Studio: international art (60.1914)

Roycu Hungarian Arts and Crafts School, Budapest

culum, which now embraces nearly every branch
of decorative art, will in a very short time include
all and everything comprehended in this term.

One of the first steps taken was to appoint
teachers of the new generation, men and women—
for several women-teachers are on the staff—who
are not mere theoreticians but are practical workers,
and another important step was to introduce work-
shops, for Dr. von Czako from the first realised
that to have lasting results theory and practice
must go hand in hand. The aim of the school
is in fact to provide thorough all-round instruction
in the decorative arts and in those subjects which
are allied to them, and the study of the materials
in which the designs are to be executed is an
important factor in the training of the students.

Before dealing with the methods of instruction,
it may be as well to give some detailed information
as to the conditions on which the students, who are
of both sexes, are admitted to the schools. In the
first place, all those applying for admittance must
have passed through the elementary schools, and
must therefore have completed their fourteenth
year. Many of the students, however, have been
through the higher schools. They come from
various parts of Hungary, only one-fourth hailing
from Budapest. The fees are twenty crowns
(i6w 8d.) a year, but casual students are charged
double this amount, the prime interest being in the
students who go in for regular courses of training.
This seems but a small sum, but, small as it is, the
parents are oftentimes unable to pay it. In such

CARTOON FOR A WALL-PAINTING

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BY J. KONRAD (PROF. SANDOR’S CLASS FOR DECORATIVE PAINTING)