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Studio: international art — 40.1907

DOI Heft:
Nr. 170 (May 1907)
DOI Artikel:
Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20774#0347

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Studio-Talk

RHEINGOLD RESTAURANT, BERLIN

to a field in which he received recognition at
the Salon.

These are but a few of the many fine works in
an exhibition distinguished for general excellence.
If further mention be made it should be of a gem-like
picture that must surely attract the visitor on enter-
ing or leaving the East Room. “ Of a Fool and his
Folly there is no End” is a subject skilfully handled
by Henry Heneage Finch,
the oak panelling, the pink
drapery, the curling feathers,
the long, dark chestnut hair,
the exquisite modelling of
the figure in the sleeping
woman, contrasted with the
all but ugly features of the
jester, and the perfect com-
bination of colour, giving
the picture a high position
among the works at the
1907 exhibition. J. T.

showed good judgment in
selecting as the architect
Professor Bruno Schmitz, a
genius among German mon-
ument builders, and creator
of the monument to Kaiser
Wilhelm I. at Rheineck,
near Coblenz. The building
with its series of gigantic
halls and its lavish display
of precious materials was
originally planned for con-
certs and meetings, but
had to be reduced to the
position of a wine restau-
rant, owing to difficulties
raised by the police in
regard to vehicular traffic.
Friends of art hope that it
may still some day be used
for the objects for which it
was destined, and to which
it owes the spirit of grandeur and solemnity which
everywhere invests the building. This has been
brought about more particularly by the absolute
avoidance of conventional ornament and colour
effects. Monumental proportions and the natural
colour of the materials employed, such as bronze,
silver, onyx, marble, granite, ebony, mahogany,
decide the total impression. Bruno Schmitz’s style
of restrained force reminds us of Etruscan, early

BRUNO SCHMITZ, ARCHITECT

Berlin. —The

opening of the
“ Rheingold ”
Restaurant in
the Bellevue Strasse was
an architectural event of
the first order for our capi-
tal. It has been built for
the firm of Aschinger, who

RHEINGOLD RESTAURANT, BERLIN: THE “KAISER” SALOON.

BRUNO SCHMITZ, ARCHITECT

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