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Englische Graphik
 - Zeichnungen, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, Lithographien, Aquarelle

Englische Graphik

Zeichnungen, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, Lithographien, Aquarelle

Juni - August 1923

Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zürich

 

Englische Kunst der Gegenwart, bei uns fast unbekannt, gibt in dieser Ausstellung kraftvoll Zeugnis von ihrem Leben. Ueberlieferte Naturtreue, Liebe zur Wirklichkeit zeigt eigenwüchsige Form und zähes Sichbehaupten. Landschaft überwiegt; auch Häusergruppen, Städtebilder fesseln. Figürliches tritt zurück, Akte zumal, die selten nur und in fast französischer Gebärde erscheinen. Tiere sind witzig beseelt im Holzschnitt zu sehen.

Diese offizielle Graphik-Schau des Britischen Museums und des Board of Trade — wer ist berufener sie einzuleiten als Mr. Campbell Dodgson, der umsichtige Konservator eben jenes Britischen Museums, der geistvolle Verfasser des grundlegenden Werkes über den Radierer Charles Meryon, der Herausgeber von "The Print Collectors Quarterly", der Sammler und Kenner!

Sein Vorwort folgt im Urtext, da eine Uebersetzung wohl den Inhalt, nicht aber die geschmackvolle und gewählte Form zu geben vermöchte. Einige wertvolle Leihgaben von Mr. Campbell Dodgson finden sich eingeordnet in die Ausstellung, wofür ebenso zu danken ist wie für die tätigen Bemühungen von Herrn Generalkonsul Maxse (Zürich) und Herrn Major Longden D. S. O. (Board of Trade) zum Besten des Unternehmens.

W. v. H.

 

 

The present exhibition offers a Survey, as complete as in the circumstances it was possible to make it, of British graphic art of the present day. It does not attempt to illustrate reproductive engraving, but is confined to original prints and drawings. The contributing artists are all living or recently deceased with the exception of Samuel Palmer, Sir F. Seymour Haden, and Sir J. C. Robinson., representatives of an older generation of etchers, whose influence is still potent on their successors of to-day. For it is in etching, more than in any other process, that a conservative tradition and a respect for sound technical practice prevails among English artists. There are many free lances who experiment in unconventional methods, but there is in England, more than in any other country, a powerful, central "School" of etchers, somewhat unimaginative, it may be thought, and lacking in invention, but well trained and gifted with technical skill, which is bound together by the regulations and ESPRIT DE CORPS of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers, of which Haden became, in 1880, the first president. His successor is Sir Frank Short, R. A. Perfect liberty, however, exists for etchers who do not belong to this Society, and many of the most eminent artists, such as D. Y. Cameron, J. McBey, and that unrivalled master of dry-point Muirhead Bone, have held aloof of it.

As regards the other processes, the Senefelder Club forms a similar rallying point, though with less prestige, for the lithographers, and there are societies of more recent formation for the wood-engravers arid the producers of colour prints, whether by wood blocks or other processes. But in the selection of contributors on this occasion little attention has been paid to membership of any of these Societies. The one aim has been to make the exhibition as representative as possible of the best and most interesting work that is being produced by the modern painter-engravers of Great Britain.

Campbell Dodgson.

 

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