DOI Heft:
No. 232 (July 1912)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs ind domestic architecture
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21157#0162
Studio-Talk
kingdom of Poland—Little Russia, Volhynia, and
Podolia—where the intermingling of Occidental and
Oriental elements often produces curious architec-
tural combinations. The drawings reproduced
form part of an extensive series which attracted
considerable notice when shown at recent exhibi-
tions in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and like all
the rest are, we gather, to be regarded more in the
nature of compositions than actual studies from
nature ; thus though he gives to one the title of
“ The Capital,” what we really have is not an
actual drawing of St. Petersburg, but a composition
embodying the characteristics of the architecture
of the northern capital. Similarly with the other
drawing; though the group of houses here de-
picted may not be found to exist anywhere, yet
as regards the style and colour-ornamentation of
these one-storied wooden houses, the drawing may
be accepted as typical of the domestic architec-
ture of a small provincial town of Russia. It is
interesting to note that the national architecture of
Russia has of late years been attracting more and
more attention from her artists. At the beginning
of the nineteenth century this genre had one or two
able exponents, such as Fedor Alexeieff and his
pupil Maxim Vorobieff, but later on architectural
motifs were almost completely neglected by Russian
artists ; and not until the literary element began to
disappear from Russian art was interest in architec-
tural subjects reawakened.
STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
LONDON.—It speaks well for the vitality of
the New English Art Club that three or
four of its most prominent members can
abstain from exhibiting without the visitor
being oppressed with a sense of things missing.
This year Mr. Wilson Steer disappointed his
admirers greatly in his Bridgnorth. This painting
showed nothing of Mr. Steer’s beautiful sense of
colour, in which he leans so instinctively to those
problems of silvery effect which are the despair of
less highly attuned genius. The picture Recon-
noitring, by Mr. J. S. Sargent, which we are repro-
ducing, is a singularly interesting canvas. It is
just as if Mr. Sargent wished to prove in it the sum
BEDROOM AT VILLA NEUBECK
DESIGNED BY PAUL RENNER
140
kingdom of Poland—Little Russia, Volhynia, and
Podolia—where the intermingling of Occidental and
Oriental elements often produces curious architec-
tural combinations. The drawings reproduced
form part of an extensive series which attracted
considerable notice when shown at recent exhibi-
tions in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and like all
the rest are, we gather, to be regarded more in the
nature of compositions than actual studies from
nature ; thus though he gives to one the title of
“ The Capital,” what we really have is not an
actual drawing of St. Petersburg, but a composition
embodying the characteristics of the architecture
of the northern capital. Similarly with the other
drawing; though the group of houses here de-
picted may not be found to exist anywhere, yet
as regards the style and colour-ornamentation of
these one-storied wooden houses, the drawing may
be accepted as typical of the domestic architec-
ture of a small provincial town of Russia. It is
interesting to note that the national architecture of
Russia has of late years been attracting more and
more attention from her artists. At the beginning
of the nineteenth century this genre had one or two
able exponents, such as Fedor Alexeieff and his
pupil Maxim Vorobieff, but later on architectural
motifs were almost completely neglected by Russian
artists ; and not until the literary element began to
disappear from Russian art was interest in architec-
tural subjects reawakened.
STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
LONDON.—It speaks well for the vitality of
the New English Art Club that three or
four of its most prominent members can
abstain from exhibiting without the visitor
being oppressed with a sense of things missing.
This year Mr. Wilson Steer disappointed his
admirers greatly in his Bridgnorth. This painting
showed nothing of Mr. Steer’s beautiful sense of
colour, in which he leans so instinctively to those
problems of silvery effect which are the despair of
less highly attuned genius. The picture Recon-
noitring, by Mr. J. S. Sargent, which we are repro-
ducing, is a singularly interesting canvas. It is
just as if Mr. Sargent wished to prove in it the sum
BEDROOM AT VILLA NEUBECK
DESIGNED BY PAUL RENNER
140