DOI Heft:
No. 321 (December 1919)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21359#0132
STUDIO-TALK
technical and artistic qualities to which this
charm and this beauty were due, and have
abandoned none of those traditions of pro-
fessional conscientiousness, of artistic pro-
bity and bold research which gained our
admiration then. In justice to Messrs.
Bing and Grondhal it should be said that,
unlike so many firms who, once success has
been established, relax their efforts towards
the attainment of the best, they continue to
show themselves as anxious now as they
ever were to neglect nothing in order to
keep in the front rank. Among the hun-
dreds of models they have produced during
recent years, those of which illustrations
are here given do not, of course, give more
than a superficial idea of the fascinating
experiments they have essayed ; they do
not include, for instance, examples of the
stoneware (gres) of Knud Kyhn, F. A.
Hallin, Mme. Hahn Locher, and Mile. C.
Olsen, the sterling qualities of which
certainly entitle it to rank with the best
achievements of French ceramic artists,
such as Delaherche, Decceur, Lenoble (to
mention only three), whose merits are
universally recognized. a 0 0
How different, in all respects, are the
statuettes of M. Hans Tegner from those
of M. Kai Nielsen ! While the former,
inspired directly by the exquisite little
chefs-d’oeuvre of the eighteenth century, has
succeeded in reviving the spirit of that
epoch with rare tact and perfect taste, M.
Kai Nielsen, on the other hand, with his
pre-eminently modern leanings, has de-
lighted to give to his figurines a style at
once broad and free. M. Nielsen is one of
the most prominent figure-sculptors in the
younger Danish school. A master in his
handling of the clay, he excels in translating
the warmth and plumpness of living forms,
and in his decorative compositions loves to
be the energetic realist that he is in his
PORCELAIN DECORATED IN BLACK ENAMEL
AND SILVER. BY MME. JO HAHN LOCHER
(Bing & Grondhal’s Porcelain Manufactory,
Copenhagen)
126
technical and artistic qualities to which this
charm and this beauty were due, and have
abandoned none of those traditions of pro-
fessional conscientiousness, of artistic pro-
bity and bold research which gained our
admiration then. In justice to Messrs.
Bing and Grondhal it should be said that,
unlike so many firms who, once success has
been established, relax their efforts towards
the attainment of the best, they continue to
show themselves as anxious now as they
ever were to neglect nothing in order to
keep in the front rank. Among the hun-
dreds of models they have produced during
recent years, those of which illustrations
are here given do not, of course, give more
than a superficial idea of the fascinating
experiments they have essayed ; they do
not include, for instance, examples of the
stoneware (gres) of Knud Kyhn, F. A.
Hallin, Mme. Hahn Locher, and Mile. C.
Olsen, the sterling qualities of which
certainly entitle it to rank with the best
achievements of French ceramic artists,
such as Delaherche, Decceur, Lenoble (to
mention only three), whose merits are
universally recognized. a 0 0
How different, in all respects, are the
statuettes of M. Hans Tegner from those
of M. Kai Nielsen ! While the former,
inspired directly by the exquisite little
chefs-d’oeuvre of the eighteenth century, has
succeeded in reviving the spirit of that
epoch with rare tact and perfect taste, M.
Kai Nielsen, on the other hand, with his
pre-eminently modern leanings, has de-
lighted to give to his figurines a style at
once broad and free. M. Nielsen is one of
the most prominent figure-sculptors in the
younger Danish school. A master in his
handling of the clay, he excels in translating
the warmth and plumpness of living forms,
and in his decorative compositions loves to
be the energetic realist that he is in his
PORCELAIN DECORATED IN BLACK ENAMEL
AND SILVER. BY MME. JO HAHN LOCHER
(Bing & Grondhal’s Porcelain Manufactory,
Copenhagen)
126