DOI Heft:
No. 384 (March 1925)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0179
BOOKPLATE BY
KURT SIEBERT
did not seem disposed altogether to admit
this, yet I cannot help thinking it is
there, perhaps imperceptibly existing, and
belonging to the Southern temperament
of both painters. Still I should not
press this point too far, though it came
to my mind strongly in Venice before
Irolli's Pesca Abbondante. Simple in his
own life, Irolli lives entirely for his art;
his work—direct, luminous, sound in de-
sign, glowing in colour—is the sincere
expression of his temperament. a 0
S. B.
BOOKPLATE BY
KURT SIEBERT
NAPLES—BERLIN—TOKYO
BERLIN.—An increasing interest is
taken in book-plates in Germany.
Pictorial plates which somehow portray
the owner are general favourites, and
artists like Vogeler, Bastanier, and Sattler
are producing miniature works full of
poetry, wit, and grace. Yet the taste
for written ex-libris is growing, with the
opinion that they are more adaptable for
all sorts of books. This makes the works
of Mr. Kurt Siebert, an assistant in the
Staatliche Kunstgewerbe Bibliothek, a
welcome speciality. He masters all kinds
of letterings and tries in each case to
make his calligraphy a mirror of the
owner's personality. Thus both his writ-
ing and the shape of his book-plates are
psychological commentators. J. J.
BOOKPLATE BY
KURT SIEBERT
TOKYO.—The eleventh semi-annual
exhibition of the Nihon Bijutsuin (Fine
Art Institute of Nippon) was recently held
at the Takenodai Galleries, in Uyeno Park,
and later it was taken to Kyoto and Osaka
in its entirety. Great importance has long
been attached to the Nihon Bijutsuin's
autumnal exhibition, for it has always
shown something worth while, something
original indicating a new path for others to
follow. However, the last one, though not
without many commendable works, was
not so strong as it might have been,
chiefly owing to the fact that Yokoyama-
Taikwan, the acknowledged leader of the
institute, on account of his long illness,
was unable to show works of his usual
magnitude. He had only one rather small
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KURT SIEBERT
did not seem disposed altogether to admit
this, yet I cannot help thinking it is
there, perhaps imperceptibly existing, and
belonging to the Southern temperament
of both painters. Still I should not
press this point too far, though it came
to my mind strongly in Venice before
Irolli's Pesca Abbondante. Simple in his
own life, Irolli lives entirely for his art;
his work—direct, luminous, sound in de-
sign, glowing in colour—is the sincere
expression of his temperament. a 0
S. B.
BOOKPLATE BY
KURT SIEBERT
NAPLES—BERLIN—TOKYO
BERLIN.—An increasing interest is
taken in book-plates in Germany.
Pictorial plates which somehow portray
the owner are general favourites, and
artists like Vogeler, Bastanier, and Sattler
are producing miniature works full of
poetry, wit, and grace. Yet the taste
for written ex-libris is growing, with the
opinion that they are more adaptable for
all sorts of books. This makes the works
of Mr. Kurt Siebert, an assistant in the
Staatliche Kunstgewerbe Bibliothek, a
welcome speciality. He masters all kinds
of letterings and tries in each case to
make his calligraphy a mirror of the
owner's personality. Thus both his writ-
ing and the shape of his book-plates are
psychological commentators. J. J.
BOOKPLATE BY
KURT SIEBERT
TOKYO.—The eleventh semi-annual
exhibition of the Nihon Bijutsuin (Fine
Art Institute of Nippon) was recently held
at the Takenodai Galleries, in Uyeno Park,
and later it was taken to Kyoto and Osaka
in its entirety. Great importance has long
been attached to the Nihon Bijutsuin's
autumnal exhibition, for it has always
shown something worth while, something
original indicating a new path for others to
follow. However, the last one, though not
without many commendable works, was
not so strong as it might have been,
chiefly owing to the fact that Yokoyama-
Taikwan, the acknowledged leader of the
institute, on account of his long illness,
was unable to show works of his usual
magnitude. He had only one rather small
173