DOI Heft:
No. 131 (February, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Singer, Hans Wolfgang: Arts and crafts at Dresden
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0072
Arts and Crafts at Dresden
again, a new style must
result, for no man can
construct anything by hand
without in the long run
putting some of his soul
into it.
He started a little es-
tablishment in 1899, with
three workmen, and they
produced small household
articles. It was a risky
venture, for of course as
to prices he could not
compete with the machine-
made products of the ware-
houses. He has recently
opened an exhibition of
over thirty fully-furnished
rooms from designs by
the artists, Baillie Scott,
nook in a bachelor's living-room designed by e. h. walther , „ ^ ,j
Behrens, Von Geldern
Egmont, Hempel, Krause,
production of applied art is concerned. Its old stand- Mackintosh, Meinhold, Nicolai, Riemerschmied,
ing had been completely lost; and people, looking Roessler, Schaudt, Thiele, Walther, &c. From
for new original work, turned their eyes towards this it appears that he has won the day, which is
Munich, Darmstadt and Stuttgart, or Vienna. Mr. proved further by the circumstance that his
Schmidt has the sole management. He is an artisan establishment occupies a whole building now, and
himself, and was filled with a strong love for the good employs a hundred workers, while it has been
old days of true handicraft. It was not, primarily, entrusted with the design and construction of the
that he had any new style of furnishing in view; representative Hall of the Saxon Government at
what he wished to see was that the customary the St. Louis Exhibition,
machine furniture should
yield its place in the
favour of the purchaser to .
the production of the hand.
The former was utterly
lifeless, and the mere me-
chanism of the machinery
has caused changes of
form and construction
totally adverse to the
real purpose of the object
constructed. For ex-
ample, machinery has not
constructed chairs as chairs .
should be constructed;
but the principles of
constructing chairs have
been changed in order to I 1 '^H^UBifc^fc.
fall in with those of ^^"^v^yHp ^^^Rl^M -
machinery. Besides this, IpWN JjBHr^ -j^^UBSB^
Mr. Schmidt also knew
that when once handicraft L~ ~" ~
came to its right position bedroom designed by nicolai
56
again, a new style must
result, for no man can
construct anything by hand
without in the long run
putting some of his soul
into it.
He started a little es-
tablishment in 1899, with
three workmen, and they
produced small household
articles. It was a risky
venture, for of course as
to prices he could not
compete with the machine-
made products of the ware-
houses. He has recently
opened an exhibition of
over thirty fully-furnished
rooms from designs by
the artists, Baillie Scott,
nook in a bachelor's living-room designed by e. h. walther , „ ^ ,j
Behrens, Von Geldern
Egmont, Hempel, Krause,
production of applied art is concerned. Its old stand- Mackintosh, Meinhold, Nicolai, Riemerschmied,
ing had been completely lost; and people, looking Roessler, Schaudt, Thiele, Walther, &c. From
for new original work, turned their eyes towards this it appears that he has won the day, which is
Munich, Darmstadt and Stuttgart, or Vienna. Mr. proved further by the circumstance that his
Schmidt has the sole management. He is an artisan establishment occupies a whole building now, and
himself, and was filled with a strong love for the good employs a hundred workers, while it has been
old days of true handicraft. It was not, primarily, entrusted with the design and construction of the
that he had any new style of furnishing in view; representative Hall of the Saxon Government at
what he wished to see was that the customary the St. Louis Exhibition,
machine furniture should
yield its place in the
favour of the purchaser to .
the production of the hand.
The former was utterly
lifeless, and the mere me-
chanism of the machinery
has caused changes of
form and construction
totally adverse to the
real purpose of the object
constructed. For ex-
ample, machinery has not
constructed chairs as chairs .
should be constructed;
but the principles of
constructing chairs have
been changed in order to I 1 '^H^UBifc^fc.
fall in with those of ^^"^v^yHp ^^^Rl^M -
machinery. Besides this, IpWN JjBHr^ -j^^UBSB^
Mr. Schmidt also knew
that when once handicraft L~ ~" ~
came to its right position bedroom designed by nicolai
56