Studio: international art (49.1910)

Studio- Talk

the aged Prof. John Borjeson, was the
author of many of our best statues, first
and foremost among them being the ex-
cellent equestrian statue of Charles X.
at Malmo. Until quite recently an ener-
getic agitation has been carried on to get
a replica of this beautiful work erected
in Stockholm in front of the Northern
Museum, but the Stockholmians have
been obliged to yield to the wishes of the
people of Malmo, who want to keep this
really great work of art to themselves.

PORCELAIN FIGURE BY KNUD KYHN

(Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Maoris)

Though the young Borjesons are not

PORCELAIN FIGURE BY AXEL LOCKER

[Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Works)

by any means up to their father’s standard,
the son shows real talent in some paintings of
interiors from his parents’ home. Especially good
is a picture called The Corner-Sofa, a group
of three young girls, two of whom are sewing
while the other is reading aloud to them. The
movements of the hands of the sewing girls are
excellently rendered. Painted with a strong plastic
feeling is the portrait of the artist’s father, medita-
ting in an easy-chair in a natural and characteristic
pose. The colour in this portrait, as in many of
G. Borjeson’s works, is a little raw. Of Miss
Borjeson’s sculpture I can only say that her smaller
works—inkstands and so forth—are the best.

Helmer Osslund has chiefly devoted himself to
painting the scenery of the province of Anger-
manland, in North Sweden. He succeeds well in
rendering the grand but somewhat unyielding
character of his native place. The typical Swedish
small red cottages standing out against the clear
blue sky and the glittering white snow-clad hills
make a very sympathetic picture, at least to the
Swedish eye. Osslund consequently has had the
pleasure, so rare for a young artist, of seeing most
of his things sold at his maiden exhibition.

PORCELAIN FIGURE BY CHRISTIAN THOMSEN

[Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Works)

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