DOI Heft:
No. 226 (January 1912)
DOI Artikel:Schanzer, Hedwig: The teaching of design at the Prague arts and crafts school
DOI Artikel:Taylor, Ernest Archibald: Etchings by american artists in Paris, [2]: Lester G. Hornby
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0308
American Etchers in Paris.—Lester G. Hornby
a Government institution under the supervision of
the Ministry of Education in Vienna and the
Statthalterei of Bohemia. Besides Professor Benes
the teaching staff includes such well-known artists
as Professor Jan Kotera, an architect and designer
of international reputation, and the sculptors
Professors Kloucek and Sucharda, whose work, like
that of Professor Kotera, has been illustrated in
the page* of this magazine. The curricula em-
brace all branches of art, but the special function
of the school is of course to give instruction in
the various classes of applied or industrial art
(Ktaistgewerbe), and while the theoretical side of
artistic craftsmanship is by no means neglected,
particular attention is given to the practical side,
facilities being given in certain departments for
students to pursue their training outside the school,
where from the nature of the work the accommo-
dation provided by the school is inadequate. The
policy of the school, in short, is to equip the
students thoroughly for the calling they intend to
pursue, and by so doing to promote the national design for lace (mimosa) by marie dubovska
industries. H. S.
artistic temperaments. With its singleness of
ETCHINGS BY AMERICAN medium and long list of adherents, one would
ARTISTS IN PARIS II _ think nowadays that all its virtues, as well as its
faults, had been explored to the uttermost, and its
LESTER G. HORNBY. BY E. A. technical weakness and power known to the ex-
TAYLOR. elusion of any new enterprise or individualism. That
There is an attraction about etching, apart from the phantom of Whistler's spirited etching enthu-
its great tradition, that appeals specially to certain siasm is still prevalent in Paris is only too evi-
dent among the younger
students, who are captivated
by its possible results.
One sees, too, the bigness
of Brangwyn's method in-
fluencing their weak efforts.
The pity of it is that they
do not early realise that
no two men can see alike,
and that to compress them-
selves into feeble tabloid
editions of the recognised
past and foremost present-
day workers is not creating
anything new for art, but
is merely a display of super-
ficial mediocrity. The true
artist must surely feel the
unrest in his soul in spite
of the world's applause,
gained so often at the loss
, > °f oneself, and won alone
design for leather intarsia (ox-eye daisy motif) '.
by marie hartvichova by ability m being able to
a Government institution under the supervision of
the Ministry of Education in Vienna and the
Statthalterei of Bohemia. Besides Professor Benes
the teaching staff includes such well-known artists
as Professor Jan Kotera, an architect and designer
of international reputation, and the sculptors
Professors Kloucek and Sucharda, whose work, like
that of Professor Kotera, has been illustrated in
the page* of this magazine. The curricula em-
brace all branches of art, but the special function
of the school is of course to give instruction in
the various classes of applied or industrial art
(Ktaistgewerbe), and while the theoretical side of
artistic craftsmanship is by no means neglected,
particular attention is given to the practical side,
facilities being given in certain departments for
students to pursue their training outside the school,
where from the nature of the work the accommo-
dation provided by the school is inadequate. The
policy of the school, in short, is to equip the
students thoroughly for the calling they intend to
pursue, and by so doing to promote the national design for lace (mimosa) by marie dubovska
industries. H. S.
artistic temperaments. With its singleness of
ETCHINGS BY AMERICAN medium and long list of adherents, one would
ARTISTS IN PARIS II _ think nowadays that all its virtues, as well as its
faults, had been explored to the uttermost, and its
LESTER G. HORNBY. BY E. A. technical weakness and power known to the ex-
TAYLOR. elusion of any new enterprise or individualism. That
There is an attraction about etching, apart from the phantom of Whistler's spirited etching enthu-
its great tradition, that appeals specially to certain siasm is still prevalent in Paris is only too evi-
dent among the younger
students, who are captivated
by its possible results.
One sees, too, the bigness
of Brangwyn's method in-
fluencing their weak efforts.
The pity of it is that they
do not early realise that
no two men can see alike,
and that to compress them-
selves into feeble tabloid
editions of the recognised
past and foremost present-
day workers is not creating
anything new for art, but
is merely a display of super-
ficial mediocrity. The true
artist must surely feel the
unrest in his soul in spite
of the world's applause,
gained so often at the loss
, > °f oneself, and won alone
design for leather intarsia (ox-eye daisy motif) '.
by marie hartvichova by ability m being able to