DOI issue:
No. 227 (February 1912)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0081
Studio-Talk
“THE SWIMMING LOG’
(pastel)
(Berlin Secession)
scriptive. In his works we become sensible of that
rough and hardy life in which a man must act
rather than meditate. His work is full of strength,
clear and sharp in colouring, like peaks against a
cloudless sky.
beauty. Certainly they are
there, waiting and unknown,
and in this phalanx lies the
hope of the Polish nation. A
fiery temperament, delicate
sensibility, and high ideals
are evinced in the sculptures
of Luna Drexlerowna.
Psychologically the most in-
teresting period of an artist’s
development is that in which
the process of self-discovery
is still proceeding, in which
the artist errs and stumbles
forward, the thoughts oscil-
late between the will and the
emotions. Nevertheless the
power is there, a few years of
work have given proof of
continued and sustained
effort, of progress achieved,
and we may safely foresee
in Mile. Drexlerowna one of
the ablest of contemporary sculptors in Poland.
BY LUDWIG VON HOFMANN
Albert Gos is a very original personality, extra-
ordinarily gifted, but of most opposite and apparently
incongruous characteristics. He is a painter and
Politically Poland has
ceased to exist, but the soul
of this race, which in the
eleventh century found its
expression in the glory and
power of Boleslaw and
Miesko, and which later
inspired Jagellons and
Sobieski, is very far from
being annihilated, and seems
to evince itself to-day if any-
thing more vehemently in
religion, in language, and in
art. Now a new generation
is arising, namely, that of
those artists who proclaim
the Fatherland and who find
in art their freedom. Still
as it were in the shadow,
these wait and perceive the
day rapidly approaching
when their individuality, their
“ ego ” shall have conquered,
and they can astound the
world by. an lachievement of
“AT THE SOURCE.” (PASTEL)
(Berlin Secession)
BY LUDWIG VON HOFMANN
6r
“THE SWIMMING LOG’
(pastel)
(Berlin Secession)
scriptive. In his works we become sensible of that
rough and hardy life in which a man must act
rather than meditate. His work is full of strength,
clear and sharp in colouring, like peaks against a
cloudless sky.
beauty. Certainly they are
there, waiting and unknown,
and in this phalanx lies the
hope of the Polish nation. A
fiery temperament, delicate
sensibility, and high ideals
are evinced in the sculptures
of Luna Drexlerowna.
Psychologically the most in-
teresting period of an artist’s
development is that in which
the process of self-discovery
is still proceeding, in which
the artist errs and stumbles
forward, the thoughts oscil-
late between the will and the
emotions. Nevertheless the
power is there, a few years of
work have given proof of
continued and sustained
effort, of progress achieved,
and we may safely foresee
in Mile. Drexlerowna one of
the ablest of contemporary sculptors in Poland.
BY LUDWIG VON HOFMANN
Albert Gos is a very original personality, extra-
ordinarily gifted, but of most opposite and apparently
incongruous characteristics. He is a painter and
Politically Poland has
ceased to exist, but the soul
of this race, which in the
eleventh century found its
expression in the glory and
power of Boleslaw and
Miesko, and which later
inspired Jagellons and
Sobieski, is very far from
being annihilated, and seems
to evince itself to-day if any-
thing more vehemently in
religion, in language, and in
art. Now a new generation
is arising, namely, that of
those artists who proclaim
the Fatherland and who find
in art their freedom. Still
as it were in the shadow,
these wait and perceive the
day rapidly approaching
when their individuality, their
“ ego ” shall have conquered,
and they can astound the
world by. an lachievement of
“AT THE SOURCE.” (PASTEL)
(Berlin Secession)
BY LUDWIG VON HOFMANN
6r