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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.62133#0162
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AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
greens, browns, and oranges of other climbing plants
trained over them, harmonize and contrast most beautifully
with the pale buff tints of the brick of which they are built,
with the white sculptured stone-work of the round arched
windows, and with the brilliantly tinted medallions not
unfrequently introduced between windows or on either
side of a portico. On the front of Kaulbach’s house are
two medallions, the ground an intensely brilliant ultra-
marine, and each containing, in relief of pale buff, a beauti-
ful figure of a youth holding by the mane a prancing and
snorting horse. Above each youth is a star.
These houses are generally built of brick of two colours
—our common yellow brick, and brick of a deeper brown;
with these two tints the most beautiful effects and patterns
are obtained. The form of the bricks also often varies, and
thus a great deal of beautiful detail is gained : there is one
mass of red-brick building in the Ludwig Strasse, which,
simply from the manner in which the bricks are laid and
the character of the bricks themselves, is very beautiful.
But there are, again, houses here in Munich where the By-
zantine and Moresco taste has gone so very crazy, that
one grows utterly weary of ornament.
AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
greens, browns, and oranges of other climbing plants
trained over them, harmonize and contrast most beautifully
with the pale buff tints of the brick of which they are built,
with the white sculptured stone-work of the round arched
windows, and with the brilliantly tinted medallions not
unfrequently introduced between windows or on either
side of a portico. On the front of Kaulbach’s house are
two medallions, the ground an intensely brilliant ultra-
marine, and each containing, in relief of pale buff, a beauti-
ful figure of a youth holding by the mane a prancing and
snorting horse. Above each youth is a star.
These houses are generally built of brick of two colours
—our common yellow brick, and brick of a deeper brown;
with these two tints the most beautiful effects and patterns
are obtained. The form of the bricks also often varies, and
thus a great deal of beautiful detail is gained : there is one
mass of red-brick building in the Ludwig Strasse, which,
simply from the manner in which the bricks are laid and
the character of the bricks themselves, is very beautiful.
But there are, again, houses here in Munich where the By-
zantine and Moresco taste has gone so very crazy, that
one grows utterly weary of ornament.