DOI Heft:
No. 242 (May 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0356
Studio-Talk
varied and taken from the different countries in
which this artist spent so great a part of his life.
He was well known in art circles in Paris and
London, for he had gained honours there as well
as in his own country, Hungary. It was in 1887
that his Quartette, a group consisting of Joachim,
Strauss, Piatti and Ries, won him success at the
Academy, and he became a much talked about
man. The following year his Honieless was one of
the chief features at the Academy exhibition.
Bruck spent eight years in London, andhis sojourn
was very successful. In Paris he was awarded
medals and other honours. His work is to be seen
in various public galleries and private collections in
Europe and America. During the last years of his
life he resided in Budapest, and visited the most
remote parts of Hungary for subjects ; he was, in
fact, one of the first to show what a rich and varied
field this country is for the artist. The exhibition
was a surprising one, for though the Hungarians
were aware that they had in Bruck an artist of un-
questionably great talent, still, as he rarely ex-
hibited they had little knowledge of the extent
of his field of work, though the general high quality
of it was always rightly estimated. Munkacsy was
the first to recognise this, and it was he who
launched him on his career as an artist. This was
in Venice, whither Bruck had gone after passing
through the Budapest schools and the Vienna
Imperial Academy.
Lajos Bruck was an artist of fine sentiment and
imagination and had that rare gift of investing his
subject with his own personal touch, translating it
as it were into his own language. He was particu-
larly successful in depicting the bustling activity of
a market-place and always managed to portray its
atmospheric and other characteristics. He also
painted numerous pictures of interiors with figures,
and here too the same intimate treatment is dis-
cernible. Bruck's work reveals the spirit of a true
artist, a poetic temperament, sound technical ability
and independence of methods. There is a total
■"SPRING LANDSCAPE"
BY LAJOS BRUCK
333
varied and taken from the different countries in
which this artist spent so great a part of his life.
He was well known in art circles in Paris and
London, for he had gained honours there as well
as in his own country, Hungary. It was in 1887
that his Quartette, a group consisting of Joachim,
Strauss, Piatti and Ries, won him success at the
Academy, and he became a much talked about
man. The following year his Honieless was one of
the chief features at the Academy exhibition.
Bruck spent eight years in London, andhis sojourn
was very successful. In Paris he was awarded
medals and other honours. His work is to be seen
in various public galleries and private collections in
Europe and America. During the last years of his
life he resided in Budapest, and visited the most
remote parts of Hungary for subjects ; he was, in
fact, one of the first to show what a rich and varied
field this country is for the artist. The exhibition
was a surprising one, for though the Hungarians
were aware that they had in Bruck an artist of un-
questionably great talent, still, as he rarely ex-
hibited they had little knowledge of the extent
of his field of work, though the general high quality
of it was always rightly estimated. Munkacsy was
the first to recognise this, and it was he who
launched him on his career as an artist. This was
in Venice, whither Bruck had gone after passing
through the Budapest schools and the Vienna
Imperial Academy.
Lajos Bruck was an artist of fine sentiment and
imagination and had that rare gift of investing his
subject with his own personal touch, translating it
as it were into his own language. He was particu-
larly successful in depicting the bustling activity of
a market-place and always managed to portray its
atmospheric and other characteristics. He also
painted numerous pictures of interiors with figures,
and here too the same intimate treatment is dis-
cernible. Bruck's work reveals the spirit of a true
artist, a poetic temperament, sound technical ability
and independence of methods. There is a total
■"SPRING LANDSCAPE"
BY LAJOS BRUCK
333