DOI Heft:
No. 183 (February 1925)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0114
BRUSSELS—BREMEN
he has re-commenced his labours in O R E M E N. — Professor Bernhard
Brussels, and has executed many notable -D Haetger, modeller, carver, furniture
monuments. Among them may be maker and architect is all these things
mentioned a fine war-memorial in the because he loves research. Born in
Church of Ste. Gudule, Brussels, and Westphalia in 1874 he has spent many
two works now in progress : a monu- years of his life in travel and sojourns in
ment to those shot at the Brussels rifle-range Paris, Florence and elsewhere, learning,
(among whom was the heroic Nurse He was in Paris helping to form the Salon
Cavell) and another soon to be unveiled d'Automne; becoming a realist with
at Ghiffa (Lac Majeur). He is also an Rodin, an impressionist, only to fall
engraver and draughtsman, and his wife, under the spell of Maillol, whose only
who belongs to an eminent Brazilian virtue is the perfect plastic sense. He
family, is also an accomplished sculptor needs no other. Haetger shares this, and
and musician. 0 0 0 0 he has brought his modelling technique
__ to as high a state of perfection. He is a
beautiful modeller and his carving of the
A committee has been formed to erect figure is no less true to life, and in this he
a monument to the memory of Emile goes further than Maillol. His taste for
Claus, the famous Belgian landscape carving led him to the Gothic and he
painter. The sculptor, Yvonne Serruys returned to Germany to study it. But his
(Madame Pierre Mille), pupil of E. work has not the Gothic feeling although
Rombaux, has been commissioned to it is as true ,* it is too sophisticated for
execute the memorial, which will be placed early Gothic ; but it is not Renaissance,
in a picturesque position in the park at not sophisticated in the classical sense;
Ghent. Claus lived not far from here, at it has the late classical truth to form, but
Astene, on the Lys. The committee hope its realism is just Gothic truth told in
that the many artists and others who knew modern language. Busts, statues, statu-
Claus in England during the War will join ettes, torsos, grave memorials and reliefs
in this tribute to his memory. Names of in marble, stone, wood, bronze and terra
those willing to assist may be sent to the cotta are witnesses to his sculptural sense,
Secretary of the Committee, M. Story, and the strange house he has built for him-
La Maison Blanche, Mariakerke-lez-Gand. self at Worpsmede near Bremen is evidence
P. L. of his disregard for all tradition. K. P.
'LA MORT DE SAPHO." WOOD
SCULPTURE BY AMEDEE HAMOIR
(Ixelles Museum. Photo, Duquenne)
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he has re-commenced his labours in O R E M E N. — Professor Bernhard
Brussels, and has executed many notable -D Haetger, modeller, carver, furniture
monuments. Among them may be maker and architect is all these things
mentioned a fine war-memorial in the because he loves research. Born in
Church of Ste. Gudule, Brussels, and Westphalia in 1874 he has spent many
two works now in progress : a monu- years of his life in travel and sojourns in
ment to those shot at the Brussels rifle-range Paris, Florence and elsewhere, learning,
(among whom was the heroic Nurse He was in Paris helping to form the Salon
Cavell) and another soon to be unveiled d'Automne; becoming a realist with
at Ghiffa (Lac Majeur). He is also an Rodin, an impressionist, only to fall
engraver and draughtsman, and his wife, under the spell of Maillol, whose only
who belongs to an eminent Brazilian virtue is the perfect plastic sense. He
family, is also an accomplished sculptor needs no other. Haetger shares this, and
and musician. 0 0 0 0 he has brought his modelling technique
__ to as high a state of perfection. He is a
beautiful modeller and his carving of the
A committee has been formed to erect figure is no less true to life, and in this he
a monument to the memory of Emile goes further than Maillol. His taste for
Claus, the famous Belgian landscape carving led him to the Gothic and he
painter. The sculptor, Yvonne Serruys returned to Germany to study it. But his
(Madame Pierre Mille), pupil of E. work has not the Gothic feeling although
Rombaux, has been commissioned to it is as true ,* it is too sophisticated for
execute the memorial, which will be placed early Gothic ; but it is not Renaissance,
in a picturesque position in the park at not sophisticated in the classical sense;
Ghent. Claus lived not far from here, at it has the late classical truth to form, but
Astene, on the Lys. The committee hope its realism is just Gothic truth told in
that the many artists and others who knew modern language. Busts, statues, statu-
Claus in England during the War will join ettes, torsos, grave memorials and reliefs
in this tribute to his memory. Names of in marble, stone, wood, bronze and terra
those willing to assist may be sent to the cotta are witnesses to his sculptural sense,
Secretary of the Committee, M. Story, and the strange house he has built for him-
La Maison Blanche, Mariakerke-lez-Gand. self at Worpsmede near Bremen is evidence
P. L. of his disregard for all tradition. K. P.
'LA MORT DE SAPHO." WOOD
SCULPTURE BY AMEDEE HAMOIR
(Ixelles Museum. Photo, Duquenne)
[08