DOI Heft:
No. 226 (January 1912)
DOI Artikel:Beaumont, A.: The late Felix Ziem
DOI Artikel:The New English Art Club's forty-sixth exhibition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0329
The New English Art Club
gondolas and scarlet mosques. Thrown about on ghostly figures as they moved along irTthe dim
old chairs and bits of oriental furniture are light with the paintings of Venice and Constanti-
gorgeous hangings, purple robes of Doges and of nople on the walls as a background so impressed
Grand Inquisitors, magnificent mantles and velvet Chopin that his hands and fingers trembled when
brocades. he struck the notes and he was overcome with a
Stories are told that in his later period of ac- sort of nervous terror,
tivity, when he still had sudden spells of youthful Some years ago Ziem became very feeble
ardour for work, he shut himself up at times in his in health and was threatened, it is said, with
studio for three months, dressed in the costume of partial paralysis. It was this which decided him
a Doge, and had his meals hoisted up in a basket to retire to Nice, where he remained till a short
to the window of his studio, not caring to use the time before his death, until in fact his condition
stair and afraid of being disturbed. There may had become hopeless. He was brought back to
be more fancy than truth in this story, and what- Paris, no doubt by his own express wish, and
ever life of a recluse he led towards the end he died at the old atelier in the Rue Lepic on
was far from being such a hermit in his earlier November 12. A. Beaumont.
days. Like many another painter he was passion-
ately fond of music and Frederic Chopin was one A | A, HE NEW ENGLISH ART
of his intimate friends. In fact the famous I CLUB'S FORTY-SIXTH EXHT-
" Funeral March " of the great composer was first BITION
conceived in his atelier. Petrus Borel, a romantic
character in those days, proposed one night a The New English Art Club has arrived at one
procession of ghosts in the artist's studio. Ziem of the most interesting moments of its career. Its
and the others took part in it and walked in ghostly history has been a long record of the assimilation
procession with sheets over their heads and the of one influence after another, to keep pace with
lights turned down. Chopin looked on, sat down the last thing in art, so far at least as this country
at the piano and struck the first notes of the march is in question. Some of its earliest members have
that was to become so famous. The sight of the gone long ago to "another place," receiving the
'AN ALPINE PASTURE" (WATER-COLOUR)
BY CHARLES M. GERE
3°7
gondolas and scarlet mosques. Thrown about on ghostly figures as they moved along irTthe dim
old chairs and bits of oriental furniture are light with the paintings of Venice and Constanti-
gorgeous hangings, purple robes of Doges and of nople on the walls as a background so impressed
Grand Inquisitors, magnificent mantles and velvet Chopin that his hands and fingers trembled when
brocades. he struck the notes and he was overcome with a
Stories are told that in his later period of ac- sort of nervous terror,
tivity, when he still had sudden spells of youthful Some years ago Ziem became very feeble
ardour for work, he shut himself up at times in his in health and was threatened, it is said, with
studio for three months, dressed in the costume of partial paralysis. It was this which decided him
a Doge, and had his meals hoisted up in a basket to retire to Nice, where he remained till a short
to the window of his studio, not caring to use the time before his death, until in fact his condition
stair and afraid of being disturbed. There may had become hopeless. He was brought back to
be more fancy than truth in this story, and what- Paris, no doubt by his own express wish, and
ever life of a recluse he led towards the end he died at the old atelier in the Rue Lepic on
was far from being such a hermit in his earlier November 12. A. Beaumont.
days. Like many another painter he was passion-
ately fond of music and Frederic Chopin was one A | A, HE NEW ENGLISH ART
of his intimate friends. In fact the famous I CLUB'S FORTY-SIXTH EXHT-
" Funeral March " of the great composer was first BITION
conceived in his atelier. Petrus Borel, a romantic
character in those days, proposed one night a The New English Art Club has arrived at one
procession of ghosts in the artist's studio. Ziem of the most interesting moments of its career. Its
and the others took part in it and walked in ghostly history has been a long record of the assimilation
procession with sheets over their heads and the of one influence after another, to keep pace with
lights turned down. Chopin looked on, sat down the last thing in art, so far at least as this country
at the piano and struck the first notes of the march is in question. Some of its earliest members have
that was to become so famous. The sight of the gone long ago to "another place," receiving the
'AN ALPINE PASTURE" (WATER-COLOUR)
BY CHARLES M. GERE
3°7