DOI Heft:
No. 331 (October 1920)
DOI Artikel:Studio-Talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0134
STUDIO-TALK
" LE PA VILLON FRANCAIS, VERSAILLES "
WATER-COLOUR BY J. ROSENSTOCK
the Czech peasants in their picturesque its scenes of luxury and tragedy, and so
costumes. As a painter he possessed all powerfully does it excite the imagination
the qualities of the modern artist. Plein- that one has the feeling of witnessing over
air and tone value were his problems, again one by one the greatest events in
Some of his paintings astonish by their the history of France. For here indeed
impressionistic treatment. Summer, here a veritable panorama of that history is,
reproduced, shows interesting light and as it were, spread out before one's eyes,
colour effects. Who would have dared The smallest stone of the palace of the
at that time to set human faces like these Roi-soleil, the tall trees of his park, the
in the green shadow of a red umbrella i groves and hedges, the statues and
The greater part of his intentions re- fountains—all these things have some-
mained sketches and designs, but all his thing to say. Are they not like so many
works—even the smallest productions— letters, so many lines, in the pages of
bear the stamp of a rare personality. 0 our national history i No wonder that
H. S. a place so crowded with associations and
(For the reproduction of Summer we traditions should have attracted our artists,
are indebted to Mr. F. Topic, of Prague, and, in fact, the number of those who
who has published a portfolio containing have responded to the appeal may with
many excellent reproductions of works truth be said to be legion. One of these
by Manes.—Editor.) a 0 0 is j. Rosenstock, than whom no painter
has been more deeply stirred by personal
PARIS.—The name of Versailles is contact with Versailles. Exploring its
in itself an evocation ; its mere beauties from many and varied points of
utterance serves to call up the past with view, he has brought back a fine harvest
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" LE PA VILLON FRANCAIS, VERSAILLES "
WATER-COLOUR BY J. ROSENSTOCK
the Czech peasants in their picturesque its scenes of luxury and tragedy, and so
costumes. As a painter he possessed all powerfully does it excite the imagination
the qualities of the modern artist. Plein- that one has the feeling of witnessing over
air and tone value were his problems, again one by one the greatest events in
Some of his paintings astonish by their the history of France. For here indeed
impressionistic treatment. Summer, here a veritable panorama of that history is,
reproduced, shows interesting light and as it were, spread out before one's eyes,
colour effects. Who would have dared The smallest stone of the palace of the
at that time to set human faces like these Roi-soleil, the tall trees of his park, the
in the green shadow of a red umbrella i groves and hedges, the statues and
The greater part of his intentions re- fountains—all these things have some-
mained sketches and designs, but all his thing to say. Are they not like so many
works—even the smallest productions— letters, so many lines, in the pages of
bear the stamp of a rare personality. 0 our national history i No wonder that
H. S. a place so crowded with associations and
(For the reproduction of Summer we traditions should have attracted our artists,
are indebted to Mr. F. Topic, of Prague, and, in fact, the number of those who
who has published a portfolio containing have responded to the appeal may with
many excellent reproductions of works truth be said to be legion. One of these
by Manes.—Editor.) a 0 0 is j. Rosenstock, than whom no painter
has been more deeply stirred by personal
PARIS.—The name of Versailles is contact with Versailles. Exploring its
in itself an evocation ; its mere beauties from many and varied points of
utterance serves to call up the past with view, he has brought back a fine harvest
119