DOI issue:
No. 391 (October 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0275
MOSCOW—POLAND
ornamentation is obvious also here in the
two book covers, modest examples though
they be. 0000a
H. S.
MOSCOW.—When in January, 1922,
I had the opportunity of presenting
to the readers of The Studio the new
group of Moscow wood-engravers with
V. Favorsky at their head, the name of
Alexis Kravchenko did not figure among
them. The artist was then only at the
beginning of his career as an engraver,
although for a long time he had been well
known as a gifted painter of landscapes
and decorative canvases. Since that time
Alexis Kravchenko has become one of the
most productive and clever Russian wood-
cutters, working chiefly in the illustrative
line, and his engraved work includes at
present a whole series of illustrations for
novels by Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann,
Dickens and Leonoff, as well as a great
number of book-plates, Moscow views
and other things. 0000
Unfortunately, not all of these book
ILLUSTRATION FOR DICKENS'S
" CRICKET ON THE HEARTH "
WOODCUT BY A. KRAVCHENKO
illustrations have been so lucky in finding
a publisher as " The Cricket on the
Hearth," just now published in a Russian
translation by the State Publishing House
of Moscow. It may be added that in its
dramatised form this tale of the famous
English author enjoyed a most con-
tinuous success on a Moscow stage. A.
Kravchenko in his compositions for the
Dickens story shows himself as a genuine
illustrator apt in translating the author's
descriptions in an individual pictorial
form, as well as very clever wood-engraver
of decorative effect. P. E.
POLAND.—Sokolnicki is undoubtedly
one of the leading Polish sculptors in
Paris, which is saying a great deal con-
sidering the very large numbers of Poles
who devote themselves to art on the
banks of the Seine at the present moment.
But this is not all. There are con-
noisseurs, by no means few, who place
him in the same category of artists as the
now celebrated Bourdelle, Despiau,
Maillol, and others. Taking stock of his
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ornamentation is obvious also here in the
two book covers, modest examples though
they be. 0000a
H. S.
MOSCOW.—When in January, 1922,
I had the opportunity of presenting
to the readers of The Studio the new
group of Moscow wood-engravers with
V. Favorsky at their head, the name of
Alexis Kravchenko did not figure among
them. The artist was then only at the
beginning of his career as an engraver,
although for a long time he had been well
known as a gifted painter of landscapes
and decorative canvases. Since that time
Alexis Kravchenko has become one of the
most productive and clever Russian wood-
cutters, working chiefly in the illustrative
line, and his engraved work includes at
present a whole series of illustrations for
novels by Gogol, E. T. A. Hoffmann,
Dickens and Leonoff, as well as a great
number of book-plates, Moscow views
and other things. 0000
Unfortunately, not all of these book
ILLUSTRATION FOR DICKENS'S
" CRICKET ON THE HEARTH "
WOODCUT BY A. KRAVCHENKO
illustrations have been so lucky in finding
a publisher as " The Cricket on the
Hearth," just now published in a Russian
translation by the State Publishing House
of Moscow. It may be added that in its
dramatised form this tale of the famous
English author enjoyed a most con-
tinuous success on a Moscow stage. A.
Kravchenko in his compositions for the
Dickens story shows himself as a genuine
illustrator apt in translating the author's
descriptions in an individual pictorial
form, as well as very clever wood-engraver
of decorative effect. P. E.
POLAND.—Sokolnicki is undoubtedly
one of the leading Polish sculptors in
Paris, which is saying a great deal con-
sidering the very large numbers of Poles
who devote themselves to art on the
banks of the Seine at the present moment.
But this is not all. There are con-
noisseurs, by no means few, who place
him in the same category of artists as the
now celebrated Bourdelle, Despiau,
Maillol, and others. Taking stock of his
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