Studio: international art (51.1911)

Studio-Talk

“ BOYS BATHING.” GRANITE RELIEFjVoR A FOUNTAIN AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, OSTERMALM, STOCKHOLM

BY CARL J. ELDH

L. Dupuis, all contributed largely to the success of
the Belgian section of the Salon, and in concluding
our survey of it we would draw attention to the
work of two young men—namely, M. de Smeth, a
pupil of Devreese, who showed a Jeune Nantaise,
and M. P. Wissaert, a pupil of Van der Stappen,
who exhibited his charming plaquette V Enseigne-
ment, of most remarkable cleverness of composition,
elegance of design, and showing special knowledge
of the art of modelling in bas relief, also the
plaquette destined to commemorate the voyage of
the then Prince Albert to the Congo, and a large
medal of the artist’s parents. F. K.

STOCKHOLM.—In my last “ Studio-Talk ”
I spoke of a beautiful decorative land-
scape painting, given by the artist-prince
Eugen of Sweden to a new school in
Stockholm. This school, “ Hogre reallaroverket a
Ostermalm,” in itself a real work of art by the
architect Ragnar Ostberg, has since then received
a new gift from the generous prince—a mural
painting by the young artist, Axel Torneman (born
1880). This artist has, until now, been chiefly

Known as a painter of the gay night-life of Paris
and as a cartoonist for one of Stockholm’s comic
papers. In this large wall painting, called The
God Tor Fights the Giants, he shows a good deco-
rative talent. The painting is executed somewhat

“ BOYS RUNNING A RACE ” : GRANITE RELIEF, HIGH
SCHOOL, OSTERMALM. BY CARL J. ELDH

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