Studio: international art (61.1914)

Studio- Talk

seeing on account of the various methods
of manipulation which could be studied
and compared. Of particular interest
on this occasion were the examples of
embroidery and batik work. The re-
vival of these crafts has been remarkable,
and many and various are the uses to
which they are put. The exhibits in
this division were chiefly the work or
the artist-craftswomen, though a few
were by men ; but it must suffice here
to mention names such as Dora Wibiral
and Valerie Petter, Marietta Peyfuss,
Yvonne Brick, Elsa Stiibchen-Kirchner,
Mizzi Friedmann, Emmy Zweybriick,
Rosalie Rothansl, Melitta Loftier, Minka
Podhajska, Fraulein Segenhiiller, and
fruit-stand in polished silver and malachite, designed the Productiv-Genossenschaft formed

by prof. josef hoffmann ; executed by the wiener - , , T • i o I- 1

werkstatte °' Past students at the Imperial schools

for Embroidery. Mention must also be
men. There was scarcely a thing which did not made of the beautiful jewellery and metal-work de-
possess an intrinsic beauty of its own. signed by Hermine Weiss, Leopoldine Konig, Paula

- Guggitz, and Sophie Noske-Sander. A. S. L.

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are to give of portrait of the

° gold bracelet with crystal ornament. designed by hermine weiss ; r

their best. executed by a. heldwein late Cardinal

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represented were Teplitz-Schonau, Znaim and of the Sacred College in Rome, by Count Bar-
Bechyn, where pottery is the special study, and tholomew D. Lippay which is reproduced on page
Haida and Stein-Schonau, which specialise in 156. This artist, who is a Hungarian by birth but
engraving and painting on crystal and
glass. Many objects of real beauty were
the work of the students past and present
of the arts and crafts schools in Vienna,
the exhibits comprising jewellery and
all kinds of metal work, pottery and

porcelain, crystal and other glass, furni- ^^9HH M9 j^fftfr

of all kinds—in .short, everything JKv IB:- ■ HBBjj^^

needed for the decoration of the home 1 ■■■ "~—~

and for personal adornment. A fine <cmit.-^i-i-■ ■;.'--,..-ja 3

sense of proportion and purpose was

everywhere discernible, and thus the J—A
interest of visitors otherwise indifferent „ .a&jM|flBJi

to the value of things artistic was jg[ *__

excited, as was proved by the large I
number of objects disposed of.

polished silver fruit-basket with perl and malachite.
designed by prof. josef hoffmann ; executed by the wiener

The show as a whole was well worth werkstatte
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