DOI Heft:
No. 237 (December 1912)
DOI Artikel:Levetus, A. S.: A Viennese exhibition of arts and crafts
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0247
A Viennese Exhibition of Arts and Crafts
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WOVEN CUSHION COVER DESIGNED BY FRI..
OSTERREICHER, EXECUTED BY HERRBURGER
AND RHOMBERG
much beauty of design and colour and clever
workmanship, most of the stitching having been
done by the designers themselves; and among
the artists contributing were Frau Melitta Loffler,
Helene Geiringer, Hedwig Poliak, Hermine Weiss,
Milla Weltmann, and the members of a society
formed of past students of the Imperial School of
Embroidery (Genossenschaft der Absolventinnen
der K.K. Kunststickerei-Schule).
Weaving is another subject which is drawing the
attention of the artists of both sexes. The Imperial
arms woven in gold, silver, and silk by Frau Sretna
Vrankovic on an ancient Dalmatian hand-loom
and other fabrics were beautifully executed, both
sides alike, and excellent also were some curtains
woven on the same primitive stool.
Batik is also becoming more and more popular
with women artists, some excellent work being
done in this direction by Dora Wibrial, Dorothea
Seligmuller, Elsa Stiibchen-Kirschner, and Valerie
Petter.
Some good achievements were perceptible in
textiles, many leading artists contributing to this
branch of art, among them Profs. Hoffmann and
Otto Prutscher, Frau Peller-Hollmann, Fraulein
Osterreicher and Remigius Geyling.
In jewellery and enamelling much inventive
power has been shown and some good results
obtained. Many women artists have made a
speciality of designing jewellery, notable among
them being Sofie Sander, whose career has been
a very remarkable one. She has served an ap-
prenticeship to a goldsmith, worked in a Paris
workshop, studied all ancient methods, with the
result that she has made a name for herself on the
Continent as an expert in classifying ancient
jewellery. She has lately been called to Holland
and is now a teacher in the State Arts and Crafts
School for metal-work and jewellery in Haarlem.
The spirit of the true workman is revealed in all her
work and was also observable in the jewellery and
bijouterie exhibited by Fraulein von Stark, Mar-
garete l’Allemand, Louise von Kalmar, Leopoldine
Konig, Hans Bolek, Alfred Sachs, and other
artists.
It is impossible to detail all the different materials
including tooled and other leather-work, note-paper,
labels, menus, &c., to which the artists have turned
their attention. Their work showed no lack of the
inventive faculty, and was intelligently done.
A few words must be said regarding the models
of villas and other dwelling-houses designed by
Prof. Hoffmann, Hartwig Fischel, Alfred Keller,
Robert Orley, Freiherr von Krauss, and other
CERAMIC FIGURE. DESIGNED BY FRANK SCHLEISS, EXE-
CUTED AT THE GMUNDENER KERAMIK-WERKSTATTE
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WOVEN CUSHION COVER DESIGNED BY FRI..
OSTERREICHER, EXECUTED BY HERRBURGER
AND RHOMBERG
much beauty of design and colour and clever
workmanship, most of the stitching having been
done by the designers themselves; and among
the artists contributing were Frau Melitta Loffler,
Helene Geiringer, Hedwig Poliak, Hermine Weiss,
Milla Weltmann, and the members of a society
formed of past students of the Imperial School of
Embroidery (Genossenschaft der Absolventinnen
der K.K. Kunststickerei-Schule).
Weaving is another subject which is drawing the
attention of the artists of both sexes. The Imperial
arms woven in gold, silver, and silk by Frau Sretna
Vrankovic on an ancient Dalmatian hand-loom
and other fabrics were beautifully executed, both
sides alike, and excellent also were some curtains
woven on the same primitive stool.
Batik is also becoming more and more popular
with women artists, some excellent work being
done in this direction by Dora Wibrial, Dorothea
Seligmuller, Elsa Stiibchen-Kirschner, and Valerie
Petter.
Some good achievements were perceptible in
textiles, many leading artists contributing to this
branch of art, among them Profs. Hoffmann and
Otto Prutscher, Frau Peller-Hollmann, Fraulein
Osterreicher and Remigius Geyling.
In jewellery and enamelling much inventive
power has been shown and some good results
obtained. Many women artists have made a
speciality of designing jewellery, notable among
them being Sofie Sander, whose career has been
a very remarkable one. She has served an ap-
prenticeship to a goldsmith, worked in a Paris
workshop, studied all ancient methods, with the
result that she has made a name for herself on the
Continent as an expert in classifying ancient
jewellery. She has lately been called to Holland
and is now a teacher in the State Arts and Crafts
School for metal-work and jewellery in Haarlem.
The spirit of the true workman is revealed in all her
work and was also observable in the jewellery and
bijouterie exhibited by Fraulein von Stark, Mar-
garete l’Allemand, Louise von Kalmar, Leopoldine
Konig, Hans Bolek, Alfred Sachs, and other
artists.
It is impossible to detail all the different materials
including tooled and other leather-work, note-paper,
labels, menus, &c., to which the artists have turned
their attention. Their work showed no lack of the
inventive faculty, and was intelligently done.
A few words must be said regarding the models
of villas and other dwelling-houses designed by
Prof. Hoffmann, Hartwig Fischel, Alfred Keller,
Robert Orley, Freiherr von Krauss, and other
CERAMIC FIGURE. DESIGNED BY FRANK SCHLEISS, EXE-
CUTED AT THE GMUNDENER KERAMIK-WERKSTATTE
225