DOI issue:
No. 247 (October 1913)
DOI article:Levetus, A. S.: The royal hungarian arts and crafts school in Budapest
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21208#0063
Royal Hungarian Arts and Crafts School, Budapest
there are four professors—D. Gyorgi for the first year,
F. Frischauf-Szablya for the second and third years, and
L. Gyalus and L. von Balogh for the fourth and fifth years.
These teachers all work in unison with one another and
some excellent results have been obtained. The course of
instruction includes
theory and practice,
the instruction
covering all that is
comprehended in the
term interior decora-
tion, furniture and
cabinet - making in-
cluded. Not only
are the students
taught designing
from the simplest
forms to more elabo-
rate ones, but special
stress is laid on con-
struction and work-
manship. The two
designs reproduced on p. 37 were done by a student in Prof,
von Balogh’s class, E. Kerneny, and the design for a garden-
gate (p. 40) is by a student of the same name, a pupil
THREE STUDIES BY PAUL BENCSIK (PROF.
helbing’s CLASS FOR DRAWING)
of decorating them, in the utensils used in daily life,
and in their national dress. They have an innate
feeling for form in design and for the building up of
surface decoration. The women and girls are very
dexterous in the use of the needle and more par-
ticularly in the invention of designs and stitches.
Moreover the recent revival in embroidery and
lace-making has brought in its train the desire for
new designs and new patterns for lace, these designs
being based upon those indigenous to the country.
For the great and laudable desire is to create a
modern and growing decorative art which while
based on the best traditions of the past is in con-
formity with the spirit of our times.
After having satisfactorily passed through the
general course of instruction in drawing and allied
subjects the students enter on the course of special
instruction. Here, again, as already mentioned, the
subjects overlap one another so that it may happen
that a student may attend two or more of the
classes. In the division for interior architecture
title-page for a book, by s. somfai (prof,
helbing’s class)
41
there are four professors—D. Gyorgi for the first year,
F. Frischauf-Szablya for the second and third years, and
L. Gyalus and L. von Balogh for the fourth and fifth years.
These teachers all work in unison with one another and
some excellent results have been obtained. The course of
instruction includes
theory and practice,
the instruction
covering all that is
comprehended in the
term interior decora-
tion, furniture and
cabinet - making in-
cluded. Not only
are the students
taught designing
from the simplest
forms to more elabo-
rate ones, but special
stress is laid on con-
struction and work-
manship. The two
designs reproduced on p. 37 were done by a student in Prof,
von Balogh’s class, E. Kerneny, and the design for a garden-
gate (p. 40) is by a student of the same name, a pupil
THREE STUDIES BY PAUL BENCSIK (PROF.
helbing’s CLASS FOR DRAWING)
of decorating them, in the utensils used in daily life,
and in their national dress. They have an innate
feeling for form in design and for the building up of
surface decoration. The women and girls are very
dexterous in the use of the needle and more par-
ticularly in the invention of designs and stitches.
Moreover the recent revival in embroidery and
lace-making has brought in its train the desire for
new designs and new patterns for lace, these designs
being based upon those indigenous to the country.
For the great and laudable desire is to create a
modern and growing decorative art which while
based on the best traditions of the past is in con-
formity with the spirit of our times.
After having satisfactorily passed through the
general course of instruction in drawing and allied
subjects the students enter on the course of special
instruction. Here, again, as already mentioned, the
subjects overlap one another so that it may happen
that a student may attend two or more of the
classes. In the division for interior architecture
title-page for a book, by s. somfai (prof,
helbing’s class)
41