. Studio international . SILVER I LA AM) COFFI32 DESIGNED BY PROF. OTTO , EXECUTED BY E. FRIEDMANN Arts and Crafts at Hie Austrian Museum, Vienna. power, and has used gentle pressure by shuttingout all objects which do not come up to a certainstandard from the point of view of art and work-manship. Whereas in former times everybody whowished to do so was allowed to exhibit within themuseum precincts, a policy which often resulted ina sort of show for commercialwares of all kinds, now nothingis to be seen but real works ofart. Some high-minded manu-facturers have come to help,recognis
. Studio international . SILVER I LA AM) COFFI32 DESIGNED BY PROF. OTTO , EXECUTED BY E. FRIEDMANN Arts and Crafts at Hie Austrian Museum, Vienna. power, and has used gentle pressure by shuttingout all objects which do not come up to a certainstandard from the point of view of art and work-manship. Whereas in former times everybody whowished to do so was allowed to exhibit within themuseum precincts, a policy which often resulted ina sort of show for commercialwares of all kinds, now nothingis to be seen but real works ofart. Some high-minded manu-facturers have come to help,recognising that it does not costmore to have beautiful objects,and that in many cases they Hoffmann, Kolo Moser, andother modern artists were ap-pointed professors at theKunstgewerbeschule, and BaronMyrbach its director. For atime the exhibitions held at themuseum were of great worth ;then, owing to matters which do not concern us here, they again fell off in artistic value—copying again became the order of the day; andfinally the exhibitions of modern applied art ceased tobe. On the retirement of Hofrat von Scala, HofratDr. Eduard Leisching was appointed
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