DOI issue:
No. 388 (July 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0065
BORGA (FINLAND)—BERLIN
BORGA (Finland).—Lennart Segers-
trale, the gifted Finnish artist, is a true
son of his country, a fervent lover of its
picturesque nature and perhaps more
especially of its fauna. He often betakes
himself to distant, isolated places where,
undisturbed, he can study eagle or gull,
wild swan or wild goose, a stately elk or a
timid snow hare, and with artistic verve
and the fidelity of an enthusiastic student
he conveys his impressions to the canvas
or the plate. 00000
His technique as an etcher is personal
to a marked degree, and he lays special
stress on conveying the peculiar atmo-
sphere—figuratively and literally—under
which he has viewed his model. The wet
surface of melting ice, the grey moisture
of the air, the vague mirroring on a wet
rock of a resting bird appeal to his artistic
susceptibility and are translated to his
prints with great skill. He does not give in
till he has achieved his end and I have
seen as many as eight different states
before he felt the desired effect had been
fully attained. G. B.
"ART AND PUBLICITY: FINE
PRINTING AND DESIGN/' a 0
AWORTHY sequel to the very success-
ful Studio volume, " Posters and their
Designers " will be our special Autumn
Number this year, to be issued in Septem-
ber under the above title. Posters are only
one feature of modern advertising, and this
book (the result of exhaustive and discrim-
inating research) will show what artists
have done in the design of such things as
periodical advertisements, booklets, pros-
pectuses, wrappers, and letter-headings.
America and most European countries have
been drawn on, and the whole should have
an even greater appeal than " Posters," for
the material is less accessible to the public.
Mr. Sydney R. Jones again writes the
commentary. 0000
BERLIN.—In the bronze statuette repro-
puced herewith, Herr Hermann
Joachim Pagels has produced an admirable
piece of modelling and a poignant comment-
ary on present-day social conditions. The
work was not done from the life, since
Herr Pagels felt that he could best produce
a vigorous result from a pure imaginative
effort. The strong and massive frame of
the unemployed labourer seems to
challenge a social system which allows
such potential power to remain unused,
and we are forcibly reminded of the
strictures of Carlyle in " Past and Present."
The Earth cries out: " Come and till me,"
but the complications of modern industry
permit of no such simple solution to the
problem. 00000
" OUT OF WORK" (BRONZE)
BY HERMANN JOACHIM PAGELS
59
BORGA (Finland).—Lennart Segers-
trale, the gifted Finnish artist, is a true
son of his country, a fervent lover of its
picturesque nature and perhaps more
especially of its fauna. He often betakes
himself to distant, isolated places where,
undisturbed, he can study eagle or gull,
wild swan or wild goose, a stately elk or a
timid snow hare, and with artistic verve
and the fidelity of an enthusiastic student
he conveys his impressions to the canvas
or the plate. 00000
His technique as an etcher is personal
to a marked degree, and he lays special
stress on conveying the peculiar atmo-
sphere—figuratively and literally—under
which he has viewed his model. The wet
surface of melting ice, the grey moisture
of the air, the vague mirroring on a wet
rock of a resting bird appeal to his artistic
susceptibility and are translated to his
prints with great skill. He does not give in
till he has achieved his end and I have
seen as many as eight different states
before he felt the desired effect had been
fully attained. G. B.
"ART AND PUBLICITY: FINE
PRINTING AND DESIGN/' a 0
AWORTHY sequel to the very success-
ful Studio volume, " Posters and their
Designers " will be our special Autumn
Number this year, to be issued in Septem-
ber under the above title. Posters are only
one feature of modern advertising, and this
book (the result of exhaustive and discrim-
inating research) will show what artists
have done in the design of such things as
periodical advertisements, booklets, pros-
pectuses, wrappers, and letter-headings.
America and most European countries have
been drawn on, and the whole should have
an even greater appeal than " Posters," for
the material is less accessible to the public.
Mr. Sydney R. Jones again writes the
commentary. 0000
BERLIN.—In the bronze statuette repro-
puced herewith, Herr Hermann
Joachim Pagels has produced an admirable
piece of modelling and a poignant comment-
ary on present-day social conditions. The
work was not done from the life, since
Herr Pagels felt that he could best produce
a vigorous result from a pure imaginative
effort. The strong and massive frame of
the unemployed labourer seems to
challenge a social system which allows
such potential power to remain unused,
and we are forcibly reminded of the
strictures of Carlyle in " Past and Present."
The Earth cries out: " Come and till me,"
but the complications of modern industry
permit of no such simple solution to the
problem. 00000
" OUT OF WORK" (BRONZE)
BY HERMANN JOACHIM PAGELS
59