DOI issue:
No. 384 (March 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0183
MOSCOW—VIENNA
"ST. FRANCIS." MEDAL
BY RUDOLF SCHMIDT
MOSCOW.—The eightieth birthday of
the famous Russian painter Ilya
Yefmovitch Repin was celebrated in his
country by two large exhibitions arranged
by the Tretiakoff Gallery at Moscow and
the Russian Museum at Leningrad. In
the Tretiakoff Gallery about 170 paintings,
sketches and drawings were collected,
among which a considerable number may
be regarded as the highest products of his
very real talent, while the whole gave a
sufficient review of his gradual develop-
ment. The strong influence of modern
French painting on Repin during his stay
at Paris in the 'seventies was particularly
in evidence. Indeed, after this journey
began the artist's most brilliant period,
as a most vigorous painter of portraits,
scenes of rural and town-life as well as of
historical compositions. a a 0
To these last belongs The Procession
(1883) (here shown), doubtless one of the
most important works of the modern
Russian School, both prominent as a very
fine plein air painting and as an excellent
composition of a big crowd with great
richness in different types, constituting a
valuable document of Russian popular
life. Also as a plein air painter Repin
appears in the striking portrait of his
daughter, named The Autumn Bouquet
(1892), where the female figure and the
landscape atmospherically and in colour-
ing are brought to full harmony. P. E.
VIENNA.—Numismatic art in Austria
may be said to owe its development to
Empress Maria Theresa, who always
strove earnestly to encourage the teach-
ings and practice of the arts, as she did the
handicrafts. From her time onwards till
the fatal 1914, the medailleur of degree
flourished, his medals were in demand in
his own country, as in foreign lands. For
the last ten years, however, the medallist
became superfluous, this for obvious
reasons. In order to try, at least, to give
a new lease of life to his art, the Vienna
Numismatic Society, founded in 1909,
called together all its strength and held an
exhibition, at the Kunstlerhaus, of medals
done by Austrian artists, as also those of
other countries : England, America, France,
Belgium, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hun-
gary and Italy. Here it was clear to all that
Austria could compare favourably with the
other lands represented. a 0 a
The school started under the auspices
of Maria Theresa has flourished well.
Many prominent men have passed through
it and in their turn spread the knowledge
of their art by their teachings, as by the
excellent quality of the work they have
produced, among them Matthias Donner,
Daniel Bbhm and J. Tautenhayn. To come
nearer to our own days mention must be
made of Ludwig Hixjer, President of the
Vienna Society. After having completed
" MADONNA AND CHILD "
MEDAL BY MICHAEL SIX
177
"ST. FRANCIS." MEDAL
BY RUDOLF SCHMIDT
MOSCOW.—The eightieth birthday of
the famous Russian painter Ilya
Yefmovitch Repin was celebrated in his
country by two large exhibitions arranged
by the Tretiakoff Gallery at Moscow and
the Russian Museum at Leningrad. In
the Tretiakoff Gallery about 170 paintings,
sketches and drawings were collected,
among which a considerable number may
be regarded as the highest products of his
very real talent, while the whole gave a
sufficient review of his gradual develop-
ment. The strong influence of modern
French painting on Repin during his stay
at Paris in the 'seventies was particularly
in evidence. Indeed, after this journey
began the artist's most brilliant period,
as a most vigorous painter of portraits,
scenes of rural and town-life as well as of
historical compositions. a a 0
To these last belongs The Procession
(1883) (here shown), doubtless one of the
most important works of the modern
Russian School, both prominent as a very
fine plein air painting and as an excellent
composition of a big crowd with great
richness in different types, constituting a
valuable document of Russian popular
life. Also as a plein air painter Repin
appears in the striking portrait of his
daughter, named The Autumn Bouquet
(1892), where the female figure and the
landscape atmospherically and in colour-
ing are brought to full harmony. P. E.
VIENNA.—Numismatic art in Austria
may be said to owe its development to
Empress Maria Theresa, who always
strove earnestly to encourage the teach-
ings and practice of the arts, as she did the
handicrafts. From her time onwards till
the fatal 1914, the medailleur of degree
flourished, his medals were in demand in
his own country, as in foreign lands. For
the last ten years, however, the medallist
became superfluous, this for obvious
reasons. In order to try, at least, to give
a new lease of life to his art, the Vienna
Numismatic Society, founded in 1909,
called together all its strength and held an
exhibition, at the Kunstlerhaus, of medals
done by Austrian artists, as also those of
other countries : England, America, France,
Belgium, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hun-
gary and Italy. Here it was clear to all that
Austria could compare favourably with the
other lands represented. a 0 a
The school started under the auspices
of Maria Theresa has flourished well.
Many prominent men have passed through
it and in their turn spread the knowledge
of their art by their teachings, as by the
excellent quality of the work they have
produced, among them Matthias Donner,
Daniel Bbhm and J. Tautenhayn. To come
nearer to our own days mention must be
made of Ludwig Hixjer, President of the
Vienna Society. After having completed
" MADONNA AND CHILD "
MEDAL BY MICHAEL SIX
177