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Volltext: Modern art education, its practical and aesthetic character educationally considered : being part of the Austrian official report on the Vienna world's fair of 1873

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ART EDV CAT ION. 
mermann (teacher in Zwickau), caused a Sensation whicli was 
well justified; and the wisli was tlien repeatedly uttered, that tke 
author might make his plates serviceable to other schools, by 
reproducing them. At the World’s Fair they were likewise to be 
seen, and received the most favorable commendation on all sides. 
When speaking of Saxony, we shall recur to this work more in 
detail. The People’s School at Mayence, which is so excellently 
managed, and the work of whose pupils received such high praise 
at the time of the Exhibition in 1870, unfortunately did not send 
any thing to Yienna. 
In the provinces of Prussia drawing is well managed wherever 
the teacher happens to be versed in the subjectJ This Observation 
very naturally leads us on to the consideration of instruction in 
drawing in Teachers’ Seminaries, whence its cultivation in the 
People’s Schools must necessarily proceed. Down to the present 
this instruction was very incomplete; and, according to the report 
already quoted, it was frequently in danger of dying out altogether, 
owing to the isolated Situation of some of the seminaries. But 
little time being deyoted to drawing, and the drawing-teacher being 
therefore left without adequate employment, the subject was gener- 
ally intrusted to one of the teachers of Science. Suitable teachers 
were to be had only in the larger cities, which is the reason why 
good results were generally obtained in those places. If the later 
regulations in regard to drawing in the People’s Schools are to be 
carried out, the government will have to see to it that due attention 
is paid to the subject in the seminaries. 
In regard to instruction in industrial drawing, the North of Ger- 
many is also still far behind the Southern countries. Not verj' long 
ago, every thing that was done to advance art-industry emanated 
from private societies only, and the Prussian government was the 
most tardy of all the German governments in devoting due atten 
tion to this most important factor of wealth. Up to about ten 
years ago, tliere were no institutions in Prussia capable of extend- 
ing adequate Support to the art-industries, the only exceptlon 
being the “Society of Mechanics ” of Berlin, which was espe- 
cially instrumental in advancing the joinery and the weaving of 
Northern Germany to a certain degree. The Municipal Industrial 
Schools provided for a more general scientific education, rather
	        
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