DOI Heft:
No. 215 (February, 1911)
DOI Artikel:West, W. K.: Some examples of recent work by Mr. Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A.
DOI Artikel:Benoit-Lévy, Georges: A Swedish sculptor: Carl J. Eldh
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20972#0047
A Swedish Sculptor, Carl J. Eldh
PORTRAIT OF CARL J. ELDH FROM A PHOTOGRAPH
All these examples of Mr. Brangwyn's recent
production give the fullest evidence of that matur-
ing of his powers which promises to make his
achievement even more remarkable in the future
than it has been in the past. After years of
independent practice devoted to the development
of his rarely vigorous personality and to the
training of his unusually acute perception of
artistic refinements, he has acquired so sure a
control over himself that he can follow without
misgiving the promptings of his own temperament;
and he has learned, too, with a certainty that few
men are able to reach, what he can do with the
materials of his craft and how they can be applied
to best advantage in the realisation of his mental
intentions. With mind and hand in perfect
harmony, with aesthetic instincts of the sanest and
most wholesome type, and above all with the
courage to stand alone in the art world and to
be true to himself, he has and holds among our
modern masters a place which no other artist can
claim to share. \V. K. WEST.
MM. Le Nain (Belgium) and Erik Lindberg
(Sweden) have been elected corresponding members
in the Engraving Section of the Academie des
Beaux-Arts, Paris, in place of Sir F. Seymour I laden
and Mr. R. W. Macbeth. R.A., deceased.
SWEDISH SCULPTOR; CARL
J. ELDH. BY GEORGES
BENO IT-LEVY.
Few countries can rival Sweden in the beauty
and in the variety of her artistic productions;
but where her artists surpass even themselves is
when they borrow their inspiration from their own
national characteristics and from the very soil of
their fatherland. With Ernst Josephson and Carl
Larsson remains the honour of having been the
first to desire to affirm their Swedish nationality,
and with Richard Berg * of having been the bard
of the new pleiades. It is unnecessary to remind
the reader that among the members of that
artistic revolution which started in 1885 we find
* " Ce qu'a etu notre Iutte." By Richard Berg. Stock-
holm, 1905.
SKETCH MODEL FOR A STATUE TO THE SWEDISH
POET G. WENNF.RBERG. BY CARL J. ELDH
25
PORTRAIT OF CARL J. ELDH FROM A PHOTOGRAPH
All these examples of Mr. Brangwyn's recent
production give the fullest evidence of that matur-
ing of his powers which promises to make his
achievement even more remarkable in the future
than it has been in the past. After years of
independent practice devoted to the development
of his rarely vigorous personality and to the
training of his unusually acute perception of
artistic refinements, he has acquired so sure a
control over himself that he can follow without
misgiving the promptings of his own temperament;
and he has learned, too, with a certainty that few
men are able to reach, what he can do with the
materials of his craft and how they can be applied
to best advantage in the realisation of his mental
intentions. With mind and hand in perfect
harmony, with aesthetic instincts of the sanest and
most wholesome type, and above all with the
courage to stand alone in the art world and to
be true to himself, he has and holds among our
modern masters a place which no other artist can
claim to share. \V. K. WEST.
MM. Le Nain (Belgium) and Erik Lindberg
(Sweden) have been elected corresponding members
in the Engraving Section of the Academie des
Beaux-Arts, Paris, in place of Sir F. Seymour I laden
and Mr. R. W. Macbeth. R.A., deceased.
SWEDISH SCULPTOR; CARL
J. ELDH. BY GEORGES
BENO IT-LEVY.
Few countries can rival Sweden in the beauty
and in the variety of her artistic productions;
but where her artists surpass even themselves is
when they borrow their inspiration from their own
national characteristics and from the very soil of
their fatherland. With Ernst Josephson and Carl
Larsson remains the honour of having been the
first to desire to affirm their Swedish nationality,
and with Richard Berg * of having been the bard
of the new pleiades. It is unnecessary to remind
the reader that among the members of that
artistic revolution which started in 1885 we find
* " Ce qu'a etu notre Iutte." By Richard Berg. Stock-
holm, 1905.
SKETCH MODEL FOR A STATUE TO THE SWEDISH
POET G. WENNF.RBERG. BY CARL J. ELDH
25