DOI Heft:
Nr. 117 (December 1902)
DOI Artikel:The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art at Turin, The German section
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19877#0207
Turin Exhibition
BUST OF NIETZSCHE BY C. STOEVING
his house at Darmstadt, and the Mahogany-Room
in Mr. Alter's house is good in many ways. Much
may yet be expected of Behrens • for though he has
not yet shown a great amount of versatility in his
work, he is a sound, sincere, earnest, and thoroughly
reliable worker.
Mr. Anton Huber, the Berlin architect, exhibits
the design for his own studio, which to some
extent resembles the work of Behrens, though it
is freer in execution, and in some respects more
harmonious.
Other noteworthy exhibits are those of the
society known as the " Vereinigte Werkstatten
fiir Kunst im Handwerk" of Munich, under
the direction of the painter F. A. O. Kruger,
with whom the artists, Bruno Paul, Bernard
Pankok, and Hermann Obrist, are the able
collaborators ; and the designs executed after
the drawings of Bruno Paul, Pankok, and
Friedrich Adler, by the " Konigliche Lehr-
und Versuchswerkstatte," of Stuttgart, also under
the direction of Kruger, who is now Professor
of Art in the Government Schools of the same
town.
Some of these rooms had already been shown in
Paris, and in last year's Exhibition of Arts and
Crafts at Munich and Dresden, but certain
decorative details have since been added, notably
in the case of the Room by Bruno Paul, and
a Smoking-room by Bernard Pankok, the latter
of which is an example of the too frequent use
of the curved line, which is the great defect of the
Van der Velde School. It contrasts remarkably
with the Entrance-Hall of F. Adler, of simple
design, and the Drawing-room of Bruno Paul,
which is one of the most interesting designs
in the exhibition, and presents a marked con-
trast with the geometrical style of Olbrich, or of
Behrens, as well as with what may be char-
acterised as the undulating style of Van der
Velde. The chairs and cabinets, indeed, remind
us rather of French work, but they all bear the
stamp of originality. The "Vereinigte Werkstatten,"
or Associated Manufactories of Munich, which
were the first to espouse the cause of modern
decorative art in Munich, complete their show
CLOCK DESIGNED BY F. MORAWE
EXECUTED BY THE
VEREINIGTE WERKSTATTEN, MUNICH
i9S
BUST OF NIETZSCHE BY C. STOEVING
his house at Darmstadt, and the Mahogany-Room
in Mr. Alter's house is good in many ways. Much
may yet be expected of Behrens • for though he has
not yet shown a great amount of versatility in his
work, he is a sound, sincere, earnest, and thoroughly
reliable worker.
Mr. Anton Huber, the Berlin architect, exhibits
the design for his own studio, which to some
extent resembles the work of Behrens, though it
is freer in execution, and in some respects more
harmonious.
Other noteworthy exhibits are those of the
society known as the " Vereinigte Werkstatten
fiir Kunst im Handwerk" of Munich, under
the direction of the painter F. A. O. Kruger,
with whom the artists, Bruno Paul, Bernard
Pankok, and Hermann Obrist, are the able
collaborators ; and the designs executed after
the drawings of Bruno Paul, Pankok, and
Friedrich Adler, by the " Konigliche Lehr-
und Versuchswerkstatte," of Stuttgart, also under
the direction of Kruger, who is now Professor
of Art in the Government Schools of the same
town.
Some of these rooms had already been shown in
Paris, and in last year's Exhibition of Arts and
Crafts at Munich and Dresden, but certain
decorative details have since been added, notably
in the case of the Room by Bruno Paul, and
a Smoking-room by Bernard Pankok, the latter
of which is an example of the too frequent use
of the curved line, which is the great defect of the
Van der Velde School. It contrasts remarkably
with the Entrance-Hall of F. Adler, of simple
design, and the Drawing-room of Bruno Paul,
which is one of the most interesting designs
in the exhibition, and presents a marked con-
trast with the geometrical style of Olbrich, or of
Behrens, as well as with what may be char-
acterised as the undulating style of Van der
Velde. The chairs and cabinets, indeed, remind
us rather of French work, but they all bear the
stamp of originality. The "Vereinigte Werkstatten,"
or Associated Manufactories of Munich, which
were the first to espouse the cause of modern
decorative art in Munich, complete their show
CLOCK DESIGNED BY F. MORAWE
EXECUTED BY THE
VEREINIGTE WERKSTATTEN, MUNICH
i9S