DOI Heft:
No. 60 (February, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Fred, Alfred W.: The Darmstadt Artists' Colony
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22772#0336
The Darmstadt Artists Co tony
idea of them, showing especially his cleverness in
arranging bedrooms, while the illustrations of
some remarkably good textile work, particularly
that of a carpet, give us a notion of the manner
in which Huber uses decoration. An inspection
of Huber’s work in the Colony reveals the
gradual evolution of-this artist, who, starting with
decoration of a distinctly naturalistic kind, proceeds
by degrees to the more simple, linear, architectural
style, despising all effects obtained by association
with Nature, and obtaining them solely by lines.
This is especially noticeable in the ground-floor
rooms of Gliickert’s house, where, finally, the whole
scheme of the ornamentation is repeated on a
portiere.
In Habich’s house one side of the dining-room,
a recess in the wall, is deserving of attention on
account of its correct dimensions; and the same
applies to a small bedroom, with good, simply-
shaped furniture, in which the effect is obtained
by the excellent proportions and the decorative
division of the surfaces. Habich is weak when he
attempts elegant, delicate forms. He has no gift
in that direction; or, perhaps, it is only that he
has failed to find the right manner of expressing
his conception of elegance.
In Gliickert’s house the maid’s bedroom is a
great success. The room has been separated
into two sections by a change in the level (the
angle of the window has been raised) and by a
division in the centre (longitudinally), of which
the window portion contains the bed, wash-stand,
and chest of drawers, and in such a manner
that the bed, which has also been placed longi-
tudinally, with the head to one of the walls, stands
free in the room, the wardrobes and washstand,
connected together, being inserted in the wall
opposite. The lower part of the room contains
a table, seats, and wardrobe drawers, and may be
used as a living-room. In this house, which
represents the type of a middle-class dwelling,
many of the details are good; an armchair, with
cut-out back, is especially noticeable, as being a
successful effort to combine comfort and con-
venience. I do not think Huber is the man to
increase the productiveness of art-handicraft in a
large city. But the middle classes of medium-sized
and smaller German towns and owners of country
BEDROOM
BY P. HUBER
272
idea of them, showing especially his cleverness in
arranging bedrooms, while the illustrations of
some remarkably good textile work, particularly
that of a carpet, give us a notion of the manner
in which Huber uses decoration. An inspection
of Huber’s work in the Colony reveals the
gradual evolution of-this artist, who, starting with
decoration of a distinctly naturalistic kind, proceeds
by degrees to the more simple, linear, architectural
style, despising all effects obtained by association
with Nature, and obtaining them solely by lines.
This is especially noticeable in the ground-floor
rooms of Gliickert’s house, where, finally, the whole
scheme of the ornamentation is repeated on a
portiere.
In Habich’s house one side of the dining-room,
a recess in the wall, is deserving of attention on
account of its correct dimensions; and the same
applies to a small bedroom, with good, simply-
shaped furniture, in which the effect is obtained
by the excellent proportions and the decorative
division of the surfaces. Habich is weak when he
attempts elegant, delicate forms. He has no gift
in that direction; or, perhaps, it is only that he
has failed to find the right manner of expressing
his conception of elegance.
In Gliickert’s house the maid’s bedroom is a
great success. The room has been separated
into two sections by a change in the level (the
angle of the window has been raised) and by a
division in the centre (longitudinally), of which
the window portion contains the bed, wash-stand,
and chest of drawers, and in such a manner
that the bed, which has also been placed longi-
tudinally, with the head to one of the walls, stands
free in the room, the wardrobes and washstand,
connected together, being inserted in the wall
opposite. The lower part of the room contains
a table, seats, and wardrobe drawers, and may be
used as a living-room. In this house, which
represents the type of a middle-class dwelling,
many of the details are good; an armchair, with
cut-out back, is especially noticeable, as being a
successful effort to combine comfort and con-
venience. I do not think Huber is the man to
increase the productiveness of art-handicraft in a
large city. But the middle classes of medium-sized
and smaller German towns and owners of country
BEDROOM
BY P. HUBER
272