DOI Heft:
No. 254 (June 1914)
DOI Artikel:Bröchner, Georg: A Norwegian sculptor: Stephan Sinding
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0039
Steplian
"THE JOY OF LIFE" BY STEPHAN SINDING.
sweeping down the mountain, the fierce, joyous
anticipation of battle speeding her furious steed.
For this purpose the artist took a studio in the
Boulevard de Raspail, halfway up the hill, where
with the aid of a telescope he could from his
window study the horses going downhill, and he
spent hour after hour observing these unconscious
models. One day six powerful Normandy stallions
had pulled up close to Sinding's window, when
suddenly one of them became restive, giving Sinding
an opportunity of modelling there and then from
life the bared teeth, the drawn-up upper lip, and the
whole peculiar expression of the horse.
Several of Stephan Sinding's most important
works, among them Man and Woman and the
Walkiire, have already been reproduced in this
magazine. The former is probably Sinding's best
known work. That, too, attained its consummation
•only after much futile sketching and modelling. The
problem of rendering man and woman wrapt in
love, of rendering them in the beauty of natural
love, equally^far removed from sickly sentimentality
and offensive sensualism, has always intensely
interested Sinding, and he has varied the concep-
tion of this motif in several works.
Sinding
The Baj-barian Mother was Sinding's first great
work—the most important milestone, I suppose, in
his career as an artist (Rome 1882), as Man and
Woman was the second. The former, on the face
of it, is much more northern in spirit, but neverthe-
less it also shows traces of Sinding's sojourn in
France, as well as of his Teutonic studies.
Sinding's artistic imagination, always sustained
by his creative power, spans over a wide field ; at
the one pole The Eldest of Her Kin, at the other
The Joy of Life. The former has run her race ; life's
wear and tear have told their tale, and, with the
wisdom of many years enshrined in her mind, she
serenely awaits the end; and then the contrast,
the young maiden, her whole body singing out her
joy of life, her open arms ready to welcome all the
happiness it has in store for her.
The fine monument, reproduced among our illus-
trations (p. 20) is by no means the only one from
Sinding's hand ; it is possessed of great plastic
beauty and destined, I believe, to carry its maker's
fame to some distant isle over the sea.
"THE BARBARIAN MOTHER" BY STEPHAN SINDING
J9
"THE JOY OF LIFE" BY STEPHAN SINDING.
sweeping down the mountain, the fierce, joyous
anticipation of battle speeding her furious steed.
For this purpose the artist took a studio in the
Boulevard de Raspail, halfway up the hill, where
with the aid of a telescope he could from his
window study the horses going downhill, and he
spent hour after hour observing these unconscious
models. One day six powerful Normandy stallions
had pulled up close to Sinding's window, when
suddenly one of them became restive, giving Sinding
an opportunity of modelling there and then from
life the bared teeth, the drawn-up upper lip, and the
whole peculiar expression of the horse.
Several of Stephan Sinding's most important
works, among them Man and Woman and the
Walkiire, have already been reproduced in this
magazine. The former is probably Sinding's best
known work. That, too, attained its consummation
•only after much futile sketching and modelling. The
problem of rendering man and woman wrapt in
love, of rendering them in the beauty of natural
love, equally^far removed from sickly sentimentality
and offensive sensualism, has always intensely
interested Sinding, and he has varied the concep-
tion of this motif in several works.
Sinding
The Baj-barian Mother was Sinding's first great
work—the most important milestone, I suppose, in
his career as an artist (Rome 1882), as Man and
Woman was the second. The former, on the face
of it, is much more northern in spirit, but neverthe-
less it also shows traces of Sinding's sojourn in
France, as well as of his Teutonic studies.
Sinding's artistic imagination, always sustained
by his creative power, spans over a wide field ; at
the one pole The Eldest of Her Kin, at the other
The Joy of Life. The former has run her race ; life's
wear and tear have told their tale, and, with the
wisdom of many years enshrined in her mind, she
serenely awaits the end; and then the contrast,
the young maiden, her whole body singing out her
joy of life, her open arms ready to welcome all the
happiness it has in store for her.
The fine monument, reproduced among our illus-
trations (p. 20) is by no means the only one from
Sinding's hand ; it is possessed of great plastic
beauty and destined, I believe, to carry its maker's
fame to some distant isle over the sea.
"THE BARBARIAN MOTHER" BY STEPHAN SINDING
J9