DOI Heft:
Nr. 161 (July, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0092
Studio- Talk
B
be gentle, and then betrays the spell of English have, on the theoretical side of the question at all
influences. Music of the strongest sort came events, won all along the line; but it cannot be
from Otto Reiniger, who is carried off into some- denied that so far as actual practice is concerned
what plentiful sketch-work by his impetuous tern- we have not yet got much beyond the example set
perament. But he has a master's grasp over massy by such men as Olbrich, Behrens, Lauger, and a
clods and gurgling rivers, he loves the excited few others,
moods of nature, the threatenings of the thunder-
storm and the gloomy hour. The posthumous col- The reproach made against the landscape gar-
lection of Philipp Klein of Munich did not suggest den, that it is lacking in expression, empty, and
new opinions on this gifted realist, whose inspira- poor in floral beauty, is not without justification,
tions were drawn from the intimacies of studio life but it is a reproach that holds good even more in
and from mondain experiences. J. J. the case of some of our new gardens designed on
architectural lines. Indeed, there seems to be an
REMEN.—I have already had occasion increasing number of cases in which the bad taste
to draw attention in these pages to the associated with an unbridled imitation of nature
movement that has been going on in has been replaced by an equally objectionable
Germany among artists and architects accumulation of masonry and espalier walls in
who, discontented with
the irrational, purposeless
system of landscape gar-
dening which for several
decades has been in vogue
in Germany and has gone
on degenerating, have
demanded that instead of
an orderless naturalism,
considerations of prac-
tical utility should govern
the planning of the gar-
den—that it should, in
fact, be designed as part of
an architectonic scheme.
In spite of the acrimo-
nious resistance of the
professional landscape
gardeners, these reformers cottage garden atblankenhain, tiiuringia. designed by fr. gildemeister
68
B
be gentle, and then betrays the spell of English have, on the theoretical side of the question at all
influences. Music of the strongest sort came events, won all along the line; but it cannot be
from Otto Reiniger, who is carried off into some- denied that so far as actual practice is concerned
what plentiful sketch-work by his impetuous tern- we have not yet got much beyond the example set
perament. But he has a master's grasp over massy by such men as Olbrich, Behrens, Lauger, and a
clods and gurgling rivers, he loves the excited few others,
moods of nature, the threatenings of the thunder-
storm and the gloomy hour. The posthumous col- The reproach made against the landscape gar-
lection of Philipp Klein of Munich did not suggest den, that it is lacking in expression, empty, and
new opinions on this gifted realist, whose inspira- poor in floral beauty, is not without justification,
tions were drawn from the intimacies of studio life but it is a reproach that holds good even more in
and from mondain experiences. J. J. the case of some of our new gardens designed on
architectural lines. Indeed, there seems to be an
REMEN.—I have already had occasion increasing number of cases in which the bad taste
to draw attention in these pages to the associated with an unbridled imitation of nature
movement that has been going on in has been replaced by an equally objectionable
Germany among artists and architects accumulation of masonry and espalier walls in
who, discontented with
the irrational, purposeless
system of landscape gar-
dening which for several
decades has been in vogue
in Germany and has gone
on degenerating, have
demanded that instead of
an orderless naturalism,
considerations of prac-
tical utility should govern
the planning of the gar-
den—that it should, in
fact, be designed as part of
an architectonic scheme.
In spite of the acrimo-
nious resistance of the
professional landscape
gardeners, these reformers cottage garden atblankenhain, tiiuringia. designed by fr. gildemeister
68