DOI Heft:
No. 206 (May, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20969#0345
Studio-Talk
directing spirit. His solemn perpendicular style
is stamped upon the entrance-hall, in which brownish
marbles cover walls and floor. The timber-work
of the ceiling is kept in black-and-gold, and only
significant symbols or antique motifs occur in the
ornamentation; but in an establishment where all
sorts of rarities, ancient and modern, are brought to-
gether, such a style could not possibly be maintained
throughout, and the various interiors have there-
fore been treated according to their contents. A
square hall, in olive outfit and lighted from the
ceiling, is destined for exhibiting pictures and
sculpture. All the rooms on the entire first storey
are decorated in one or other historical style.
The second storey contains modern interiors, and
good taste has directed all the dispositions.
Eccentricities are strictly avoided and the prin-
ciples of soundness and reserve carried out every-
where. The contributors include craftsmen like
Peter Behrens, Albin Muller, Billing, Grenander
and Mohring, whose names in themselves form a
programme. Professor
Behrens’ Empire salon is
of great distinction. He
has contrived as wall-
decoration large parti-
tions, covered with a
woven material, each of
which contains a massive
wreath as central piece
corresponding to circles
in the ceiling. This sat-
isfies the geometrical bent
of the artist, but does not
leave the slightest space
for a picture. Professor
Muller is Viennese when
he covers the whole wall-
space in his dining-room
with white lacquered
wood with black lac-
quered wood borders, and
one beautiful piece of
hand-woven tapestry after
his own design by way of
additional decoration.
The third storey of the
building is to contain the
equipment for a modern
country house. The pic-
ture-gallery on the ground-
floor affords a kind of
general survey of present-
day art production.
32°
Jaques Casper has opened a second art salon
in the west end of Berlin, and his carefully selected
paintings here certainly show to greater advantage.
He has organised a one-man show for Friedrich
Stahl, the remarkable re-animator of early Floren-
tine Renaissance, and F. Apol, the distinguished
Belgian landscapist.
VIENNA.—Rudolf Kalvach, two of whose
wood-engravings are here re-produced,
studied under Professors Roller and
Czeschka at the Imperial Arts and
Crafts Schools, where, it is needless to say, his
training was an efficient one. His earlier years,
and in later life his holidays, were spent at Trieste,
where the wharves, the docks and the harbour were
a continual source of attraction to him, so much
so indeed that he passed every available moment
studying the ships and the busy life and
commotion at the port. Here was his centre of
interest, and he early began to make studies for a
directing spirit. His solemn perpendicular style
is stamped upon the entrance-hall, in which brownish
marbles cover walls and floor. The timber-work
of the ceiling is kept in black-and-gold, and only
significant symbols or antique motifs occur in the
ornamentation; but in an establishment where all
sorts of rarities, ancient and modern, are brought to-
gether, such a style could not possibly be maintained
throughout, and the various interiors have there-
fore been treated according to their contents. A
square hall, in olive outfit and lighted from the
ceiling, is destined for exhibiting pictures and
sculpture. All the rooms on the entire first storey
are decorated in one or other historical style.
The second storey contains modern interiors, and
good taste has directed all the dispositions.
Eccentricities are strictly avoided and the prin-
ciples of soundness and reserve carried out every-
where. The contributors include craftsmen like
Peter Behrens, Albin Muller, Billing, Grenander
and Mohring, whose names in themselves form a
programme. Professor
Behrens’ Empire salon is
of great distinction. He
has contrived as wall-
decoration large parti-
tions, covered with a
woven material, each of
which contains a massive
wreath as central piece
corresponding to circles
in the ceiling. This sat-
isfies the geometrical bent
of the artist, but does not
leave the slightest space
for a picture. Professor
Muller is Viennese when
he covers the whole wall-
space in his dining-room
with white lacquered
wood with black lac-
quered wood borders, and
one beautiful piece of
hand-woven tapestry after
his own design by way of
additional decoration.
The third storey of the
building is to contain the
equipment for a modern
country house. The pic-
ture-gallery on the ground-
floor affords a kind of
general survey of present-
day art production.
32°
Jaques Casper has opened a second art salon
in the west end of Berlin, and his carefully selected
paintings here certainly show to greater advantage.
He has organised a one-man show for Friedrich
Stahl, the remarkable re-animator of early Floren-
tine Renaissance, and F. Apol, the distinguished
Belgian landscapist.
VIENNA.—Rudolf Kalvach, two of whose
wood-engravings are here re-produced,
studied under Professors Roller and
Czeschka at the Imperial Arts and
Crafts Schools, where, it is needless to say, his
training was an efficient one. His earlier years,
and in later life his holidays, were spent at Trieste,
where the wharves, the docks and the harbour were
a continual source of attraction to him, so much
so indeed that he passed every available moment
studying the ships and the busy life and
commotion at the port. Here was his centre of
interest, and he early began to make studies for a