DOI issue:
No. 139 (September, 1908)
DOI article:Schölermann, Wilhelm: The Hessian National Exhibition at Darmstadt
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28255#0236
The Hessian National Exhibition at Darmstadt
F A HILLSIDE GARDEN AT THE HESSIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION,
DARMSTADT, DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT LUDWIG F. FUCHS
there can te no two opinions. Very pronounced
and clear in the outlines, the architecture is monu-
mental and is quite free from all tricks or make-
believe devices. There are three principal rooms,
spacious and lofty, and three smaller compjrt-
ments for the closer inspection of works of the
pen, pencil, or burin. The economy of space here
is strikingly convincing. The light from above or
from the side windows may be admitted or excluded
at discretion. By means of shutters, window
spaces are available for hanging pictures in case of
need, and wooden partitions, which may
be taken away or installed at pleasure,
make seven or eight rooms out of one !
It is, in fact, a similar system, though on
a larger scale, to that which the architect
initiated some ten years back in Vienna
for the small galleries of the Austrian
Secessionis's. A fine court with fountain
and flowers provides an exit with a view
across the gardens towards the “Plata-
nenhain,” a grove of beautifully grown
plane trees, on the way to the refresh-
ment building. In the “Blumenhof” or
Flower Court opportunity is provided for
the display of sculpture of monumental
dimensions, and so we find a fountain by
Robert Cauer, and plaster groups by
Otto Steigerwald.
The Fine Art section comprises modern
painting and sculpture, exhibited by
artists of native birth or residing within
the domains of Ernst Ludwig. There are
fine_examples of local landscape by Prof.
218
Eugen Bracht, a Hessian now
settled in Dresden—Otzberg in
the Odenwald, Taunusand Main,
and a canvas of magnificent dash
called Oak Trees in the Park of
Kranichstein. Karl Kiistner is
also well represented by strong
landscape work, and the Bantzer
group deserves to be specially
noted because they are all save
one Plessian in motif-—Hessian
peasant types and customs.
Ludwig von Hofmann has con-
tributed six large decorative
panels in tempera, which adorn
the walls of the magnificent
Warte - halle or waiting hall
built for the fashionable Nau-
heim Baths, as well as some
pastel studies done during his
recent journey to Athens and Corfu, when he was
accompanied by the poet Dr. Gerhardt Hauptmann;
and in addition he exhibits a collection of scene-
compositions for Maeterlinck’s drama “ Aglavaine et
Selysette,” as it is played in Berlin by the Kam-
merspiele of the Deutsche Theater. Two collec-
tions of paintings and pen-drawings by Edmund
Harburger and Heinz Heim, both men who died
too early, yet lived not in vain, are worthy of
inspection.
There is an admirable selection of animal
PART OF THE HILLSIDE GARDEN OF WHICH A PLAN IS
GIVEN ABOVE
F A HILLSIDE GARDEN AT THE HESSIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION,
DARMSTADT, DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT LUDWIG F. FUCHS
there can te no two opinions. Very pronounced
and clear in the outlines, the architecture is monu-
mental and is quite free from all tricks or make-
believe devices. There are three principal rooms,
spacious and lofty, and three smaller compjrt-
ments for the closer inspection of works of the
pen, pencil, or burin. The economy of space here
is strikingly convincing. The light from above or
from the side windows may be admitted or excluded
at discretion. By means of shutters, window
spaces are available for hanging pictures in case of
need, and wooden partitions, which may
be taken away or installed at pleasure,
make seven or eight rooms out of one !
It is, in fact, a similar system, though on
a larger scale, to that which the architect
initiated some ten years back in Vienna
for the small galleries of the Austrian
Secessionis's. A fine court with fountain
and flowers provides an exit with a view
across the gardens towards the “Plata-
nenhain,” a grove of beautifully grown
plane trees, on the way to the refresh-
ment building. In the “Blumenhof” or
Flower Court opportunity is provided for
the display of sculpture of monumental
dimensions, and so we find a fountain by
Robert Cauer, and plaster groups by
Otto Steigerwald.
The Fine Art section comprises modern
painting and sculpture, exhibited by
artists of native birth or residing within
the domains of Ernst Ludwig. There are
fine_examples of local landscape by Prof.
218
Eugen Bracht, a Hessian now
settled in Dresden—Otzberg in
the Odenwald, Taunusand Main,
and a canvas of magnificent dash
called Oak Trees in the Park of
Kranichstein. Karl Kiistner is
also well represented by strong
landscape work, and the Bantzer
group deserves to be specially
noted because they are all save
one Plessian in motif-—Hessian
peasant types and customs.
Ludwig von Hofmann has con-
tributed six large decorative
panels in tempera, which adorn
the walls of the magnificent
Warte - halle or waiting hall
built for the fashionable Nau-
heim Baths, as well as some
pastel studies done during his
recent journey to Athens and Corfu, when he was
accompanied by the poet Dr. Gerhardt Hauptmann;
and in addition he exhibits a collection of scene-
compositions for Maeterlinck’s drama “ Aglavaine et
Selysette,” as it is played in Berlin by the Kam-
merspiele of the Deutsche Theater. Two collec-
tions of paintings and pen-drawings by Edmund
Harburger and Heinz Heim, both men who died
too early, yet lived not in vain, are worthy of
inspection.
There is an admirable selection of animal
PART OF THE HILLSIDE GARDEN OF WHICH A PLAN IS
GIVEN ABOVE