DOI issue:
No. 98 (May, 1901)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0321
Studio-Talk
The educational value of this museum stamps it
as worthy of a permanent place amongst the
municipal institutions, and as private subscriptions
are flowing in towards its projected purchase, it is
hoped by many that a sufficient sum may be
forthcoming out of Corporation funds to complete
the necessary amount before the break-up and
dispersal of the collection can occur.
H. B. B.
DRESDEN.—The accompanying illus-
trations will help to make the
readers of The Studio acquainted
with decorative architectural work
as it is produced in Germany to-day. Messrs.
Schilling & Graebner are the authors of some of
our most prominent recent structures. They began,
DOOR BY SCHILLING AND GRAEBNER
DOOR BY SCHILLING AND GRAEBNER
as they could not well avoid doing, owing to the
conservative tendencies of their employers, by re-
producing former styles of architecture and
gradually rejuvenating them.
The spread of the Arts and Crafts movement
all over the world has been enormous, even in
Germany, within the last couple of years. It has
completely broken the bonds of tradition, and has
made many people willing to receive and sanction
modern principles and notions who heretofore
believed firmly that art in architecture could mani-
fest itself solely by the copying of old famous
buildings. Early in 1897 our Church of the Holy
Cross took fire, and it was completely gutted,
nothing but the bare walls remaining standing. It
is a venerable building, a landmark, a figure in the
history of Dresden, and one would have supposed
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The educational value of this museum stamps it
as worthy of a permanent place amongst the
municipal institutions, and as private subscriptions
are flowing in towards its projected purchase, it is
hoped by many that a sufficient sum may be
forthcoming out of Corporation funds to complete
the necessary amount before the break-up and
dispersal of the collection can occur.
H. B. B.
DRESDEN.—The accompanying illus-
trations will help to make the
readers of The Studio acquainted
with decorative architectural work
as it is produced in Germany to-day. Messrs.
Schilling & Graebner are the authors of some of
our most prominent recent structures. They began,
DOOR BY SCHILLING AND GRAEBNER
DOOR BY SCHILLING AND GRAEBNER
as they could not well avoid doing, owing to the
conservative tendencies of their employers, by re-
producing former styles of architecture and
gradually rejuvenating them.
The spread of the Arts and Crafts movement
all over the world has been enormous, even in
Germany, within the last couple of years. It has
completely broken the bonds of tradition, and has
made many people willing to receive and sanction
modern principles and notions who heretofore
believed firmly that art in architecture could mani-
fest itself solely by the copying of old famous
buildings. Early in 1897 our Church of the Holy
Cross took fire, and it was completely gutted,
nothing but the bare walls remaining standing. It
is a venerable building, a landmark, a figure in the
history of Dresden, and one would have supposed
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