DOI Heft:
No. 91 (Oct., 1900)
DOI Artikel:Mourey, Gabriel: Round the exhibition, [3]: ,German decorative art'
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19786#0066
Round the Exhibition
" CHAMBRE D'UN AMI DES ARTS " DESIGNED BY RICHARD RIEMERSCHMIED
Grand Duchy of Hesse, thanks to the cultured disposed here and there in the happiest manner—
initiative of the Grand Duke and the Grand is absolutely exquisite. In order to do justice to
Duchess, and if proof of this were needed, it all concerned in this delightful achievement I will'
might be found in this exhibition by the artists of give the names of those who have collaborated
Darmstadt. That sense of depression which, as I with Professor Jos. M. Olbrich, who planned the
have already said, appears to me to pervade the entire scheme. M. Peter Behrens did the wood-
interior decorated by Mr. Riemerschmied, makes carving and several designs for bindings; M.
itself felt in nearly all the departments of the Ger- Rudolf Bosselt, the sculptor, designed the clock-
man exhibition ; for the style is gloomy and austere dial; the glass-work, the carpets, and some of the
—almost sepulchral. Here, however, among the enamels are the production of Professor Hans
Darmstadt artists, everything is bright and joyous, Christiansen ; M. Paul Biirck, the painter, is re-
full of happy fancy and true elegance. Not a sponsible for the hangings and the applied em-
single detail but bears the imprint of a rare under- broideries, while M. Louis Kuppenheim contributed
standing of measure and proportion. All the enamels. His special exhibition of goldsmiths''
cabinet-maker's work is of grey-tinted wood, var- work, displayed elsewhere, is exceedingly inte-
nished; the marqueterie ornamentation is quite resting.
simple in colour and form alike ; the hinges, locks, Hard by the Darmstadt interior is a " modern
and drawer-handles are in copper. The effect of room " in marqueterie, by M. Robert Macco, of
all this—with the bevelled glass of the cabinets, the Heidelberg, from designs by M. Siissenbach, the
bright tints of the wall-hangings and the em- Berlin architect. The cabinet-makers' work and
broidered chair-coverings, the stove with its gleam- marqueterie are remarkable, but the style of the
ing- earthenware panels and brass-work, and the furniture is commonplace, and the decoration too
thousand-and-one rare and beautiful knick-knacks, complicated in its would-be picturesqueness.
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" CHAMBRE D'UN AMI DES ARTS " DESIGNED BY RICHARD RIEMERSCHMIED
Grand Duchy of Hesse, thanks to the cultured disposed here and there in the happiest manner—
initiative of the Grand Duke and the Grand is absolutely exquisite. In order to do justice to
Duchess, and if proof of this were needed, it all concerned in this delightful achievement I will'
might be found in this exhibition by the artists of give the names of those who have collaborated
Darmstadt. That sense of depression which, as I with Professor Jos. M. Olbrich, who planned the
have already said, appears to me to pervade the entire scheme. M. Peter Behrens did the wood-
interior decorated by Mr. Riemerschmied, makes carving and several designs for bindings; M.
itself felt in nearly all the departments of the Ger- Rudolf Bosselt, the sculptor, designed the clock-
man exhibition ; for the style is gloomy and austere dial; the glass-work, the carpets, and some of the
—almost sepulchral. Here, however, among the enamels are the production of Professor Hans
Darmstadt artists, everything is bright and joyous, Christiansen ; M. Paul Biirck, the painter, is re-
full of happy fancy and true elegance. Not a sponsible for the hangings and the applied em-
single detail but bears the imprint of a rare under- broideries, while M. Louis Kuppenheim contributed
standing of measure and proportion. All the enamels. His special exhibition of goldsmiths''
cabinet-maker's work is of grey-tinted wood, var- work, displayed elsewhere, is exceedingly inte-
nished; the marqueterie ornamentation is quite resting.
simple in colour and form alike ; the hinges, locks, Hard by the Darmstadt interior is a " modern
and drawer-handles are in copper. The effect of room " in marqueterie, by M. Robert Macco, of
all this—with the bevelled glass of the cabinets, the Heidelberg, from designs by M. Siissenbach, the
bright tints of the wall-hangings and the em- Berlin architect. The cabinet-makers' work and
broidered chair-coverings, the stove with its gleam- marqueterie are remarkable, but the style of the
ing- earthenware panels and brass-work, and the furniture is commonplace, and the decoration too
thousand-and-one rare and beautiful knick-knacks, complicated in its would-be picturesqueness.
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