Studio: international art (57.1913)

Modern German Embroidery

and design, but after all the actual work, the
enduring product, had always been reserved to
women. If with the male artist the point of chief
importance was the artistic effect, while technical
perfection and durability were secondary matters,

the 'female artist, familiar with the
peculiarities of material and the
diverse methods of manipulation,
always had in view the wishes of the
housewife and the requirements of
daily use, and thus her work, in which
the charm of novelty united with a
certain simplicity and executive
thoroughness, secured a more sym-
pathetic reception than was accorded
to the productions of her male com-
petitor.

And then, in addition to that,
when the reorganisation of the
schools and other institutions in which
applied art was taught was set on
foot, their backwardness having
quickly made itself apparent, drawing
and designing fell more and more into
the background and gave place to
practical work, so far as was possible within the scope
of the school administration Furniture-making and
metal-work could not be carried on in all schools,
but embroidery presented agreeable possibilities
of familiarising scholars with the fundamenta

WALL-HANGING, WORKED IN COLOURED STRING. DESIGNED BY THEA
WITTMANN, EXECUTED BY FRAU F. DERI-WINTER

EMBROIDERIES DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY GERTRUD LORENZ

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