by M. Renefer ; are now being made, thus creating a new industry,
portraits by M. Toupey; landscapes by M. Waid- These artists, who have formed themselves into an
mann and M. Zoir ; pictures of seaports by M. de association, give just the same earnest thought to the
Hanzen ; of Norman buildings by M. Hillekamp ; smallest detail in the toys as they do to larger works
while as to M. Francois Simon, one can only' of art. How much life and movement Professor
say that every day he shows more astounding Barwig, the well-known wood sculptor, has put into
virtuosity. _ , the herd of sheep and other toys here reproduced!
How quaint, too, are Professor Schufinsky's paper
Auguste Lepere is one of those artists who never kites ! What boy would not be delighted with them ?
rest. He has hardly left his work in Paris before And yet they have true artistic value. He has a
he sets up his easel in the country—in the copses score of boys and girls attending his voluntary class
of La Vendee—and to delight our eyes he has just at Znaim, a small town in Moravia, and they are
shown chez Sagot the fruits of his summer's toil, in learning the art of toy-making, theory and practice
which work we find this artist at his very best. H. F. going hand-in-hand. Fraulein Podhajska and Frau
TOYS CARVED IN WOOD DESIGNED BY PROF. FRANZ BARWIG
EXECUTED BY THE GENOSSENSCHAFT DER SPIELWARENERZEUGER AT HORITZ, BOHEMIA
324
charmed me by the grandeur of their conception "¥ 7TENNA.—Every year brings new develop-
and by the fine quality of the work. M. Le Meilleur % / ments in the domain of toys, for
has a very personal appreciation for the picturesque, \f many artists of note are turning their
and his Chaumiere aux Andelys, and his scenes in ' thoughts in this direction. The move-
Rouen, proclaim him in a certain degree a disciple ment is particularly lively in Vienna and other
of Hervier. But a few months ago I bestowed the Austrian towns, and may lead to interesting develop-
greatest praise upon Marc Henri Meunier. This ments, for the Austrian Government through one of
excellent young Belgian etcher remains still its departments is making an experiment at Horitz, a
worthy of his illustrious name. Here also I saw small town in Bohemia, where toys designed by artists
excellent sketches of Paris streets by M. Renefer ; are now being made, thus creating a new industry,
portraits by M. Toupey; landscapes by M. Waid- These artists, who have formed themselves into an
mann and M. Zoir ; pictures of seaports by M. de association, give just the same earnest thought to the
Hanzen ; of Norman buildings by M. Hillekamp ; smallest detail in the toys as they do to larger works
while as to M. Francois Simon, one can only' of art. How much life and movement Professor
say that every day he shows more astounding Barwig, the well-known wood sculptor, has put into
virtuosity. _ , the herd of sheep and other toys here reproduced!
How quaint, too, are Professor Schufinsky's paper
Auguste Lepere is one of those artists who never kites ! What boy would not be delighted with them ?
rest. He has hardly left his work in Paris before And yet they have true artistic value. He has a
he sets up his easel in the country—in the copses score of boys and girls attending his voluntary class
of La Vendee—and to delight our eyes he has just at Znaim, a small town in Moravia, and they are
shown chez Sagot the fruits of his summer's toil, in learning the art of toy-making, theory and practice
which work we find this artist at his very best. H. F. going hand-in-hand. Fraulein Podhajska and Frau
TOYS CARVED IN WOOD DESIGNED BY PROF. FRANZ BARWIG
EXECUTED BY THE GENOSSENSCHAFT DER SPIELWARENERZEUGER AT HORITZ, BOHEMIA
324