DOI Heft:
No. 98 (May, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0322
Studio- Talk
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that public and clergy would have insisted upon
having it rebuilt exactly on the old lines. On the
contrary, the work was entrusted to Schilling &
Graebner, and they were left free to conduct it as
they saw fit. Thus it is now a most interesting
example of an attempt to modernise an old shell;
and it is the first attempt, in Germany at least, to
apply a modern style of decoration on a grand
scale.
Like most of the newest artists, Schilling &
Graebner are very versatile. Besides planning and
constructing houses, they design all the decorations
and model the sculptured work. As some of
this in the church mentioned consists of statues,
they are really as much sculptors as architects.
I suppose English architects have no idea of
the way their colleagues are handicapped here.
For example, within the city pales none but
stone (or iron) staircases are allowed ; you may
not place your house within your lot where
you like, but must keep it in a line with your
neighbour's ; rooms must be of a certain height
in proportion to their size, and so on. This has
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naturally brought it about that all private houses
display to a great degree barren conformity.
Architects who are now endeavouring to build
houses according to new ideas, to meet the
wishes of their employers, and erect something
especially adapted to his mode of living, have to
fight for every nook, for everything out of the
common arrangement. This, doubtless, has been
one of the causes why German domestic architec-
ture has not developed so promisingly as that of
other countries. __
Schilling & Graebner have recently finished a
house for Gerard Hauptmann here. Hauptmann
is Germany's foremost dramatic author. Among
his popular plays there is one, "Die versunkene
Glocke" which is full of fairy mythology. In
designing the decoration of Hauptmann's Dresden
residence, Schilling & Graebner have tried to
weave reminiscences of this fairy poetry about it.
They have been clever enough to keep within
strict bounds and merely hint at their subject, not
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DOOR BY SCHILLING AND GRAEBNER
that public and clergy would have insisted upon
having it rebuilt exactly on the old lines. On the
contrary, the work was entrusted to Schilling &
Graebner, and they were left free to conduct it as
they saw fit. Thus it is now a most interesting
example of an attempt to modernise an old shell;
and it is the first attempt, in Germany at least, to
apply a modern style of decoration on a grand
scale.
Like most of the newest artists, Schilling &
Graebner are very versatile. Besides planning and
constructing houses, they design all the decorations
and model the sculptured work. As some of
this in the church mentioned consists of statues,
they are really as much sculptors as architects.
I suppose English architects have no idea of
the way their colleagues are handicapped here.
For example, within the city pales none but
stone (or iron) staircases are allowed ; you may
not place your house within your lot where
you like, but must keep it in a line with your
neighbour's ; rooms must be of a certain height
in proportion to their size, and so on. This has
284
naturally brought it about that all private houses
display to a great degree barren conformity.
Architects who are now endeavouring to build
houses according to new ideas, to meet the
wishes of their employers, and erect something
especially adapted to his mode of living, have to
fight for every nook, for everything out of the
common arrangement. This, doubtless, has been
one of the causes why German domestic architec-
ture has not developed so promisingly as that of
other countries. __
Schilling & Graebner have recently finished a
house for Gerard Hauptmann here. Hauptmann
is Germany's foremost dramatic author. Among
his popular plays there is one, "Die versunkene
Glocke" which is full of fairy mythology. In
designing the decoration of Hauptmann's Dresden
residence, Schilling & Graebner have tried to
weave reminiscences of this fairy poetry about it.
They have been clever enough to keep within
strict bounds and merely hint at their subject, not
VASE BY PH. WOLFERS