DOI Heft:
No. 262 (January 1915)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0311
Studio- Talk
EMBROIDERED CUSHION. DESIGNED BY AI.F. LINDEBYE
(Den Norske HusjUdsforening, Christiania)
a festive, lustrous tone. The cover of the furniture
designed by the architect just mentioned, marks
another revival, inasmuch as hand-woven, small-
patterned material is coming into favour. As a rule
old-time patterns are closely followed if not
absolutely copied ; there is a trusty homeliness over
these hand-woven materials and they have the
additional virtue of being most durable.
Mme. Ulrikka Greve has earned for herself a
widespread and excellent reputation for her large,
decorative gobelins as well as smaller weavings,
and museums have vied with private collectors in
securing them. Mme. Greve sometimes chooses for
her tapestries old subjects which lend themselves
to her purpose, but more often the design is
modern without, however, in any way violating the
canons of the art of time-honoured gobelins. As
an example of the former her exceedingly handsome
Vm de Stub Lian at the Jubilee Exhibition may be
mentioned; to the latter Gerhard Muni he and
others have supplied admirable cartoons, to which
Mme. Greve and her skilful assistants have done
the fullest justice. Both in design and in subtle,
effective colouring these modern gobelins will, I
feel sure, hold their own against their much-
treasured and heavily-priced prototypes, especially
when time has further beautified them with that
patience which she alone can bestow.
Several Norwegian artists have devoted a con-
siderable amount of attention to decorative work,
which, though no doubt without aiming at it in all its
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aspects has not a little in common with the gobelin-
covered wall. It is a question of printed friezes
or wall-sections, a mode of embellishing the home
which to my knowledge is but little used elsewhere.
Amongst artists who have done most meritorious
work in this direction Erick Werenskiold holds a
place by himself through his highly decorative
frieze in Frithiof Nansen's dining-room, but even
he must yield to Gerhard Munthe, who not only,
if I mistake not, is a pioneer in this field of decora-
tive art, but whose pronounced artistic personality
lends itself in a happy spontaneous manner to
work of this description. The manner in which
this highly interesting painter has perpetuated and
consummated old Norwegian traditions is well
known, but Munthe, who has his own individual
views of style and the uses to which the style of a
period should be put, is a painter with the creative
imagination of a poet. He has evolved, so to
speak, a fairy world of his own ; much of his work
constitutes fairy tales, which are " Bilder ohne
Worte," quaint, impressive and most decorative,
both in composition and colour.
TRANSPARENT HANGING. DESIGNED BY HELGA
WINDINGSTAD ', WOVEN BY ELISABETH MATHIASEN
(Den Arorsfce Husflidsforening)
EMBROIDERED CUSHION. DESIGNED BY AI.F. LINDEBYE
(Den Norske HusjUdsforening, Christiania)
a festive, lustrous tone. The cover of the furniture
designed by the architect just mentioned, marks
another revival, inasmuch as hand-woven, small-
patterned material is coming into favour. As a rule
old-time patterns are closely followed if not
absolutely copied ; there is a trusty homeliness over
these hand-woven materials and they have the
additional virtue of being most durable.
Mme. Ulrikka Greve has earned for herself a
widespread and excellent reputation for her large,
decorative gobelins as well as smaller weavings,
and museums have vied with private collectors in
securing them. Mme. Greve sometimes chooses for
her tapestries old subjects which lend themselves
to her purpose, but more often the design is
modern without, however, in any way violating the
canons of the art of time-honoured gobelins. As
an example of the former her exceedingly handsome
Vm de Stub Lian at the Jubilee Exhibition may be
mentioned; to the latter Gerhard Muni he and
others have supplied admirable cartoons, to which
Mme. Greve and her skilful assistants have done
the fullest justice. Both in design and in subtle,
effective colouring these modern gobelins will, I
feel sure, hold their own against their much-
treasured and heavily-priced prototypes, especially
when time has further beautified them with that
patience which she alone can bestow.
Several Norwegian artists have devoted a con-
siderable amount of attention to decorative work,
which, though no doubt without aiming at it in all its
308
aspects has not a little in common with the gobelin-
covered wall. It is a question of printed friezes
or wall-sections, a mode of embellishing the home
which to my knowledge is but little used elsewhere.
Amongst artists who have done most meritorious
work in this direction Erick Werenskiold holds a
place by himself through his highly decorative
frieze in Frithiof Nansen's dining-room, but even
he must yield to Gerhard Munthe, who not only,
if I mistake not, is a pioneer in this field of decora-
tive art, but whose pronounced artistic personality
lends itself in a happy spontaneous manner to
work of this description. The manner in which
this highly interesting painter has perpetuated and
consummated old Norwegian traditions is well
known, but Munthe, who has his own individual
views of style and the uses to which the style of a
period should be put, is a painter with the creative
imagination of a poet. He has evolved, so to
speak, a fairy world of his own ; much of his work
constitutes fairy tales, which are " Bilder ohne
Worte," quaint, impressive and most decorative,
both in composition and colour.
TRANSPARENT HANGING. DESIGNED BY HELGA
WINDINGSTAD ', WOVEN BY ELISABETH MATHIASEN
(Den Arorsfce Husflidsforening)