DOI Heft:
No. 229 (April 1912)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0269
Studio-Talk
cigarettes, and he is responsible for countless posters
and water-colour drawings. This artist more than
any other is responsible for the raising of poster-
designing to the level of a fine and virile art. It
should be added that the examples reproduced are
issued from the press of the Messrs. Schuh'and Co.’s
Vereinigte Druckereien und Kunstanstalten.
F. G.
BERLIN.—The Hungarian sculptor Sandor
Jaray has for many years been a resident
of Berlin. He came to us from the
Vienna Academy of Arts, and started as
an actor but decided to become "a sculptor after
having carried off the Academy prize
with a lovely nude, the Somnambule.
Studies in Rome confirmed his
adoration of perfect form, but he
has always striven for sensitive or
passionate expression, whether wood
or stone is his medium. A predi-
lection for the characteristic never
allowed his ideals of simplicity and
harmony to suffer. His statue of
the celebrated actor Kainz as
Hamlet has been recently unveiled
in Vienna. Jaray is always original
and compels interest in his further
development.
unparalleled as an interpreter of the great Frederick,
Adolf Menzel, was to be admired in several items
of his inspired realism, and among living painters,
Arthur Kampf, the president of the Academy,
carried off the laurels of the victor. His Frederick
the Great after the Seven Years' War (the scene of
which is laid in the church at Charlottenburg) and
his Frederick addressing his Generals on his death-
bed humanise history with the penetrativeness of
Carlyle.
Schulte has been holding his annual “ Hunting
and Sport” exhibition, in which animal painters
like Sperling and Weczerzick and artists whe
The two hundredth anniversary
of the birth of Frederick the
Great has been celebrated at our
Royal Academy of Arts by an ex-
hibition of special attractiveness.
The fascinating personality of the
king as monarch, artist, soldier, wit,
and philosopher was made alive
throughout every phase of his de-
velopment in a series of painted,
sculptured, and engraved represen-
tations by artists of his own and
later days. This evocation was
made all the more impressive by the
simultaneous appearance of his kin-
dred, friends, and companions as
well as of some rooms which actually
played a part in his life. We could
again enjoy the corporate choir ot
discreet harmonies in Antoine
Pesne’s rococo art, the psychologic
discernment of Graff, Schadow, and
Chodowiecki, and Rauch’s classical
nobility. The master who was
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“ADAM AND EV'K
BY SANDOR JARAY
cigarettes, and he is responsible for countless posters
and water-colour drawings. This artist more than
any other is responsible for the raising of poster-
designing to the level of a fine and virile art. It
should be added that the examples reproduced are
issued from the press of the Messrs. Schuh'and Co.’s
Vereinigte Druckereien und Kunstanstalten.
F. G.
BERLIN.—The Hungarian sculptor Sandor
Jaray has for many years been a resident
of Berlin. He came to us from the
Vienna Academy of Arts, and started as
an actor but decided to become "a sculptor after
having carried off the Academy prize
with a lovely nude, the Somnambule.
Studies in Rome confirmed his
adoration of perfect form, but he
has always striven for sensitive or
passionate expression, whether wood
or stone is his medium. A predi-
lection for the characteristic never
allowed his ideals of simplicity and
harmony to suffer. His statue of
the celebrated actor Kainz as
Hamlet has been recently unveiled
in Vienna. Jaray is always original
and compels interest in his further
development.
unparalleled as an interpreter of the great Frederick,
Adolf Menzel, was to be admired in several items
of his inspired realism, and among living painters,
Arthur Kampf, the president of the Academy,
carried off the laurels of the victor. His Frederick
the Great after the Seven Years' War (the scene of
which is laid in the church at Charlottenburg) and
his Frederick addressing his Generals on his death-
bed humanise history with the penetrativeness of
Carlyle.
Schulte has been holding his annual “ Hunting
and Sport” exhibition, in which animal painters
like Sperling and Weczerzick and artists whe
The two hundredth anniversary
of the birth of Frederick the
Great has been celebrated at our
Royal Academy of Arts by an ex-
hibition of special attractiveness.
The fascinating personality of the
king as monarch, artist, soldier, wit,
and philosopher was made alive
throughout every phase of his de-
velopment in a series of painted,
sculptured, and engraved represen-
tations by artists of his own and
later days. This evocation was
made all the more impressive by the
simultaneous appearance of his kin-
dred, friends, and companions as
well as of some rooms which actually
played a part in his life. We could
again enjoy the corporate choir ot
discreet harmonies in Antoine
Pesne’s rococo art, the psychologic
discernment of Graff, Schadow, and
Chodowiecki, and Rauch’s classical
nobility. The master who was
248
“ADAM AND EV'K
BY SANDOR JARAY