DOI issue:
No. 251 (March 1914)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21209#0157
Studio- Talk
to issue from an unusually beautiful portrait entitled the ingredients of melancholy and grotesqueness so
Nanna by Anselm Feuerbach, and some male rare to-day. One saw landscapes of the Salvator
portraits by Sir Hubert von Herkomer afforded Rosa style, glimpses of life in monasteries, guard-
pleasure by their naturalness and dignity. Hans rooms, taverns, and among fishermen and street-
Beatus Wieland manifested a deepfelt love for singers which recalled Goya, Daumier, and Hogarth,
snowy Alpine regions, where he has discovered There was nervous vibration as in Tiepolo, and
intimate beauties amidst peaks and glaciers and enticing tonalities sparkled forth from a mysterious
encountered strange figures of solitary wanderers. chiaroscuro. A closer study, however, revealed
Paul Paeschke, the clever and delicate etcher, defects, especially in the drawing ; nevertheless one
evoked surprise also as a painter of actualities who felt grateful for the discovery of an artist who was
has learned to appreciate the beauty of deep colour- a spiritual and veracious chronicler of the world in
harmonies. The sculptor Georg Schreyogg stood which he lived. _ J. J.
out as a realist who seeks for expressive form and
has well grasped the teachings of ancient art. A serious gap in the ranks of German sculptors
- has been left by the death of Ignatius Taschner,
Paul Cassirer had a surprise in store for the who died at the end of November last at the little
connoisseurs of old art with his comprehensive village near Dachau in Bavaria where he had but
exhibition of the works of Alessandro Magnasco, lately built himself a house. He was only forty-two,
the Genoese painter-monk of baroque times. This but in the course of this all too brief lifetime had
interesting brushman, but little known heretofore proved himself an artist of marked individuality and
even among experts, gave the impression at first of unusual versatility ; for besides sculpture, which
sight of possessing quite unusual talent. One felt, became his principal vocation, he had practised as
as it were, flooded by a breath of passion and by a wood-carver, etcher, painter, potter, and as a
"WANDERING MONKS "
i52
(Sc/iulte's Salon, Berlin )
BY HANS BEATUS WIELAND
to issue from an unusually beautiful portrait entitled the ingredients of melancholy and grotesqueness so
Nanna by Anselm Feuerbach, and some male rare to-day. One saw landscapes of the Salvator
portraits by Sir Hubert von Herkomer afforded Rosa style, glimpses of life in monasteries, guard-
pleasure by their naturalness and dignity. Hans rooms, taverns, and among fishermen and street-
Beatus Wieland manifested a deepfelt love for singers which recalled Goya, Daumier, and Hogarth,
snowy Alpine regions, where he has discovered There was nervous vibration as in Tiepolo, and
intimate beauties amidst peaks and glaciers and enticing tonalities sparkled forth from a mysterious
encountered strange figures of solitary wanderers. chiaroscuro. A closer study, however, revealed
Paul Paeschke, the clever and delicate etcher, defects, especially in the drawing ; nevertheless one
evoked surprise also as a painter of actualities who felt grateful for the discovery of an artist who was
has learned to appreciate the beauty of deep colour- a spiritual and veracious chronicler of the world in
harmonies. The sculptor Georg Schreyogg stood which he lived. _ J. J.
out as a realist who seeks for expressive form and
has well grasped the teachings of ancient art. A serious gap in the ranks of German sculptors
- has been left by the death of Ignatius Taschner,
Paul Cassirer had a surprise in store for the who died at the end of November last at the little
connoisseurs of old art with his comprehensive village near Dachau in Bavaria where he had but
exhibition of the works of Alessandro Magnasco, lately built himself a house. He was only forty-two,
the Genoese painter-monk of baroque times. This but in the course of this all too brief lifetime had
interesting brushman, but little known heretofore proved himself an artist of marked individuality and
even among experts, gave the impression at first of unusual versatility ; for besides sculpture, which
sight of possessing quite unusual talent. One felt, became his principal vocation, he had practised as
as it were, flooded by a breath of passion and by a wood-carver, etcher, painter, potter, and as a
"WANDERING MONKS "
i52
(Sc/iulte's Salon, Berlin )
BY HANS BEATUS WIELAND