Studio: international art (57.1913)

Studio-Talk

Geneva.—The “Sotiete j. j.

Rousseau,” founded in 1905
at the University of Geneva,
and whose archives and
annals have already rendered signal ser-
vice to Rousseau students, was happily
inspired in organising at the Rath Gallery
an Iconographic Exhibition in connection
with the recent bicentenary celebrations.
The society, drawing upon its archives
and receiving contributions from the
museum, the university, and important
public and private collections in the
drawings, never allowing it when completed to country, was able to open an exhibition not only
depart from the harmony of his vision. of literary and historical interest, but of artistic

“VIEW OF BAMBERG” (ILLUSTRATION FOR “ILSE”) BY H. S. CIOLKOWSKI

Ciolkowski does not confine himself entirely to
pen-and-ink work; ofttimes he turns his attention
to leaded-glass design, jewellery, and
monograms, his monograms being
specially remarkable for their excellent
simplicity of design. To predict his
future is to make no comparison of his
work with that of others. Phil May
and Aubrey Beardsley knocked away
the props from the commonplace
standard of black-and-white in England,
and gave us their art. Ciolkowski, too,
is producing his own, and we may look
forward to a more complete variation of
his art in the edition de luxe of “Ilse,”
by the Baronne Deslandes, which he is
at present engaged in illustrating.

E. A. T.

value and significance. Before dealing with the
exhibition, however, I propose to say something

TAIL-PIECE

BY H. “CIOLKOWSKI

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