DOI issue:
No. 253 (May 1914)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21209#0329
Studio- Talk
side of the black, white and red boundary posts. In Americans, Karl Schurz, Emil Praetorius and Karl
a critical age such as the present and having regard Daenzer. This monument, called The Naked Truth,
to the unfavourable conditions to which formative was for a long time the subject of public discussion
art and especially plastic art, is subject—this is and both among artists and the general public gave
a matter that should be specially emphasized. In rise to a heated controversy—in fact it was only
many of the larger cities of through the energetic advocacy
Germany works by Prof. of its champions and the per-
Wandschneider are to be _________ sistence of the committee in
found occupying conspicuous charge of the awards that
positions in public places. In BT'^___ Prof. Wandschneider's design
Berlin itself his monument to _M^__I was ultimately adopted. As
Werner Siemens the distin- an illustration of it is here
guished inventor, stands in given it is unnecessary to corn-
front of the Technical High ment on it in detail. Prof.
School, and at the Tier- Wandschneider is by no means
garten of the Imperial JR a stranger to the English pub-
capital there is another fine lie. Several of his works—
example of his work in the ML c^Ri, i among them the Beatrice here
shape of a life-sized nude BHEMlfo'^flfWi illustrated—have appeared in
figure of a youth holding a the exhibitions of the Royal
wreath, the symbol of victory, Academy in London and at-
in his hand. This work, of tracted much attention.
which a reproduction is here f f -
given, was purchased by the Perfect freedom to express
Kaiser at the great Berlin himself in his own way—this
Art Exhibition of 1906 and is what Prof. Wandschneider
by his Majesty's command aims at above all else. He is
was placed in the Tiergarten. an indefatigable worker and
Dortmund has a monument inexhaustible in his fund of
to the Emperor Frederick 'I artistic ideas. At the present
designed by Prof. Wand- moment he is busy with the
Schneider, who won the first carrying out of a large work,
prize in the open competition and again he is participating
and again in the limited com- in a competition which calls
petition for the monument; for all the resources of a man
he is worthily represented in of energy. The various works
Schwerin by a monument to of his which are here illus-
the Grand Duke Frederick trated, sufficiently demonstrate
Francis III, and in numerous the capacity of this versatile
other places by kindred iia&l artist both for monumental
works. _ works of imposing proportions
hermes portrait bust, by prof. anci for undertakings of a
a _ , , , wilhelm wandschneider , . , ... „ ...
Among works executed by smaller kind. W. E. W.
Prof. Wandschneider for -
a foreign destination, two in particular call for At the Gurlitt Salon an interesting selection of
mention. One is a monument to Barclay de Tolly paintings and sculpture was offered during March
at Riga, the Baltic seaport. It is a bronze statue —mostly the work of younger artists full of ardent
nearly twenty feet high on a granite pedestal, and emotion whose strivings already appear to give
the general effect is very impressive. The sculptor evidence of style. The group of works represent-
sent in three designs for this competition and was ing the sculptor Richard Langer showed that he
awarded the three first prizes for them. The other has been influenced by Minne and Maillol, which
of the two monuments is one which has been set up means that he works with Gothic veracity and
in St. Louis, the capital of the State of Missouri in sensibility. Some heads by Kuldiansky impressed
America, in honour of the three celebrated German- one by their communicative power and by an
322
side of the black, white and red boundary posts. In Americans, Karl Schurz, Emil Praetorius and Karl
a critical age such as the present and having regard Daenzer. This monument, called The Naked Truth,
to the unfavourable conditions to which formative was for a long time the subject of public discussion
art and especially plastic art, is subject—this is and both among artists and the general public gave
a matter that should be specially emphasized. In rise to a heated controversy—in fact it was only
many of the larger cities of through the energetic advocacy
Germany works by Prof. of its champions and the per-
Wandschneider are to be _________ sistence of the committee in
found occupying conspicuous charge of the awards that
positions in public places. In BT'^___ Prof. Wandschneider's design
Berlin itself his monument to _M^__I was ultimately adopted. As
Werner Siemens the distin- an illustration of it is here
guished inventor, stands in given it is unnecessary to corn-
front of the Technical High ment on it in detail. Prof.
School, and at the Tier- Wandschneider is by no means
garten of the Imperial JR a stranger to the English pub-
capital there is another fine lie. Several of his works—
example of his work in the ML c^Ri, i among them the Beatrice here
shape of a life-sized nude BHEMlfo'^flfWi illustrated—have appeared in
figure of a youth holding a the exhibitions of the Royal
wreath, the symbol of victory, Academy in London and at-
in his hand. This work, of tracted much attention.
which a reproduction is here f f -
given, was purchased by the Perfect freedom to express
Kaiser at the great Berlin himself in his own way—this
Art Exhibition of 1906 and is what Prof. Wandschneider
by his Majesty's command aims at above all else. He is
was placed in the Tiergarten. an indefatigable worker and
Dortmund has a monument inexhaustible in his fund of
to the Emperor Frederick 'I artistic ideas. At the present
designed by Prof. Wand- moment he is busy with the
Schneider, who won the first carrying out of a large work,
prize in the open competition and again he is participating
and again in the limited com- in a competition which calls
petition for the monument; for all the resources of a man
he is worthily represented in of energy. The various works
Schwerin by a monument to of his which are here illus-
the Grand Duke Frederick trated, sufficiently demonstrate
Francis III, and in numerous the capacity of this versatile
other places by kindred iia&l artist both for monumental
works. _ works of imposing proportions
hermes portrait bust, by prof. anci for undertakings of a
a _ , , , wilhelm wandschneider , . , ... „ ...
Among works executed by smaller kind. W. E. W.
Prof. Wandschneider for -
a foreign destination, two in particular call for At the Gurlitt Salon an interesting selection of
mention. One is a monument to Barclay de Tolly paintings and sculpture was offered during March
at Riga, the Baltic seaport. It is a bronze statue —mostly the work of younger artists full of ardent
nearly twenty feet high on a granite pedestal, and emotion whose strivings already appear to give
the general effect is very impressive. The sculptor evidence of style. The group of works represent-
sent in three designs for this competition and was ing the sculptor Richard Langer showed that he
awarded the three first prizes for them. The other has been influenced by Minne and Maillol, which
of the two monuments is one which has been set up means that he works with Gothic veracity and
in St. Louis, the capital of the State of Missouri in sensibility. Some heads by Kuldiansky impressed
America, in honour of the three celebrated German- one by their communicative power and by an
322