DOI Heft:
No. 262 (January 1915)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0310
Studio- Talk
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decorative painting (' Deu Norske Husflidsforening, Christiania) by gerhard munthe
the tedium of many idle hours, and further it trains cushions for instance, more modern and personal
and elevates the taste of its co-workers by means lines have been adopted. In these, as in the
of lectures, classes, designs, &c. To its success furniture, there often is a certain bold, yet contained
in the former direction many grateful and touching unconventionalism which may prove the fore-
testimonies bear witness, and with regard to the runner of a more pronounced modern northern
latter let it suffice to say that the foremost artists style, and one of the features of this is likely to be
in Norway have been proud to be counted amongst the absence of that effeminateness which occa-
the labourers in Den Norske Husflidsforening's sionally detracts from the value of kindred efforts
vineyard. _ elsewhere—an evolution entirely in harmony with
national character and taste.
The society, in addition, has a clever staff of its -
own, which designs both textile work, more or less The furniture designed by Mr. Mathias Enge,
ambitious, furniture, &c. It is more especially in however, still retains many traits peculiar to the
the former, in the decorative weavings, that more work of rural craftsmen of former days. Birch has
or less ancient Norse traditions make themselves made for itself many friends amongst Scandinavian
felt almost invariably with the most satisfactory designers of furniture, M. Agathon amongst them,
decorative results. In the smaller items, in the and when properly treated it is often possessed of
decorative tainting
(Den Norske Husflidsforening)
by gerhard munthe
3°7
tiki.
1 i »H
decorative painting (' Deu Norske Husflidsforening, Christiania) by gerhard munthe
the tedium of many idle hours, and further it trains cushions for instance, more modern and personal
and elevates the taste of its co-workers by means lines have been adopted. In these, as in the
of lectures, classes, designs, &c. To its success furniture, there often is a certain bold, yet contained
in the former direction many grateful and touching unconventionalism which may prove the fore-
testimonies bear witness, and with regard to the runner of a more pronounced modern northern
latter let it suffice to say that the foremost artists style, and one of the features of this is likely to be
in Norway have been proud to be counted amongst the absence of that effeminateness which occa-
the labourers in Den Norske Husflidsforening's sionally detracts from the value of kindred efforts
vineyard. _ elsewhere—an evolution entirely in harmony with
national character and taste.
The society, in addition, has a clever staff of its -
own, which designs both textile work, more or less The furniture designed by Mr. Mathias Enge,
ambitious, furniture, &c. It is more especially in however, still retains many traits peculiar to the
the former, in the decorative weavings, that more work of rural craftsmen of former days. Birch has
or less ancient Norse traditions make themselves made for itself many friends amongst Scandinavian
felt almost invariably with the most satisfactory designers of furniture, M. Agathon amongst them,
decorative results. In the smaller items, in the and when properly treated it is often possessed of
decorative tainting
(Den Norske Husflidsforening)
by gerhard munthe
3°7