DOI issue:
No. 125 (August, 1903)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19879#0244
Studio- Talk
THE NEW ACADEMY OF ARTS, BERLIN MESSRS. KAYSER AND GROSZHEIM, ARCHITECTS
THE NEW ACADEMY OF ARTS, BERLIN : THE INNER COURTYARD MESSRS. KAYSER AND GROSZHEIM, ARCHITECTS
works and imposing public buildings. As an work of the architects Eugen Kiihn and Paul
instance of how Berlin is becoming imbued Baumgarten, and has been erected in Altona,
with artistic feeling, the following is interesting, near Hamburg. Frau Hedwig von Nyegaard left
At all public functions certain privileged photo- a sum of money to be applied to the founding
graphers are usually allowed to use their cameras; of a home for ladies in reduced circumstances,
but at the opening of the new Academy of Arts those from Schleswig - Holstein to have the
and Royal High School for Music, which took place preference. The Nyegaard Institution was to be
recently, with great pomp and ceremony, the composed of a series of fourteen houses containing,
permission was refused by the police on the in all, sixty-three residences, forming a uniform whole,
ground that " photographers with cameras would The task set the architects was no easy one, for
spoil the artistic effect of the scene ! " three large groups o. buildings, which fronted
- on to four different streets, formed eight long
The imposing building'illustrated on p. 228 is the fa§ades, which had to be decorated at a com-
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THE NEW ACADEMY OF ARTS, BERLIN MESSRS. KAYSER AND GROSZHEIM, ARCHITECTS
THE NEW ACADEMY OF ARTS, BERLIN : THE INNER COURTYARD MESSRS. KAYSER AND GROSZHEIM, ARCHITECTS
works and imposing public buildings. As an work of the architects Eugen Kiihn and Paul
instance of how Berlin is becoming imbued Baumgarten, and has been erected in Altona,
with artistic feeling, the following is interesting, near Hamburg. Frau Hedwig von Nyegaard left
At all public functions certain privileged photo- a sum of money to be applied to the founding
graphers are usually allowed to use their cameras; of a home for ladies in reduced circumstances,
but at the opening of the new Academy of Arts those from Schleswig - Holstein to have the
and Royal High School for Music, which took place preference. The Nyegaard Institution was to be
recently, with great pomp and ceremony, the composed of a series of fourteen houses containing,
permission was refused by the police on the in all, sixty-three residences, forming a uniform whole,
ground that " photographers with cameras would The task set the architects was no easy one, for
spoil the artistic effect of the scene ! " three large groups o. buildings, which fronted
- on to four different streets, formed eight long
The imposing building'illustrated on p. 228 is the fa§ades, which had to be decorated at a com-
229