DOI Heft:
No. 387 (September 1924)
DOI Artikel:[Notes: one hundred and ninety-three illustrations]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0191
BERLIN
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MEMORIAL RELIEF. BY
AUGUSTDRAEGER
BERLIN.—August Draeger, one of shows how well he is able to visualise the
whose works we reproduce above, is one object he sets before him. 000
of those artists who pursue their work under " Young Man starting to run a Race.
the extraordinary difficulties which beset My fundamental object in this figure has
such efforts in Germany to-day. It cannot been to give expression in art to the re-
be gainsaid that the professional classes newed interest in sport which is felt in
have been the chief sufferers from the our day ; expression such as was given
after-effects of the war, and the more in classical antiquity. Myron's Discobolus
credit is due to those among them who has served as my model. I have chosen
have courageously continued their en- the moment when the runner is poised, his
deavours in their particular line of stooping body suggestive of a strung bow,
work. 0ei000a his finger-tips touching the ground, await-
The memorial relief (for the Breit- ing the signal to ' let go,' like an arrow."
haupt family) given herewith is cut " You get the greatest impression of
out of a slab of limestone, and is in- expectant strain if you look at the figure
tended to symbolise death. A reclining on the side of the leg on which the weight
female figure is shown, sleeping, while a of the body falls, for here you get the full
winged genius (the soul) rises upwards effect of the muscular tension of the
just beyond her. The dead figure bears heavily burdened limb ; while if you view
some resemblance to the dead woman on the figure from the other side, you get
whose tomb it is to be placed. 0 0 the long flowing line of the body, the
Herr Draeger manifests a clear con- chest thrown out for the deep breath which
sciousness of what he is setting out to do— must be drawn before the race begins,
a quality rare enough in these days,whenso the stomach contracted correspondingly,
many artists seem to execute first and The effect of this is, on the one hand, to
think afterwards. He has supplied us increase the impression of effort; on the
with a description of one of his chief other, to add beauty to the lower line of
works, which is worth recording, since it the body." 00000
171
mm?
■
afej IS
MEMORIAL RELIEF. BY
AUGUSTDRAEGER
BERLIN.—August Draeger, one of shows how well he is able to visualise the
whose works we reproduce above, is one object he sets before him. 000
of those artists who pursue their work under " Young Man starting to run a Race.
the extraordinary difficulties which beset My fundamental object in this figure has
such efforts in Germany to-day. It cannot been to give expression in art to the re-
be gainsaid that the professional classes newed interest in sport which is felt in
have been the chief sufferers from the our day ; expression such as was given
after-effects of the war, and the more in classical antiquity. Myron's Discobolus
credit is due to those among them who has served as my model. I have chosen
have courageously continued their en- the moment when the runner is poised, his
deavours in their particular line of stooping body suggestive of a strung bow,
work. 0ei000a his finger-tips touching the ground, await-
The memorial relief (for the Breit- ing the signal to ' let go,' like an arrow."
haupt family) given herewith is cut " You get the greatest impression of
out of a slab of limestone, and is in- expectant strain if you look at the figure
tended to symbolise death. A reclining on the side of the leg on which the weight
female figure is shown, sleeping, while a of the body falls, for here you get the full
winged genius (the soul) rises upwards effect of the muscular tension of the
just beyond her. The dead figure bears heavily burdened limb ; while if you view
some resemblance to the dead woman on the figure from the other side, you get
whose tomb it is to be placed. 0 0 the long flowing line of the body, the
Herr Draeger manifests a clear con- chest thrown out for the deep breath which
sciousness of what he is setting out to do— must be drawn before the race begins,
a quality rare enough in these days,whenso the stomach contracted correspondingly,
many artists seem to execute first and The effect of this is, on the one hand, to
think afterwards. He has supplied us increase the impression of effort; on the
with a description of one of his chief other, to add beauty to the lower line of
works, which is worth recording, since it the body." 00000
171