DOI issue:
No. 348 (March 1922)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21395#0188
STUDIO-TALK
"LE BUCHER DES GLOIRES ”
BY JEAN JACQUES GAILLIARD
has occupied himself very little with
lithography. This is to be regretted, as
the medium is particularly responsive to
his style of drawing and translates ex-
cellently the most characteristic features
of his talent. Latterly, however, he has
happily returned to the stone and pro-
duced from it some good portraits. The
last is the ideal portrait of Beethoven here
reproduced. Pasternak, himself an ardent
music lover and connoisseur, is a whole-
hearted admirer of the great German
composer, to whom he thus pays homage
on the hundredth anniversary of his death.
When dealing with the posthumous por-
trait of a great man we are, of course,
principally interested in a psychological
evocation of his image as it lives in our
minds, and are less concerned with a purely
physicalresemblance. Pasternakhas, Ithink,
undoubtedly succeeded in portraying the
master as most of us imagine him in his
last sad period, and this print may be
regarded as one of the best of the artist's
essays in lithography, besides being a
worthy addition to the posthumous icono-
graphy of the musician which every year
becomes more and more voluminous. P. E.
171
"LE BUCHER DES GLOIRES ”
BY JEAN JACQUES GAILLIARD
has occupied himself very little with
lithography. This is to be regretted, as
the medium is particularly responsive to
his style of drawing and translates ex-
cellently the most characteristic features
of his talent. Latterly, however, he has
happily returned to the stone and pro-
duced from it some good portraits. The
last is the ideal portrait of Beethoven here
reproduced. Pasternak, himself an ardent
music lover and connoisseur, is a whole-
hearted admirer of the great German
composer, to whom he thus pays homage
on the hundredth anniversary of his death.
When dealing with the posthumous por-
trait of a great man we are, of course,
principally interested in a psychological
evocation of his image as it lives in our
minds, and are less concerned with a purely
physicalresemblance. Pasternakhas, Ithink,
undoubtedly succeeded in portraying the
master as most of us imagine him in his
last sad period, and this print may be
regarded as one of the best of the artist's
essays in lithography, besides being a
worthy addition to the posthumous icono-
graphy of the musician which every year
becomes more and more voluminous. P. E.
171