DOI Heft:
No. 393 (December 1925)
DOI Artikel:[Studio-talk]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21403#0395
PARIS—BERLIN
WROUGHT-IRON GATE IN THE
COUR DES METIERS, PARIS INTER-
NATIONAL EXHIBITION. BY SZABO
BERLIN.—The bust of the celebrated I have pleasure in acknowledging the
German economist his Excellency kind permission of Messrs, Velhagen and
Professor Adolph Wagner, p. 391, has been Klasing, of Berlin and Leipzig, for the re-
executed by his daughter Cornelia Paczka- production of the picture by Fritz Bur-
Wagner, the widow of the well-known mann which appeared on p. 321 of the
Hungarian painter Franz Paczka. She has November Studio ; and regret that my
made her reputation as painter and graphic information came to hand too late for
artist, but the irresistible impulse to create acknowledgment to be made under the
plastic form has ultimately sunk the scales caption. Jarno Jessen.
of her creative activity on the side of
sculpture. It was no easy task to reproduce The recent evolution in European art
the vulture-like physiognomy of the emi- has brought a change in the domain of
nent scholar with all its wrinkles and portrait-painting. The period of demoli-
irregularities, but she has wonderfully tion has been followed by a period of
succeeded, suppressing no characteristic building up of new forms. The self-
detail and yet attaining a monumental exaltation of the artist making a law of his
quality. The Berlin University has put personal views seems now to make room
up this bronze bust in memory of the again for more quiet and clear forms, for
great scientist. The artist is now com- recognition of rules and a return to
pleting her magnum opus—a fountain in nature. Consequently a renewed atten-
stone and bronze which is to sum up her tion is being paid to those painters who,
thoughts on the destiny of womanhood, far from being misled by the alternating
She is an indefatigable worker and sound creeds of the last generation, felt called to
technician, but her fertility and many- reflect life with genial faithfulness. Among
sidedness make labour happiness. a them is Antal Jarosy, the young and
389
WROUGHT-IRON GATE IN THE
COUR DES METIERS, PARIS INTER-
NATIONAL EXHIBITION. BY SZABO
BERLIN.—The bust of the celebrated I have pleasure in acknowledging the
German economist his Excellency kind permission of Messrs, Velhagen and
Professor Adolph Wagner, p. 391, has been Klasing, of Berlin and Leipzig, for the re-
executed by his daughter Cornelia Paczka- production of the picture by Fritz Bur-
Wagner, the widow of the well-known mann which appeared on p. 321 of the
Hungarian painter Franz Paczka. She has November Studio ; and regret that my
made her reputation as painter and graphic information came to hand too late for
artist, but the irresistible impulse to create acknowledgment to be made under the
plastic form has ultimately sunk the scales caption. Jarno Jessen.
of her creative activity on the side of
sculpture. It was no easy task to reproduce The recent evolution in European art
the vulture-like physiognomy of the emi- has brought a change in the domain of
nent scholar with all its wrinkles and portrait-painting. The period of demoli-
irregularities, but she has wonderfully tion has been followed by a period of
succeeded, suppressing no characteristic building up of new forms. The self-
detail and yet attaining a monumental exaltation of the artist making a law of his
quality. The Berlin University has put personal views seems now to make room
up this bronze bust in memory of the again for more quiet and clear forms, for
great scientist. The artist is now com- recognition of rules and a return to
pleting her magnum opus—a fountain in nature. Consequently a renewed atten-
stone and bronze which is to sum up her tion is being paid to those painters who,
thoughts on the destiny of womanhood, far from being misled by the alternating
She is an indefatigable worker and sound creeds of the last generation, felt called to
technician, but her fertility and many- reflect life with genial faithfulness. Among
sidedness make labour happiness. a them is Antal Jarosy, the young and
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