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#0285
The Darmstadt Artists Colony
idea of them, showing especially his cleverness in has failed to find the right manner of expressing
arranging bedrooms, while the illustrations of his conception of elegance.
some remarkably good textile work, particularly In Gliickert's house the maid's bedroom is a
that of a carpet, give us a notion of the manner great success. The room has been separated
in which Huber uses decoration. An inspection into two sections by a change in the level (the
of Ruber's work in the Colony reveals the angle of the window has been raised) and by a
gradual evolution of this artist, who, starting with division in the centre (longitudinally), of which
decoration of a distinctly naturalistic kind, proceeds the window portion contains the bed, wash-stand,
by degrees to the more simple, linear, architectural and chest of drawers, and in such a manner
style, despising all effects obtained by association that the bed, which has also been placed longi-
with Nature, and obtaining them solely by lines, tudinally, with the head to one of the walls, stands
This is especially noticeable in the ground-floor free in the room, the wardrobes and washstand,
rooms of Gliickert's house, where, finally, the whole connected together, being inserted in the wall
scheme of the ornamentation is repeated on a opposite. The lower part of the room contains
portiere. a table, seats, and wardrobe drawers, and may be
In Habich's house one side ot the dining-room, used as a living-room. In this house, which
a recess in the wall, is deserving of attention on represents the type of a middle-class dwelling,
account of its correct dimensions; and the same many of the details are good ; an armchair, with
applies to a small bedroom, with good, simply- cut-out back, is especially noticeable, as being a
shaped furniture, in which the effect is obtained successful effort to combine comfort and con-
by the excellent proportions and the decorative venience. I do not think Huber is the man to
division of the surfaces. Habich is weak when he increase the productiveness of art-handicraft in a
attempts elegant, delicate forms. He has no gift large city. But the middle classes of medium-sized
in that direction; or, perhaps, it is only that he and smaller German towns and owners of country
BEDROOM
272
BY P. HUBER
idea of them, showing especially his cleverness in has failed to find the right manner of expressing
arranging bedrooms, while the illustrations of his conception of elegance.
some remarkably good textile work, particularly In Gliickert's house the maid's bedroom is a
that of a carpet, give us a notion of the manner great success. The room has been separated
in which Huber uses decoration. An inspection into two sections by a change in the level (the
of Ruber's work in the Colony reveals the angle of the window has been raised) and by a
gradual evolution of this artist, who, starting with division in the centre (longitudinally), of which
decoration of a distinctly naturalistic kind, proceeds the window portion contains the bed, wash-stand,
by degrees to the more simple, linear, architectural and chest of drawers, and in such a manner
style, despising all effects obtained by association that the bed, which has also been placed longi-
with Nature, and obtaining them solely by lines, tudinally, with the head to one of the walls, stands
This is especially noticeable in the ground-floor free in the room, the wardrobes and washstand,
rooms of Gliickert's house, where, finally, the whole connected together, being inserted in the wall
scheme of the ornamentation is repeated on a opposite. The lower part of the room contains
portiere. a table, seats, and wardrobe drawers, and may be
In Habich's house one side ot the dining-room, used as a living-room. In this house, which
a recess in the wall, is deserving of attention on represents the type of a middle-class dwelling,
account of its correct dimensions; and the same many of the details are good ; an armchair, with
applies to a small bedroom, with good, simply- cut-out back, is especially noticeable, as being a
shaped furniture, in which the effect is obtained successful effort to combine comfort and con-
by the excellent proportions and the decorative venience. I do not think Huber is the man to
division of the surfaces. Habich is weak when he increase the productiveness of art-handicraft in a
attempts elegant, delicate forms. He has no gift large city. But the middle classes of medium-sized
in that direction; or, perhaps, it is only that he and smaller German towns and owners of country
BEDROOM
272
BY P. HUBER