DOI Heft:
Nr. 219 (June 1911)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20973#0095
Studio-Talk
in several ot his important works the effect of that ever, is a span of nigh upon two decades, and yet the
democratic tendency which was so magnificently Valkyrie is endowed with all the favour, the energy,
expressed by his friend, C. Meunier. Van der the enthusiasm of his youth. This wild daughter of
Stappen was unquestionably the most prolific and Odin revels with exultant joy in the Sturm und
varied of all Belgian sculptors; ever interested in Gewitter (the German words flow all the more
new materials and new methods of work, astounding spontaneously from the pen as the Valkyrie,
us always by the prodigious activity of his imagina- perhaps, is as Teutonic as she is Norse) which
tion and his insatiable thirst for knowledge, he speeds her to the longed-for field of battle. As
undertook with the same enthusiasm, and almost she, heedless and fearless, tears along on her
always with equal success, the making of sculptures, snorting steed, she espies from afar the valorous
and works of plastic art the most diverse in hero, destined this day to bite the dust and as her
nature. He was also a remarkable teacher and set Einherja to ride with her to Valhalla, the golden hall
himself to reorganise art
teaching in his country and
to accord to the crafts and
to applied art generally their
due measure of value and
importance. Certain of
our most prominent sculp-
tors owe a great deal of
their success to him, in
common with Rousseau,
Rombaux, and P. Dubois.
F. K.
COPENHAGEN.
—Carl Martin
Hansen's three
statuettes repre-
senting Danish types, which
are reproduced on p.
76, carry on old traditions
of the Royal Danish Por-
celain Works and possess
no mean merit from an
artistic point of view, within
their narrow compass giving
much of what is charac-
teristic for the individual
models. The lines are
pleasing and self-con-
tained—a two-fold virtue
where the question is of
such a fragile medium as
porcelain.
Stephan Sinding's Vai-
kyrit shares it I mistake
not, In the sculptor's mind
the premier place amongst
his works with his To
J\^cjinesk&r Between the
" le devouement : portion op the "monument de l infinie bonte'
latter and the former, how- by chari.es van der stappej--
75
in several ot his important works the effect of that ever, is a span of nigh upon two decades, and yet the
democratic tendency which was so magnificently Valkyrie is endowed with all the favour, the energy,
expressed by his friend, C. Meunier. Van der the enthusiasm of his youth. This wild daughter of
Stappen was unquestionably the most prolific and Odin revels with exultant joy in the Sturm und
varied of all Belgian sculptors; ever interested in Gewitter (the German words flow all the more
new materials and new methods of work, astounding spontaneously from the pen as the Valkyrie,
us always by the prodigious activity of his imagina- perhaps, is as Teutonic as she is Norse) which
tion and his insatiable thirst for knowledge, he speeds her to the longed-for field of battle. As
undertook with the same enthusiasm, and almost she, heedless and fearless, tears along on her
always with equal success, the making of sculptures, snorting steed, she espies from afar the valorous
and works of plastic art the most diverse in hero, destined this day to bite the dust and as her
nature. He was also a remarkable teacher and set Einherja to ride with her to Valhalla, the golden hall
himself to reorganise art
teaching in his country and
to accord to the crafts and
to applied art generally their
due measure of value and
importance. Certain of
our most prominent sculp-
tors owe a great deal of
their success to him, in
common with Rousseau,
Rombaux, and P. Dubois.
F. K.
COPENHAGEN.
—Carl Martin
Hansen's three
statuettes repre-
senting Danish types, which
are reproduced on p.
76, carry on old traditions
of the Royal Danish Por-
celain Works and possess
no mean merit from an
artistic point of view, within
their narrow compass giving
much of what is charac-
teristic for the individual
models. The lines are
pleasing and self-con-
tained—a two-fold virtue
where the question is of
such a fragile medium as
porcelain.
Stephan Sinding's Vai-
kyrit shares it I mistake
not, In the sculptor's mind
the premier place amongst
his works with his To
J\^cjinesk&r Between the
" le devouement : portion op the "monument de l infinie bonte'
latter and the former, how- by chari.es van der stappej--
75