DOI issue:
No. 355 (October 1922)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21396#0248
STUDIO-TALK
" LOBSTER AND SALAMANDER "
BY G. OPPEL (VOLKSTEDT)
synthesis, Antonio has incorporated his
spirit in this incomparable series of busts
which we see in this room at the Modern
Museum—busts so definite in their science
and their tranquillity that the name of
Donatello rises naturally, as the only
possible qualification, to the lips of one
who contemplates them. M. Nelken.
DRESDEN.— The Pottery, Porcelain
and Glass Exhibition is the first of a
series intended to show what can be
achieved with our own raw material
independently of foreign countries.
Porcelain and majolica have come to be
the medium of our sculptors, since bronze
and marble or other stone prices have
become altogether prohibitive. The re-
sult has been a very happy one, in so far
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as genuine artistic talent now turns its
energies into new channels. As a matter
of fact, the principal attraction of the ex-
hibition consists of what may be called
the porcelain cabinet statuary, though
everything from delicate groups down to
the simplest of crockery for every-day use
is shown. For every sort of work, from
the most elaborately artistic down to the
simplest, a high quality note is aimed at.
Within the limited space allowed here, one
can hardly do more than single out by
name a few of the most noteworthy among
many thousands of exhibits. a a
The Rosenthal factory at Selb has put
up one of the best shows, and T. Karner's
Triumphant Return—a lioness dragging
an antelope to her lair—is easily the piece
de resistance. Both modelling and colour-
" LOBSTER AND SALAMANDER "
BY G. OPPEL (VOLKSTEDT)
synthesis, Antonio has incorporated his
spirit in this incomparable series of busts
which we see in this room at the Modern
Museum—busts so definite in their science
and their tranquillity that the name of
Donatello rises naturally, as the only
possible qualification, to the lips of one
who contemplates them. M. Nelken.
DRESDEN.— The Pottery, Porcelain
and Glass Exhibition is the first of a
series intended to show what can be
achieved with our own raw material
independently of foreign countries.
Porcelain and majolica have come to be
the medium of our sculptors, since bronze
and marble or other stone prices have
become altogether prohibitive. The re-
sult has been a very happy one, in so far
228
as genuine artistic talent now turns its
energies into new channels. As a matter
of fact, the principal attraction of the ex-
hibition consists of what may be called
the porcelain cabinet statuary, though
everything from delicate groups down to
the simplest of crockery for every-day use
is shown. For every sort of work, from
the most elaborately artistic down to the
simplest, a high quality note is aimed at.
Within the limited space allowed here, one
can hardly do more than single out by
name a few of the most noteworthy among
many thousands of exhibits. a a
The Rosenthal factory at Selb has put
up one of the best shows, and T. Karner's
Triumphant Return—a lioness dragging
an antelope to her lair—is easily the piece
de resistance. Both modelling and colour-