DOI Heft:
No. 137 (August, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Singer, Hans Wolfgang: The fine arts and horticultural exhibition at Düsseldorf
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0255
Ditsseldorf Exhibition
besides, and part of the extensive exhibition ever, and was good only as long as the general
grounds at Dusseldorf has the aspect of a World's public had enough interest in the year's produce of
Fair on a reduced scale, with all its minor attrac- pictures to come and see it and it alone. As I
tions and amusements. have explained elsewhere in this periodical, these
Dusseldorf, like Dresden, has altogether lost its conditions no longer exist. The general public is
prestige in art matters, and the town, which was rather tired of exhibitions ; the keenness of its
sixty years and more ago looked up to as the interest has abated now that it is no longer a
main art centre of Germany, has, for a decade or matter of becoming a partisan to the old or the
two, scarcely been mentioned, except in rather new—the new having won on all sides—and as
unflattering terms. Observing that Dresden, with the exhibitions no longer provide subject-matter
the help of its splendidly managed exhibitions, has for lively discussions on art topics, they must offer
succeeded in regaining its old standing, the artists other attractions to a public constantly in search of
of Dusseldorf have no doubt considered it advisable new excitements and amusement,
to pursue the same plan; and in all likelihood In Munich they hit upon the institution of one-
success will be within their power here as it was man shows of living or dead artists. At Dresden,
there. They possess a very fine exhibition palace, where success has been most signal, new methods
built out of the surplus brought in by the exhibi- of setting an exhibition off to advantage were
tion of 1902 and made over to the town as a gift. resorted to. There the manner of arranging and
Upon the whole the system of arrangement and decorating the rooms attracts the public as much
display obtaining to-day at Dusseldorf is the one as the works of art themselves. The visitor is
still observed in the big annual exhibitions at no longer wearied with endless flights of galleries
Munich and Berlin, which has had its day, how- crowded with canvases.
DUSSELDORF EXHIBITION : THE RODIN ROOM
23 r
besides, and part of the extensive exhibition ever, and was good only as long as the general
grounds at Dusseldorf has the aspect of a World's public had enough interest in the year's produce of
Fair on a reduced scale, with all its minor attrac- pictures to come and see it and it alone. As I
tions and amusements. have explained elsewhere in this periodical, these
Dusseldorf, like Dresden, has altogether lost its conditions no longer exist. The general public is
prestige in art matters, and the town, which was rather tired of exhibitions ; the keenness of its
sixty years and more ago looked up to as the interest has abated now that it is no longer a
main art centre of Germany, has, for a decade or matter of becoming a partisan to the old or the
two, scarcely been mentioned, except in rather new—the new having won on all sides—and as
unflattering terms. Observing that Dresden, with the exhibitions no longer provide subject-matter
the help of its splendidly managed exhibitions, has for lively discussions on art topics, they must offer
succeeded in regaining its old standing, the artists other attractions to a public constantly in search of
of Dusseldorf have no doubt considered it advisable new excitements and amusement,
to pursue the same plan; and in all likelihood In Munich they hit upon the institution of one-
success will be within their power here as it was man shows of living or dead artists. At Dresden,
there. They possess a very fine exhibition palace, where success has been most signal, new methods
built out of the surplus brought in by the exhibi- of setting an exhibition off to advantage were
tion of 1902 and made over to the town as a gift. resorted to. There the manner of arranging and
Upon the whole the system of arrangement and decorating the rooms attracts the public as much
display obtaining to-day at Dusseldorf is the one as the works of art themselves. The visitor is
still observed in the big annual exhibitions at no longer wearied with endless flights of galleries
Munich and Berlin, which has had its day, how- crowded with canvases.
DUSSELDORF EXHIBITION : THE RODIN ROOM
23 r