DOI Heft:
No. 392 (November 1925)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0335
BUDAPEST
MONOGRAM IN COLOURS
BY GUSTAV VEGH
the ruling melody is governed by the
rhythm of letters. The printed lines, the
text carry the melody. And so it has been
from time immemorial on every good
written or printed page. 000
Mr. Vegh has reached to this expressive
power of written and drawn letters through
studies of styles and old book-art. His first
trials in graphic art coincide with the rapid
development of Hungarian amateur book-
art. This was about fifteen years ago.
Together with the taste for national orna-
ments in architecture a peculiar art of
books and posters sets in, on Hungarian
soil. This art has taken over forms and
lines as well from the beautiful baroque
prayer-books and patents of nobility, as a
patch of colour from the woven and em-
broidered stuffs or carvings of peasants.
Archaism and folk-art—in a subtle mix-
ture—may even to-day be discovered in
the graphic art of Gustavus Vegh. When
his art further ripened in the course of his
stay in Berlin, a robust airiness attached
to these folk-elements. He has found that
lapidary simplicity which is required by
the up-to-date printing presses and modern
tasks of life. He managed to become akin
to the material ; colours and forms crystal-
lize under his hands ; he learns the lan-
guage of poster-bills, but the ornamental
ground-idea remains unimpaired. 0
At last in Paris, where he has spent the
last two years, the noblest traditions of
graphic art direct him towards a new
world : to the graphical fixation of life.
On his figural plates, Montmartre, the
embankment of the Seine, the charming
views of streets appear, one after the other,
with the immediateness of the Chinese
ink, the colour pencil, chalk or etching-
needle. 00000
The naive inspiration which he hid, up
till now behind Biblical ornaments and
the marks of initials carved in stone,
suddenly breaks forth from the fresh snap-
shots of pencil sketches or water-colours.
The delightful coloured Japanese wood-
cuts and the lithography of the 'nineties,
illustrating Montmartre, infuse a new
culture into his veins and quicken his
blood. Demons and pigmies, invalids and
scented damsels, humour and soft melan-
MONOGRAM IN COLOURS
BY GUSTAV VEGH
329
MONOGRAM IN COLOURS
BY GUSTAV VEGH
the ruling melody is governed by the
rhythm of letters. The printed lines, the
text carry the melody. And so it has been
from time immemorial on every good
written or printed page. 000
Mr. Vegh has reached to this expressive
power of written and drawn letters through
studies of styles and old book-art. His first
trials in graphic art coincide with the rapid
development of Hungarian amateur book-
art. This was about fifteen years ago.
Together with the taste for national orna-
ments in architecture a peculiar art of
books and posters sets in, on Hungarian
soil. This art has taken over forms and
lines as well from the beautiful baroque
prayer-books and patents of nobility, as a
patch of colour from the woven and em-
broidered stuffs or carvings of peasants.
Archaism and folk-art—in a subtle mix-
ture—may even to-day be discovered in
the graphic art of Gustavus Vegh. When
his art further ripened in the course of his
stay in Berlin, a robust airiness attached
to these folk-elements. He has found that
lapidary simplicity which is required by
the up-to-date printing presses and modern
tasks of life. He managed to become akin
to the material ; colours and forms crystal-
lize under his hands ; he learns the lan-
guage of poster-bills, but the ornamental
ground-idea remains unimpaired. 0
At last in Paris, where he has spent the
last two years, the noblest traditions of
graphic art direct him towards a new
world : to the graphical fixation of life.
On his figural plates, Montmartre, the
embankment of the Seine, the charming
views of streets appear, one after the other,
with the immediateness of the Chinese
ink, the colour pencil, chalk or etching-
needle. 00000
The naive inspiration which he hid, up
till now behind Biblical ornaments and
the marks of initials carved in stone,
suddenly breaks forth from the fresh snap-
shots of pencil sketches or water-colours.
The delightful coloured Japanese wood-
cuts and the lithography of the 'nineties,
illustrating Montmartre, infuse a new
culture into his veins and quicken his
blood. Demons and pigmies, invalids and
scented damsels, humour and soft melan-
MONOGRAM IN COLOURS
BY GUSTAV VEGH
329