DOI Heft:
No. 106 (January, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Fred, Alfred W.: The Darmstadt artists' colony
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0283
The Darmstadt Artists Colony
of furniture, the response is a sigh. " There naturally comprises a great range of peculiarities,
is no simple modern furniture," he declares, of typical values. Essentially "German" is
" It is either beyond one's means or doesn't Heinrich Vogeler, the painter and etcher of
fit into the home and the life of ordinary man." Worpsvvede, who often designs furniture, in his
Those who thus relieve their feelings by sighs, graceful yet angular manner. " German," too, was
not always without cause, will, to judge by his the entire " Biedermaier" style. " German," too,
work in the Darmstadt Colony, find in Patriz the fashion of richly - carved furniture ; and
Huber a ready helper, and will derive from his " German" the desire to live as the French and
interiors the conviction that simple middle-class Italians of former centuries lived. But when I
furniture may be produced which will meet modern apply the epithets " German " and "middle-class "
art requirements. Middle-class—bilrgerlich—the to Huber's interiors much is expressed. In the
word is very expressive of a certain kind of interior first place the artist is conscious of the fact that
architecture. And if we seek for another signifi- he is raising dwellings and designing furniture
cant word, " German" soon suggests itself, for ordinary men. He begins by excluding
" Middle- class" and "German"—this is ' indeed extravagance in colour and outline. His aim is
the tendency in all the rooms of Habich's house, comfort combined with agreeable effect. Of course
of Gliickert's house, and in the bachelors' dwellings he is also endeavouring to found a new style,
which have been designed by Huber in the Colony. Only he seeks his effects less by designing rooms
Now, the word " German "—in using which we have strongly individual—individual, that is, as regards
to take in all shades of Germanism from the utmost the inmates—than by inventing new forms for typical
north to the extreme south, including Munich art, furniture. Any number of people could live in
for instance, but excluding that of the Viennese— Gliickert's house; even Habich's house, which has
BEDROOM DESIGNED BY PATRIZ HUBER
270
of furniture, the response is a sigh. " There naturally comprises a great range of peculiarities,
is no simple modern furniture," he declares, of typical values. Essentially "German" is
" It is either beyond one's means or doesn't Heinrich Vogeler, the painter and etcher of
fit into the home and the life of ordinary man." Worpsvvede, who often designs furniture, in his
Those who thus relieve their feelings by sighs, graceful yet angular manner. " German," too, was
not always without cause, will, to judge by his the entire " Biedermaier" style. " German," too,
work in the Darmstadt Colony, find in Patriz the fashion of richly - carved furniture ; and
Huber a ready helper, and will derive from his " German" the desire to live as the French and
interiors the conviction that simple middle-class Italians of former centuries lived. But when I
furniture may be produced which will meet modern apply the epithets " German " and "middle-class "
art requirements. Middle-class—bilrgerlich—the to Huber's interiors much is expressed. In the
word is very expressive of a certain kind of interior first place the artist is conscious of the fact that
architecture. And if we seek for another signifi- he is raising dwellings and designing furniture
cant word, " German" soon suggests itself, for ordinary men. He begins by excluding
" Middle- class" and "German"—this is ' indeed extravagance in colour and outline. His aim is
the tendency in all the rooms of Habich's house, comfort combined with agreeable effect. Of course
of Gliickert's house, and in the bachelors' dwellings he is also endeavouring to found a new style,
which have been designed by Huber in the Colony. Only he seeks his effects less by designing rooms
Now, the word " German "—in using which we have strongly individual—individual, that is, as regards
to take in all shades of Germanism from the utmost the inmates—than by inventing new forms for typical
north to the extreme south, including Munich art, furniture. Any number of people could live in
for instance, but excluding that of the Viennese— Gliickert's house; even Habich's house, which has
BEDROOM DESIGNED BY PATRIZ HUBER
270