DOI Heft:
No. 259 (October 1914)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0054
Studio- Talk
without which we should most certainly have
known what it is to have a hostile army in our
midst, and worse even than that, might have
quickly found ourselves on the verge of starvation
through the cutting off of supplies.
a membership comprising artists of all ranks, would
do well to pay heed to German propagandist
methods, and if only an energetic campaign is
prosecuted there should be a good time for British
art in the future.
A suggestion made by the art critic of "The Mr. Wm. Chase's Portrait of Miss C, repro-
Globe" that the methods which Germany and duced on page 46, and In the Dressing Room,
Austria have used to widen the market for their by Mr. L. Kronberg, reproduced below, should
artistic productions and to secure a public for have been included with the illustrations to the
their manufactures is well worth our study and article on "American Art at the Anglo-American
well worth adapting to our particular needs will, it Exposition " which appeared in our last issue, but
is hoped, not pass unheeded. He refers, of course, had to be omitted owing to a delay in hearing
more particularly to the applied or industrial arts from the artists. We are now glad to make
in which those countries have made very great good the omission, these two works being among
progress during the past dozen years or so. the items of note in the interesting assemblage of
Thoroughness has always been the keynote of pictures at the Exposition.
German organisation, and
the campaign on behalf of
its " Kunstgewerbe" has
been very carefully planned,
no expense being spared to
ensure its efficiency. But
this organising capacity of
our enemy has not been
confined to industrial art;
for many years past there
has been in existence an
influential organisation—
the Allgemeine Deutsche
Ktinstlergenoss en s c h a f t—
which has branches in all
the principal art centres and
keeps a sharp eye on the
interests of German artists ;
and since 1907 another
society — the Gesellschaft
fur Deutsche Kunst im
Ausland—has been taking
active steps to further by
various means the exploita-
tion ot German art of all
denominations in foreign
countries. With this organi-
sation, which has its head-
quarters in Berlin, most of
the important art societies
of the Fatherland are
affiliated, and during the
past three or four years it
has directed its attention
more especially to the
western hemisphere. The << r„ „
F IN THE DRESSING-ROOM" BY L. KRONBERG
Imperial Arts League, With (Anglo-American Ex-position, Shepherd's Bush)
49
without which we should most certainly have
known what it is to have a hostile army in our
midst, and worse even than that, might have
quickly found ourselves on the verge of starvation
through the cutting off of supplies.
a membership comprising artists of all ranks, would
do well to pay heed to German propagandist
methods, and if only an energetic campaign is
prosecuted there should be a good time for British
art in the future.
A suggestion made by the art critic of "The Mr. Wm. Chase's Portrait of Miss C, repro-
Globe" that the methods which Germany and duced on page 46, and In the Dressing Room,
Austria have used to widen the market for their by Mr. L. Kronberg, reproduced below, should
artistic productions and to secure a public for have been included with the illustrations to the
their manufactures is well worth our study and article on "American Art at the Anglo-American
well worth adapting to our particular needs will, it Exposition " which appeared in our last issue, but
is hoped, not pass unheeded. He refers, of course, had to be omitted owing to a delay in hearing
more particularly to the applied or industrial arts from the artists. We are now glad to make
in which those countries have made very great good the omission, these two works being among
progress during the past dozen years or so. the items of note in the interesting assemblage of
Thoroughness has always been the keynote of pictures at the Exposition.
German organisation, and
the campaign on behalf of
its " Kunstgewerbe" has
been very carefully planned,
no expense being spared to
ensure its efficiency. But
this organising capacity of
our enemy has not been
confined to industrial art;
for many years past there
has been in existence an
influential organisation—
the Allgemeine Deutsche
Ktinstlergenoss en s c h a f t—
which has branches in all
the principal art centres and
keeps a sharp eye on the
interests of German artists ;
and since 1907 another
society — the Gesellschaft
fur Deutsche Kunst im
Ausland—has been taking
active steps to further by
various means the exploita-
tion ot German art of all
denominations in foreign
countries. With this organi-
sation, which has its head-
quarters in Berlin, most of
the important art societies
of the Fatherland are
affiliated, and during the
past three or four years it
has directed its attention
more especially to the
western hemisphere. The << r„ „
F IN THE DRESSING-ROOM" BY L. KRONBERG
Imperial Arts League, With (Anglo-American Ex-position, Shepherd's Bush)
49