. Studio international . ously utilised in hiscraft by studies and journeys which have filled hissketch-books with a real treasure-store of architec-tural motifs. Kimbel is a clever thinker; itis his delight occasionally to copy exactly an oldpiece of supreme beauty, or to profit by historicalreminiscences, but he is at the same time a creativedesigner. He has kept aloof from the modernmovement because he feared that the experimentalspirit might endanger his solid training as a crafts-man, but indirectly the character of his work iscertainly a help to progressive tendencies, and re-dounds to t
. Studio international . ously utilised in hiscraft by studies and journeys which have filled hissketch-books with a real treasure-store of architec-tural motifs. Kimbel is a clever thinker; itis his delight occasionally to copy exactly an oldpiece of supreme beauty, or to profit by historicalreminiscences, but he is at the same time a creativedesigner. He has kept aloof from the modernmovement because he feared that the experimentalspirit might endanger his solid training as a crafts-man, but indirectly the character of his work iscertainly a help to progressive tendencies, and re-dounds to the credit of German is also a master of carving, inlay, andornamental decoration of all sorts, and his choiceof woods is always governed by good taste. His At Fritz Gurlitts Ludwig vonHoffman carried us into Arcadiawith his handsome youths onsouthern shores. He adores thestatuesque model reminiscent ofPraxiteles and Thorwaldsen, andthis serene humanity is renderedin its natural bearing or arranged154. GAUZE EMBROIDERY. DESIGNED BY ERNST AUFSEESER ; WORKED BYKATHLEEN AUFSEESER
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