DOI issue:
No. 388 (July 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0066
HAMBURG
Children's Home in Saxony, also some
unique decorative silhouettes on glass for
the " Steelworkers' Union." 0 0
During the War he did military service,
mostly in Poland, where he found time
for some characteristic drawings. Since
the War he has done different kinds of
work, plastic and otherwise. 0 0
He felt tempted to try himself at the old
and recently revived art of silhouettes
which in Germany is now so largely
practised by amateurs. He has subse-
quently executed several series in this
technique, such as Don Quixote, Till
Euelenspiegel and Munchhausen, also some
book illustrations, among them Selma
Lageriof's u Gosta Berling" which
brought him an invitation from this
famous author to her country seat in
Sweden. a a 0 a 0
Unlike most of the recent so-called
silhouettes, his are not drawings blackened
afterwards, but are actually cut out with
scissors after the old method. It was his
intention to show that in this technique
it is quite possible to give a pictorial im-
pression, plastic, as it were, with movement
silhouette by
wilhelm repsold
HAMBURG.—Wilhelm Repsold, some
of whose silhouettes are reproduced
here, was born in Hamburg in 1885.
After a course at the School for Applied
Arts in Hamburg, the Dresden Academy
and at Julian's in Paris he went to Stutt-
gart. Here he worked in the studio of
Professor Habich, the sculptor, and with
him executed some work for the new
building of the Jena University. He then
continued his studies at the School for
Applied Arts in Munich. Before the War children's institution in
he did some remarkable plastic work for a saxony, by wilhelm repsold
60
Children's Home in Saxony, also some
unique decorative silhouettes on glass for
the " Steelworkers' Union." 0 0
During the War he did military service,
mostly in Poland, where he found time
for some characteristic drawings. Since
the War he has done different kinds of
work, plastic and otherwise. 0 0
He felt tempted to try himself at the old
and recently revived art of silhouettes
which in Germany is now so largely
practised by amateurs. He has subse-
quently executed several series in this
technique, such as Don Quixote, Till
Euelenspiegel and Munchhausen, also some
book illustrations, among them Selma
Lageriof's u Gosta Berling" which
brought him an invitation from this
famous author to her country seat in
Sweden. a a 0 a 0
Unlike most of the recent so-called
silhouettes, his are not drawings blackened
afterwards, but are actually cut out with
scissors after the old method. It was his
intention to show that in this technique
it is quite possible to give a pictorial im-
pression, plastic, as it were, with movement
silhouette by
wilhelm repsold
HAMBURG.—Wilhelm Repsold, some
of whose silhouettes are reproduced
here, was born in Hamburg in 1885.
After a course at the School for Applied
Arts in Hamburg, the Dresden Academy
and at Julian's in Paris he went to Stutt-
gart. Here he worked in the studio of
Professor Habich, the sculptor, and with
him executed some work for the new
building of the Jena University. He then
continued his studies at the School for
Applied Arts in Munich. Before the War children's institution in
he did some remarkable plastic work for a saxony, by wilhelm repsold
60