DOI Heft:
Nr. 214 (January 1911)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20971#0354
Studio-Talk
“an April evening on the senne” (Hagenbund, Vienna)
BY ANSHELM SCHULTZBERG
BUDAPEST. — Among the Hungarian
artists of distinction Professor Robert
Nadler, of the Royal Hungarian College
of Art, certainly deserves a place. He
began his career as a designer of architectural
subjects and to this day teaches applied art, his
class being justly esteemed for the beautiful deco-
rative leather work executed in the Batik manner
by the pupils. Only at a later period did Prof.
Nadler take up painting. He has never specialised
in any one branch of art, as he considers that an
artist should be perfectly free and carry out his
inspirations without reference to the thoughts of
others. Schindler, under whom he studied for
about eighteen months in Vienna—practically all
the instruction he ever had—inspired him with a
love of nature at a time when nature was mostly
ignored. Attracted to the Austrian Alps, the valleys
of Tyrol and the lovely Salzkammergut, these
regions of indescribable loveliness appealed strongly
to his sensitive nature. Then a desire to witness
something of Oriental life led him further afield—to
Egypt, to Tunis, to Bosnia and to Dalmatia. A
series of paintings was the result of his journeyings,
one of which, A Street in Travnik, is reproduced on
p. 335. This picture, besides its fine atmospheric
qualities, shows that the artist is an excellent
draughtsman, and that his early training in
architecture has proved of service when handling
such motifs. The same accuracy of drawing is to
be seen in Porto Place, Ragusa, also reproduced.
This fine old fortress, built on precipitous rocks,
dominates Ragusa, and is here depicted under the
rays of the setting sun. Prof. Nadler has painted
some interesting seascapes and has also met with
some success as a portraitist, but it is perhaps as a
landscapist that he is at his best. Since his ap-
pointment to the College of Art he has made a
special study of Hungarian landscape and of the
Hungarian peasants. This is an interesting field of
work, for many of the villages remain practically as
they have been for generations. Prof. Nadler is
President of the Hungarian Water-colour Society,
an Honorary Member of the Art Teachers’ Guild in
London, and President of the Exhibition Committee
of the Royal Hungarian Society. A. S. L.
333
“an April evening on the senne” (Hagenbund, Vienna)
BY ANSHELM SCHULTZBERG
BUDAPEST. — Among the Hungarian
artists of distinction Professor Robert
Nadler, of the Royal Hungarian College
of Art, certainly deserves a place. He
began his career as a designer of architectural
subjects and to this day teaches applied art, his
class being justly esteemed for the beautiful deco-
rative leather work executed in the Batik manner
by the pupils. Only at a later period did Prof.
Nadler take up painting. He has never specialised
in any one branch of art, as he considers that an
artist should be perfectly free and carry out his
inspirations without reference to the thoughts of
others. Schindler, under whom he studied for
about eighteen months in Vienna—practically all
the instruction he ever had—inspired him with a
love of nature at a time when nature was mostly
ignored. Attracted to the Austrian Alps, the valleys
of Tyrol and the lovely Salzkammergut, these
regions of indescribable loveliness appealed strongly
to his sensitive nature. Then a desire to witness
something of Oriental life led him further afield—to
Egypt, to Tunis, to Bosnia and to Dalmatia. A
series of paintings was the result of his journeyings,
one of which, A Street in Travnik, is reproduced on
p. 335. This picture, besides its fine atmospheric
qualities, shows that the artist is an excellent
draughtsman, and that his early training in
architecture has proved of service when handling
such motifs. The same accuracy of drawing is to
be seen in Porto Place, Ragusa, also reproduced.
This fine old fortress, built on precipitous rocks,
dominates Ragusa, and is here depicted under the
rays of the setting sun. Prof. Nadler has painted
some interesting seascapes and has also met with
some success as a portraitist, but it is perhaps as a
landscapist that he is at his best. Since his ap-
pointment to the College of Art he has made a
special study of Hungarian landscape and of the
Hungarian peasants. This is an interesting field of
work, for many of the villages remain practically as
they have been for generations. Prof. Nadler is
President of the Hungarian Water-colour Society,
an Honorary Member of the Art Teachers’ Guild in
London, and President of the Exhibition Committee
of the Royal Hungarian Society. A. S. L.
333