DOI Heft:
No. 229 (May 1912)
DOI Artikel:Mobbs, Robert: A Swiss artist: Edmond G. Reuter
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0318
Edmond G. Reuter
PAINTED TAPESTRY WALL-HANGING
BY EDMOND G. REUTER
cases in collaboration with his gifted wife, as his
chief work. It is in this way that he began his
series of painted tapestries, screens, stools, book-
cases, presses, and painted and embroidered
curtains, &c., which were intended neither for the
art show nor to satisfy the itching curiosity of the
fashionable customer, but purely and simply for
home adornment.
And what a wealth of beauty discreetly and
harmoniously distributed and arranged we have
here! Our eyes fall upon a bookcase stained deep
blue-green, on the edges of its shelves a Latin in-
scription standing out in gilt gesso. It contains,
among books on art, a row of portfolios full of
water-colour sketches by the artist. A pair of
large curtains are adorned with Gothic scrolls,
and the signs of the zodiac painted in bold water-
colours on coarse canvas and outlined in wool
applied with the needle. Here are some stools of
old Swiss design stained red, peacock-blue, bronze-
green with gilt gesso ornaments, and two panels
painted in bold and delicate water-colours on linen
form the decoration of the double doors of the
drawing-room, and show an orange-tree and a
yellow rose bush growing out of vases, and ac-
companied by the stems of a vine symmetrically
pleasure of seeing anything like an ensemble of his
work. A few of his productions are to be seen in
the galleries of his native city, and some of his
most beautiful tapestries and illuminations are
amongst those art treasures of which rich Genevese
families are justly proud. The quaint, original,
imaginative compositions with which he has illus-
trated “ Le Sire de Stretlingen,” by M. Daniel
Baud-Bovy, are among his most recent contribu-
tions to the art of the book in this country.
But to form an adequate idea of the artist and
his achievement one must visit him in his delight-
ful apartment, in the neighbourhood of the city.
Here one is at once transported to a quiet place
where there seems to be large leisure and long,
silent hours for the maturing and executing of
beautiful design. Right in the heart of a modern
building, one steps into a suite of rooms so adorned
by the artist’s hand that they breathe as it were
the spirit and traditions of a golden age in the past.
From the spacious windows a glorious view of the
mountains breaks upon the sight, and within on
wall, door-panel, furniture, and in rich portfolio a
quaint, rare, and beautiful art has evoked an
enchanted world.
M. Reuter has always considered work done in
his leisure hours, for his delectation, and in many
PAINTED TAPESTRY WALL-HANGING
BY EDMOND G. REUTER
295
PAINTED TAPESTRY WALL-HANGING
BY EDMOND G. REUTER
cases in collaboration with his gifted wife, as his
chief work. It is in this way that he began his
series of painted tapestries, screens, stools, book-
cases, presses, and painted and embroidered
curtains, &c., which were intended neither for the
art show nor to satisfy the itching curiosity of the
fashionable customer, but purely and simply for
home adornment.
And what a wealth of beauty discreetly and
harmoniously distributed and arranged we have
here! Our eyes fall upon a bookcase stained deep
blue-green, on the edges of its shelves a Latin in-
scription standing out in gilt gesso. It contains,
among books on art, a row of portfolios full of
water-colour sketches by the artist. A pair of
large curtains are adorned with Gothic scrolls,
and the signs of the zodiac painted in bold water-
colours on coarse canvas and outlined in wool
applied with the needle. Here are some stools of
old Swiss design stained red, peacock-blue, bronze-
green with gilt gesso ornaments, and two panels
painted in bold and delicate water-colours on linen
form the decoration of the double doors of the
drawing-room, and show an orange-tree and a
yellow rose bush growing out of vases, and ac-
companied by the stems of a vine symmetrically
pleasure of seeing anything like an ensemble of his
work. A few of his productions are to be seen in
the galleries of his native city, and some of his
most beautiful tapestries and illuminations are
amongst those art treasures of which rich Genevese
families are justly proud. The quaint, original,
imaginative compositions with which he has illus-
trated “ Le Sire de Stretlingen,” by M. Daniel
Baud-Bovy, are among his most recent contribu-
tions to the art of the book in this country.
But to form an adequate idea of the artist and
his achievement one must visit him in his delight-
ful apartment, in the neighbourhood of the city.
Here one is at once transported to a quiet place
where there seems to be large leisure and long,
silent hours for the maturing and executing of
beautiful design. Right in the heart of a modern
building, one steps into a suite of rooms so adorned
by the artist’s hand that they breathe as it were
the spirit and traditions of a golden age in the past.
From the spacious windows a glorious view of the
mountains breaks upon the sight, and within on
wall, door-panel, furniture, and in rich portfolio a
quaint, rare, and beautiful art has evoked an
enchanted world.
M. Reuter has always considered work done in
his leisure hours, for his delectation, and in many
PAINTED TAPESTRY WALL-HANGING
BY EDMOND G. REUTER
295