DOI Heft:
No. 173 (August, 1907)
DOI Artikel:The Mannheim tercentenary exhibition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0219
The Mannheim Tercentenary Exhibition
THE MANNHEIM TERCEN- It is becoming more and more a recognised fact
TENARY EXHIBITION t^iat: a P'cture m ^e process of creation is strongly
influenced by its surroundings, and when finished
This exhibition is a combination of depends for its effects fully as much on its environ-
painting, sculpture, domestic architecture and ment as on its intrinsic beauty ; it must be in unison
aesthetic garden construction, admirably carried and harmony with its entourage. In Mannheim,
out by a committee working with a mutual aim, Professor Dill and his colleagues have succeeded
and who have also avoided the danger of being in placing together those works which, quite
too extreme. A large portion of the buildings are irrespective of nationality, form a colour scheme
to remain as permanent picture galleries, and this in complete harmony with each other and the room
has warranted the use of costly materials in their in which they are hung. Moreover, the larger halls
construction. are divided into cabinets by projecting divisions,
The entrance hall, staircase and walls are of and these are seldom larger than an ordinary living
dark marble, the massive columns of a light room, but each compartment is separated from the
striated variety, the doors, wickets and ornaments influence of the next, and is complete in itself. At
are of polished and beaten brass. The vestibule is the same time the screens do not project so far, nor
a little dark, but rich in tone, and is relieved by are they so high as to destroy the impression of the
spaces through which one gets glimpses of the large whole flower of which they are the petals. Nearly
hall with its soft warm ivory colour shading into gold all the rooms are lit from the top, and the walls are
towards the ceiling nearly a hundred feet above. It hung with delicate silk, linen, coarse jute or other
is fitting that the largest canvases are placed here, stuffs, the result producing variety of surface as
the biggest among them being Melville's enormous well as of colour. To ensure the right milieu some
sketch, The Return from the Crucifixion, faced by rooms have been been decorated by the artists them-
Egger-Lienz's Peasant Pilgrims. selves. One by Benno Becker is hung in black
' THE WHITE SAIL" BY PROF. R. HELLWAG
189
THE MANNHEIM TERCEN- It is becoming more and more a recognised fact
TENARY EXHIBITION t^iat: a P'cture m ^e process of creation is strongly
influenced by its surroundings, and when finished
This exhibition is a combination of depends for its effects fully as much on its environ-
painting, sculpture, domestic architecture and ment as on its intrinsic beauty ; it must be in unison
aesthetic garden construction, admirably carried and harmony with its entourage. In Mannheim,
out by a committee working with a mutual aim, Professor Dill and his colleagues have succeeded
and who have also avoided the danger of being in placing together those works which, quite
too extreme. A large portion of the buildings are irrespective of nationality, form a colour scheme
to remain as permanent picture galleries, and this in complete harmony with each other and the room
has warranted the use of costly materials in their in which they are hung. Moreover, the larger halls
construction. are divided into cabinets by projecting divisions,
The entrance hall, staircase and walls are of and these are seldom larger than an ordinary living
dark marble, the massive columns of a light room, but each compartment is separated from the
striated variety, the doors, wickets and ornaments influence of the next, and is complete in itself. At
are of polished and beaten brass. The vestibule is the same time the screens do not project so far, nor
a little dark, but rich in tone, and is relieved by are they so high as to destroy the impression of the
spaces through which one gets glimpses of the large whole flower of which they are the petals. Nearly
hall with its soft warm ivory colour shading into gold all the rooms are lit from the top, and the walls are
towards the ceiling nearly a hundred feet above. It hung with delicate silk, linen, coarse jute or other
is fitting that the largest canvases are placed here, stuffs, the result producing variety of surface as
the biggest among them being Melville's enormous well as of colour. To ensure the right milieu some
sketch, The Return from the Crucifixion, faced by rooms have been been decorated by the artists them-
Egger-Lienz's Peasant Pilgrims. selves. One by Benno Becker is hung in black
' THE WHITE SAIL" BY PROF. R. HELLWAG
189