Studio: international art (60.1914)

Royal Hungarian Arts and Crafts Sc hoot, Budapest

DESIGN FOR A GARDEN GATE. BY A. KEMENY (PROF. BENCZUR’S CLASS FOR

DESIGN)

special subjects overlap
one another, but the
grounding in all is fully
comprehensive, and the
students are given every
opportunity to choose for
themselves which line of
art they desire to specialise
in. The staff consists of
the Director and seven-
teen teachers of both
sexes and a number of
experts in the practice of
applied art.

It must be borne in
mind, in considering the
nature of the designs and
the teaching methods fol-
lowed in these schools,
that Hungary is essentially
a country with a living
peasant art, that from
their earliest infancy many
of the students, and more

ence and other business subjects, these classes
being among Dr. von Czako’s innovations. Every
opportunity is given for the
students to equip them-
selves for their future
careers; they easily find
employment in industries
connected with art or as
assistants to architects,
while many of them estab-
lish themselves as decora-
tive artists; but as art
industries are at present
little developed in Hun-
gary, a large contingent
finds employment in
foreign countries.

The courses are divided
into general and special,
and naturally students
must first attend the former
or give proof of their quali-
fication to enter the special
courses. In all cases they
must attend the classes in
figure drawing and orna-
mental design, no matter
what special subject they
take up. Often these

especially those coming
from the provinces, have been accustomed to see
it around them in their homes, alike in the manner

MAJOLICA BONBONNIERES, INKSTAND, CANDLESTICK, AND MATCH-HOLDER.
T. FARY (PROF. SIMAY AND E. SCHLEICH’S CLASS)

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