DOI Heft:
No. 71 (february 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19231#0073
Studio- Talk
case, did not correspond with the
quantity. The public wandered
listless and unsympathetic through
most of the rooms, until they came
across the galleries devoted to art
handicrafts. Eight rooms had been
given over to this department, and
one had the opportunity of seeing
the older and the newer " tenden-
cies " represented side by side.
A connecting link, as it were,
between the two groups was formed
by a room in the " Biedermeier "
style, arranged by Herr Possen-
bacher, the Court upholsterer and
furnisher, from the designs of the
young architects Helbig and
Haiger. The slang expression,
the " Biedermeier style," signifies
in Germany the fashion evolved
from " the Empire " style of the
first decade of the nineteenth cen-
tury, and adapted to the German
middle-class household. It is
nearly akin to our present style,
in that, although very often some-
what jejune and parochial, it is
plain, homely, and bourgeois. The
room in question is no slavish
imitation of the patterns of the
period in question, but rather a
liberal adaptation of its motifs and
its general comfortable ensemble.
The arrangement of the bow-win-
dow with its seats was particularly
pretty, and some of the fittings,
such as the pianino, the hanging
"lutteur ex garde" byg. devreese lamp,and the gas-stove,harmonised
admirably with the old-fashioned
surroundings.
MUNICH.—Last year Munich had -
again two separate art exhibitions It is gratifying to find that the " Secession " is
—the " Kiinstlergenossenschaft " inaugurating its new home by arranging exhibitions
display in the Glas Palast and during the winter months. The series is opened
that of the " Secession " in the by a display of photographs executed by amateurs
fine State building opposite the Glyptothek in the —one of the best collections seen on the Con-
Konigsplatz. The " Secession" had a small and tinent of recent years, and particularly attrac-
well-selected exhibition, wherein foreign artists, tive as being the first of the kind in Munich,
especially the Englishmen and Scotchmen, were It is different in Hamburg, where Herr Alfred
admirably represented. The large number of Lichtwark, director of the Kunsthalle, has long
Russian and Finnish painters proved a novelty for been in touch with many talented amateur photo-
lhe Munich public, and they were greatly appre- graphers, both men and women, who are doing
C1ated. The works shown at the Glas Palast were much admirable work of real artistic merit—notably
Very numerous, but the quality, as is usually the the brothers Hoffmeister. At Vienna, too, excel-
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case, did not correspond with the
quantity. The public wandered
listless and unsympathetic through
most of the rooms, until they came
across the galleries devoted to art
handicrafts. Eight rooms had been
given over to this department, and
one had the opportunity of seeing
the older and the newer " tenden-
cies " represented side by side.
A connecting link, as it were,
between the two groups was formed
by a room in the " Biedermeier "
style, arranged by Herr Possen-
bacher, the Court upholsterer and
furnisher, from the designs of the
young architects Helbig and
Haiger. The slang expression,
the " Biedermeier style," signifies
in Germany the fashion evolved
from " the Empire " style of the
first decade of the nineteenth cen-
tury, and adapted to the German
middle-class household. It is
nearly akin to our present style,
in that, although very often some-
what jejune and parochial, it is
plain, homely, and bourgeois. The
room in question is no slavish
imitation of the patterns of the
period in question, but rather a
liberal adaptation of its motifs and
its general comfortable ensemble.
The arrangement of the bow-win-
dow with its seats was particularly
pretty, and some of the fittings,
such as the pianino, the hanging
"lutteur ex garde" byg. devreese lamp,and the gas-stove,harmonised
admirably with the old-fashioned
surroundings.
MUNICH.—Last year Munich had -
again two separate art exhibitions It is gratifying to find that the " Secession " is
—the " Kiinstlergenossenschaft " inaugurating its new home by arranging exhibitions
display in the Glas Palast and during the winter months. The series is opened
that of the " Secession " in the by a display of photographs executed by amateurs
fine State building opposite the Glyptothek in the —one of the best collections seen on the Con-
Konigsplatz. The " Secession" had a small and tinent of recent years, and particularly attrac-
well-selected exhibition, wherein foreign artists, tive as being the first of the kind in Munich,
especially the Englishmen and Scotchmen, were It is different in Hamburg, where Herr Alfred
admirably represented. The large number of Lichtwark, director of the Kunsthalle, has long
Russian and Finnish painters proved a novelty for been in touch with many talented amateur photo-
lhe Munich public, and they were greatly appre- graphers, both men and women, who are doing
C1ated. The works shown at the Glas Palast were much admirable work of real artistic merit—notably
Very numerous, but the quality, as is usually the the brothers Hoffmeister. At Vienna, too, excel-
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