Studio: international art (62.1914)

Studio-Talk

PORCELAIN GROUP MODELLED AND PAINTED BY
GERHARDT HENNING
(Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory)

of excellence, and in striving to emulate the master-
pieces of the world, he has yet been able to impress
unmistakably on each piece of work his own
individuality. He is a master of his technique and
his skill in decoration is in no way inferior to his
masterful modelling. The highest achievement of
the craftsman is to govern the material in which he
works, and Gerhardt Henning has accomplished
this in such a way that one cannot imagine that the
clay and the fire can be other than subjected to his
will. A. C.

BRUSSELS.—Since the publication of the
Special Winter numbers of The Studio
of 1900--1 and 1902, respectively devoted
to Modern Pen Drawing and Modern
Etchings, the art of Black and White in Belgium
has achieved a considerable importance. Certain
of the artists whose work was illustrated in those two
volumes have developed or have altered the direc-
tion of their efforts, while others have come
forward bringing new perfections of technique or
novel interpretations of what the great poet Emile
Verhaeren calls the Multiple Stlendeur.

It would be unjust not to refer in the first place
to the important part which has been played in this
remarkable development by the annual Salons
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of L'Estampe, so admirably organised by Robert
Sand. The founding of the lercle bearing this
title has been a happy event for Belgian art, for it
has grouped together the isolated efforts of several
artists of first rank, of whom the public at large was
entirely ignorant, for the reason that in large exhi-
bitions the Black and White section is, as a rule,
relegated to an unimportant position.

The cerrte of L'Estampe maintains an excellent
custom of exhibiting each year, side by side
with the works of its members, the productions
of certain of the masters of the past or of some
of the eminent contemporary foreign artists. This
year two names were inscribed at the head of
the catalogue—J. B. Corot and J. Pennell. The
etched work of Corot is but little known to the
public, yet nevertheless it is equal to his painting—
with which all are familiar—in elegance, in style
and even in colour. It is through the Salons
of L'Estampe that connoisseurs in Brussels have
become acquainted with that great artist Joseph
Pennell. Following upon his series of factories
and great industrial enterprises, and his views
of modern cities, he showed on this occasion
visions of an epic and grandiose archaism.

PORCELAIN GROUP MODELLED AND PAINTED BY
GERHARDT HENNING

(Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory)