Studio: international art (88.1924)

PARIS—VIENNA

M. Naudin was born at Chateauroux in
1876, and at the age of seventeen, like
most youths of artistic tastes, found it
desirable to come to Paris, mingle in her
many-sided life, and study her abundant
art treasures. He worked at the Ecole des
Beaux Arts, under Bonnat, and was a most
difficult pupil to manage. He was ex-
tremely independent and preferred to go
his own ways, learning from his own acute
observation and the study of those masters
whose work he liked best, namely, those
who hid a latent sadness or strong emotion
under a mask of sarcasm or happy in-
difference, feeling the full force of life's
strange mystery. At first he drew society's
outcasts, as in his series of etchings called
Les Affliges, which sometimes call Goya to
mind. But book-illustration attracted
him, and in 1913 he did a series of etchings
for Chamisso's " L'Homme qui a perdu
son Ombre," while it was but natural that
he should find congenial material in the
" Tales" of Edgar Allan Poe. For Bau-
delaire's translation of these, which was
issued by a publisher possessed of a very
keen and catholic taste (M. Helleu) in
1916, he abandoned etching for ordinary
drawing reproduced by process-work, a
procedure eminently suitable for the de-
coration of the book. a a a

BUST OF MR. THOMAS HARDY
O.M. BY SERGE YOURIEVITCH

Other works finely illustrated by M.
Naudin are G. Geffrey's " Marthe," and
" L'Apprentie " (published by Cres), Paul
Geraldy's " La Guerre, Madame," Di-
derot's " Neveu de Rameau," and Anatole
France's " Ce que disent nos Morts"
(published by Helleu). M. Naudin's
work is represented in The Studio
Special Winter Number, published this
month, entitled " The New Book
Illustration in France." M. Valotaire.

Our other illustration for Paris this
month is a bust of Mr. Thomas Hardy
recently made at the Dorchester home of
that distinguished novelist by M. Serge
Yourievitch, whose excellent work was
introduced to our readers in our July issue.

VIENNA.—The villa here reproduced
was designed by Professor Otto
Prutscher for the gentleman whose name it
bears. It is on the outskirts of Aussig,a small
town in Bohemia (Czechoslovakia), on the
River Elbe, at the entrance of that romantic
district known as " Saxon Switzerland."
The site presented great difficulties, for it
is on a declivity of rocky hills chosen for
the wonderful view it offers of the lovely
surrounding country. But this gave the
architect his chance, and he has solved his
problem exceedingly well, for, spite of its
exposed situation, while securing protec-
tion from the burning sun in summer, he
has ensured that all warmth offered by its
penetrating rays may cheer the rooms in
winter. This is achieved, a deep verandah
offering every comfort. The exterior of
the house is most pleasing, and is, more-
over, embellished by beautiful ceramic
figures designed by Professor M. Powolny.

A large quantity of graphic art is now
being produced here; fewof the artists,how-
ever, stand apart by reason of the true
beauty of their art. Among these few may
be counted Jakob Glasner. He is at once a
painter in oils and an engraver on wood.
Some of his pictures were reproduced in
The Studio about a dozen years ago.
Since then he has devoted much of his
attention to woodcuts in colour. After
long years of experimenting he has suc-
ceeded in achieving very good results,
both from the point of view of technique
and colour effects. He seeks his motives

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