Studio: international art (57.1913)

Modern German Embroidery

EMBROIDERED TABI.E-COVER. STAATLICHE KUNSTGE-
WERBE-SCHULE, HAMBURG (p. HELMS’ CLASS)

BLACK AND WHITE SILK CUSHION WITH CENTRE
PANEL OF EMBROIDERED FLOWERS. BY MARIA
SINSTEDEN

garden city of Hellerau, founded by this firm.
The designs are by artists like Alexander von
Salzmann and Charlotte Krause, and as numerous
replicas are made of each, the cost of these Hellerau
embroideries is materially lessened, and they are
thus brought within the reach of people of moderate
means who have hitherto had no choice apart from
the tasteless articles produced wholesale by “the
trade.”

The embroideries executed by Fraulein Betty
Berger, after designs by Otto Lietz, are true colour-
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symphonies. A fertile imagination here finds
utterance in harmonies of line and colour without
betraying any striving to achieve decorative effect
by chance experiment, but also without any trace
of cold calculation in the elaboration of the scheme.
The linear ornamentation is developed on logical
and natural lines; at once clear and simple, it js
free from capricious and meaningless flourishes,

EMBROIDERED BAG

BY MARTHA MEYER

CENTRE PANEL OF SQUARE CUSHION EMBROIDERED IN
PALE GREEN AND GOLD THREAD ON BLACK SILK BY
MARIA SINSTEDEN