DOI Heft:
No. 235 (October 1912)
DOI Artikel:Deubner, L.: Modern German embroidery
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0073
Studio-Talk
and a healthy feeling for colour imparts a special
charm to the design.
The same intelligent co-operation of designer
and executant is discernible in the ecclesiastical
embroideries of Prof. Otto Gussmann and Fraulein
Armgard Angermann, of Dresden. The latter has
so completely identified herself with the intentions
and views of her partner during their many years
of collaboration that the products of their joint
efforts look like the work of a single individual.
In her applique work Frau Edda Wiese has
developed not only a technique of her own but also
a quite distinctive style. Out of bright-coloured
material she cuts patches and strips which she
juxtaposes in various ways, here and there employ-
ing a little embroidery to help the design. She is
particularly successful in reproducing landscape
effects, as in the screen reproduced among the ac-
companying illustrations.
A new and altogether
peculiar technique has
been employed in the exe-
cution of the wall-hanging
designed by Fraulein Thea
Wittmann and worked
by Frau Deri-Win ter
(see p. 43). The design
is here worked with
coloured string on strands
of pack-thread sewn to-
gether, a very laborious
process in view of the
refractory nature of the
material, and one neces-
sitating a marked simpli-
fication of form in the
design. The way in which
the space has been utilised,
the effective use of a few
bold colours and the in-
troduction of bright-
coloured flowers to enliven
the ground—all this speaks
of a well-trained and sure
decorative feeling.
This more or less chance
selection of modern Ger-
man embroidery may be of
interest as showing the
diversity of talent now
engaged in producing,
often with the very sim-
plest materials, work that
is at once individual in
character and of artistic value, work that ranks far
above those insipid productions on which femi-
nine dilettantism continues to waste an infinity of
energy, time, and material. L. D.
STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
IONDON.—We are reproducing herewith a
study of a girl’s head, by Mr. E. H.
Thomas. The artist, who is a native of
—J Cardiff, is the possessor of considerable
skill in commanding a class of effect in portraiture
to which a monochrome reproduction cannot do
full justice.
Miss Anna Airy, reproductions of whose works
we are here giving, is an artist of exceptional interest.
and a healthy feeling for colour imparts a special
charm to the design.
The same intelligent co-operation of designer
and executant is discernible in the ecclesiastical
embroideries of Prof. Otto Gussmann and Fraulein
Armgard Angermann, of Dresden. The latter has
so completely identified herself with the intentions
and views of her partner during their many years
of collaboration that the products of their joint
efforts look like the work of a single individual.
In her applique work Frau Edda Wiese has
developed not only a technique of her own but also
a quite distinctive style. Out of bright-coloured
material she cuts patches and strips which she
juxtaposes in various ways, here and there employ-
ing a little embroidery to help the design. She is
particularly successful in reproducing landscape
effects, as in the screen reproduced among the ac-
companying illustrations.
A new and altogether
peculiar technique has
been employed in the exe-
cution of the wall-hanging
designed by Fraulein Thea
Wittmann and worked
by Frau Deri-Win ter
(see p. 43). The design
is here worked with
coloured string on strands
of pack-thread sewn to-
gether, a very laborious
process in view of the
refractory nature of the
material, and one neces-
sitating a marked simpli-
fication of form in the
design. The way in which
the space has been utilised,
the effective use of a few
bold colours and the in-
troduction of bright-
coloured flowers to enliven
the ground—all this speaks
of a well-trained and sure
decorative feeling.
This more or less chance
selection of modern Ger-
man embroidery may be of
interest as showing the
diversity of talent now
engaged in producing,
often with the very sim-
plest materials, work that
is at once individual in
character and of artistic value, work that ranks far
above those insipid productions on which femi-
nine dilettantism continues to waste an infinity of
energy, time, and material. L. D.
STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
IONDON.—We are reproducing herewith a
study of a girl’s head, by Mr. E. H.
Thomas. The artist, who is a native of
—J Cardiff, is the possessor of considerable
skill in commanding a class of effect in portraiture
to which a monochrome reproduction cannot do
full justice.
Miss Anna Airy, reproductions of whose works
we are here giving, is an artist of exceptional interest.