DOI Heft:
No. 235 (October 1912)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0103
Studio-Talk
1 THE POET
BY VLASTIMIL HOFMANN
Fanto’s Hungarian, Bohemian, and Dalmatian
types, and the colour-work of Dora Seifert, deserve
the utmost praise. H. W. S.
form the underlying character and soul,
and have been able to give expression
thereto. So it comes that M. Pellini
enjoys in Italy the consideration of the
most discerning critics, who have the
greatest faith in his future. I have already
written in these pages of Tranquillo Cre-
mona, one of the vanguard of the new
school of plastic art to which Pellini be-
longs, and I have also remarked upon the
influence which Cremona, though his efforts
were to some extent paralysed by reaction-
aries, has exercised in Lombardy. To-day
we are gathering a flower, part of the
harvest of that influence, in the productions
of M. Pellini, whose graceful art responds
to the delicacy of Cremona, his style to the
marvellous nuances of this master, while we
do not fail to recognise the sculptor’s
originality and freshness. This phenomenon
of the influence of a painter upon a sculptor
is by no means a new one,but this example of
it from Lombardy which I now bring to your
notice makes a very interesting chapter in the
history of present-day sculpture in Italy. A. M.
ILAN. — Eugenio Pellini, a young
sculptor who hails from the country
near Milan, and who now lives in the
city itself, has come to the
front in these last few years. His work
is modem in feeling, and he is espe-
cially powerful in expressing maternal
tenderness or infant ingenuousness.
Among his notable achievements is a
Gethsemane, in the “ Monumentale di
Milano,” the famous cemetery of the
city. This work of noble lines and high
inspiration attracts by reason of its fine
presentment of the lofty ideal of which
Christ is the sublime personification.
Apart from the Gethsematie M. Pellini’s
oeuvre comprises a number of bronzes
and marbles, all very poetic in concep-
tion. Here we have the most lively and
naive of the artist’s productions, among
which The Idol, now reproduced, is one
of the most touching. In this group, as,
indeed, in all his work, he convinces us
that sincerity is his watchword, and that
he is the heir of all those masters who
have discovered for us in the human
P
kRAGUE.—Vlastimil Hofmann, of whose
work two examples are here given, is a
Czech by birth but Polish by education
and in his artistic tendencies. The charac-
teristic of his work is a curious combination of
MADONNA GAUDIOSA
BY VLASTIMIL HOFMANN
81
1 THE POET
BY VLASTIMIL HOFMANN
Fanto’s Hungarian, Bohemian, and Dalmatian
types, and the colour-work of Dora Seifert, deserve
the utmost praise. H. W. S.
form the underlying character and soul,
and have been able to give expression
thereto. So it comes that M. Pellini
enjoys in Italy the consideration of the
most discerning critics, who have the
greatest faith in his future. I have already
written in these pages of Tranquillo Cre-
mona, one of the vanguard of the new
school of plastic art to which Pellini be-
longs, and I have also remarked upon the
influence which Cremona, though his efforts
were to some extent paralysed by reaction-
aries, has exercised in Lombardy. To-day
we are gathering a flower, part of the
harvest of that influence, in the productions
of M. Pellini, whose graceful art responds
to the delicacy of Cremona, his style to the
marvellous nuances of this master, while we
do not fail to recognise the sculptor’s
originality and freshness. This phenomenon
of the influence of a painter upon a sculptor
is by no means a new one,but this example of
it from Lombardy which I now bring to your
notice makes a very interesting chapter in the
history of present-day sculpture in Italy. A. M.
ILAN. — Eugenio Pellini, a young
sculptor who hails from the country
near Milan, and who now lives in the
city itself, has come to the
front in these last few years. His work
is modem in feeling, and he is espe-
cially powerful in expressing maternal
tenderness or infant ingenuousness.
Among his notable achievements is a
Gethsemane, in the “ Monumentale di
Milano,” the famous cemetery of the
city. This work of noble lines and high
inspiration attracts by reason of its fine
presentment of the lofty ideal of which
Christ is the sublime personification.
Apart from the Gethsematie M. Pellini’s
oeuvre comprises a number of bronzes
and marbles, all very poetic in concep-
tion. Here we have the most lively and
naive of the artist’s productions, among
which The Idol, now reproduced, is one
of the most touching. In this group, as,
indeed, in all his work, he convinces us
that sincerity is his watchword, and that
he is the heir of all those masters who
have discovered for us in the human
P
kRAGUE.—Vlastimil Hofmann, of whose
work two examples are here given, is a
Czech by birth but Polish by education
and in his artistic tendencies. The charac-
teristic of his work is a curious combination of
MADONNA GAUDIOSA
BY VLASTIMIL HOFMANN
81