DOI Heft:
No. 236 (November 1912)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0184
Studio-Talk
others. For some years he has devoted much
thought to the training of the memory, and with a
searching enjoyment he set himself the perhaps not
easy task of collecting material for his translation of
the notes and letters on the same subject by Lecoq
de Boisbaudran. Its publication for the first time in
English last year under the title of “ The Training
of the Memory in Art ” was rapidly appreciated by
teachers and students, and occasioned many diverse
criticisms. Some day, perhaps, Mr. Luard will add
to his translation some of his own methods and ex-
periences, which I am sure will prove as helpful as
those of the master he has translated. E. A. T.
A GRAM, CROATIA.—The portrait bust
of the King of Montenegro of which
an illustration is given on page 161,
is by Rudolf Valdec (Valdets), one
of the younger professors at the Art Academy
in Zagreb,
as Agram
is called by
the Croatians.
He received
his art train-
ing under Pro-
fessors Eberle
and Kiihne in
Munich. In his
own country
(he is a native
of K ra p i n a
in Croatia)
Valdec has
already gained
fame both
as a portrait-
ist in marble
162
and bronze and in larger works
of sculpture. His bust of
Bishop Strossmayer, a man of
high culture who did much for
art in Croatia and left his fine
collection to his country, merits
special mention as a work
well conceived and admirably
carried out. Another of King
Peter of Servia is also a good
work. Besides these he has also
portrayed the chief statesmen,
politicians, and men of note
in Croatia. In all that he has
done, Prof. Valdec shows earnest
search for the truths of art.
He has been awarded many distinctions for the
works he has exhibited in different lands, and in
his own country he has met with well-deserved
recognition. A. S. L.
CRACOW.—At the home in Cracow of
the family of the late Polish artist
Stanislaw Chlebowski, who was the
court painter of the Sultan Abdul-Aziz,
I found a simple album covered with grey linen,
containing drawings by the Sultan—sketches of
great worth. They are the work of a hand un-
trained but bold. Only some crooked contour-
lines which at first give one the impression of
Turkish writing : some necks of horses and some
uplifted swords, the outline of a rising dust-cloud,
the straight lines of masts and swollen sails ; but
in spite of this simple manner there exists such a
feeling of life and movement, such an understand-
others. For some years he has devoted much
thought to the training of the memory, and with a
searching enjoyment he set himself the perhaps not
easy task of collecting material for his translation of
the notes and letters on the same subject by Lecoq
de Boisbaudran. Its publication for the first time in
English last year under the title of “ The Training
of the Memory in Art ” was rapidly appreciated by
teachers and students, and occasioned many diverse
criticisms. Some day, perhaps, Mr. Luard will add
to his translation some of his own methods and ex-
periences, which I am sure will prove as helpful as
those of the master he has translated. E. A. T.
A GRAM, CROATIA.—The portrait bust
of the King of Montenegro of which
an illustration is given on page 161,
is by Rudolf Valdec (Valdets), one
of the younger professors at the Art Academy
in Zagreb,
as Agram
is called by
the Croatians.
He received
his art train-
ing under Pro-
fessors Eberle
and Kiihne in
Munich. In his
own country
(he is a native
of K ra p i n a
in Croatia)
Valdec has
already gained
fame both
as a portrait-
ist in marble
162
and bronze and in larger works
of sculpture. His bust of
Bishop Strossmayer, a man of
high culture who did much for
art in Croatia and left his fine
collection to his country, merits
special mention as a work
well conceived and admirably
carried out. Another of King
Peter of Servia is also a good
work. Besides these he has also
portrayed the chief statesmen,
politicians, and men of note
in Croatia. In all that he has
done, Prof. Valdec shows earnest
search for the truths of art.
He has been awarded many distinctions for the
works he has exhibited in different lands, and in
his own country he has met with well-deserved
recognition. A. S. L.
CRACOW.—At the home in Cracow of
the family of the late Polish artist
Stanislaw Chlebowski, who was the
court painter of the Sultan Abdul-Aziz,
I found a simple album covered with grey linen,
containing drawings by the Sultan—sketches of
great worth. They are the work of a hand un-
trained but bold. Only some crooked contour-
lines which at first give one the impression of
Turkish writing : some necks of horses and some
uplifted swords, the outline of a rising dust-cloud,
the straight lines of masts and swollen sails ; but
in spite of this simple manner there exists such a
feeling of life and movement, such an understand-