DOI Heft:
No. 223 (October 1911)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0096
Studio-Talk
into the waves, but full of sunshine, of marvellous
brio and movement. Open to criticism it certainly is,
being painted in the " divisionist " method, but so
exaggerated, so overdone that the colours do not
blend to the view within the distance of the room in
which the picture is hung: but it is a painting which
stands out and alone, which will make a stir, and,
not improbably, a school. Vilhelm Hammershoi
is well represented in this section with eleven
paintings of a more reserved palette, and among
the bronzes of Marie Carl Nielsen I noted espe-
cially an equestrian Portrait of Countess A. L.
No palace of the Rome Exhibition is more en-
tirely satisfactory, from a decorative point of view,
than that of Austria, and the result achieved reflects
the highest credit upon the architect Hoffmann,
whom I understand to have been consulted
throughout. From the cool white marble entrance-
court, which rests at once the eyes and brain tired
with picture-seeing, throughout the rooms there is
not a single discordant note; and the pavilion is,
in fact, an object-lesson in the hanging and placing
of pictures with a view to their fullest decorative
value. The selection of works is careful, but, from
the above considerations, necessarily limited. One
room of great interest is devoted to the work of
Klimt.
From Austria we might appropriately pass on to
the pavilion of Hungary, with a really brilliant
collection of paintings by such masters of their art
as Stephen Csok, Ferenczy, and Szinyei, whose
exquisite creation of The Lark I saw here for the
first time and could compare with his earlier work >
but I wish to give some of my space here to the
Belgian art, which forms a very attractive little ex-
hibition. Fernand Khnopff, with his refined finish
of drawing, is of course known to many of our
readers ; but I would like also to mention
Baertsoen with his Gand, le Soir (reproduced), the
impressionist art of Glaus, the landscapes of
Courtens, the peasant life of Struys, the fine
portraits of Wauters, and in sculpture the bust
of a young girl by Rousseau, and the remarkable
Toise de Triton of Vincotte, an evident follower,
but an able one, of the great Rodin.
In this brief survey I shall pass by Germany and
France, both adequately but not very attractively
"SUMMER ''
74
BY APOLI.INARIS VASNETZOFF
into the waves, but full of sunshine, of marvellous
brio and movement. Open to criticism it certainly is,
being painted in the " divisionist " method, but so
exaggerated, so overdone that the colours do not
blend to the view within the distance of the room in
which the picture is hung: but it is a painting which
stands out and alone, which will make a stir, and,
not improbably, a school. Vilhelm Hammershoi
is well represented in this section with eleven
paintings of a more reserved palette, and among
the bronzes of Marie Carl Nielsen I noted espe-
cially an equestrian Portrait of Countess A. L.
No palace of the Rome Exhibition is more en-
tirely satisfactory, from a decorative point of view,
than that of Austria, and the result achieved reflects
the highest credit upon the architect Hoffmann,
whom I understand to have been consulted
throughout. From the cool white marble entrance-
court, which rests at once the eyes and brain tired
with picture-seeing, throughout the rooms there is
not a single discordant note; and the pavilion is,
in fact, an object-lesson in the hanging and placing
of pictures with a view to their fullest decorative
value. The selection of works is careful, but, from
the above considerations, necessarily limited. One
room of great interest is devoted to the work of
Klimt.
From Austria we might appropriately pass on to
the pavilion of Hungary, with a really brilliant
collection of paintings by such masters of their art
as Stephen Csok, Ferenczy, and Szinyei, whose
exquisite creation of The Lark I saw here for the
first time and could compare with his earlier work >
but I wish to give some of my space here to the
Belgian art, which forms a very attractive little ex-
hibition. Fernand Khnopff, with his refined finish
of drawing, is of course known to many of our
readers ; but I would like also to mention
Baertsoen with his Gand, le Soir (reproduced), the
impressionist art of Glaus, the landscapes of
Courtens, the peasant life of Struys, the fine
portraits of Wauters, and in sculpture the bust
of a young girl by Rousseau, and the remarkable
Toise de Triton of Vincotte, an evident follower,
but an able one, of the great Rodin.
In this brief survey I shall pass by Germany and
France, both adequately but not very attractively
"SUMMER ''
74
BY APOLI.INARIS VASNETZOFF