DOI Heft:
No. 173 (August, 1907)
DOI Artikel:The Mannheim tercentenary exhibition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0224
The Mannheim Tercentenary Exhibition
being realised in a very uncommon way, an im- character, acting as a transition between house and
portant matter which too many of the younger flower garden, which they connected and har-
men ignore. Cairati shows that the technique of a monised. They blended and united in full aesthetic
virtuoso alone can make a picture, though the continuity, for the garden walls were living things
subject be merely a few earthen vases. A wall is themselves. They also extended the geometrical
covered by Whistler's etchings, lent by the Victoria plan of the house, and made the garden part of it,
and Albert Museum, and with them hangs a superb and not a separate entity. A. house does directly
Portrait of a Girl in white, painted in his most affect the garden; its openings—especially of course
fluent manner. its doors—directly come into connection with it,
Tne general idea for garden architecture is due and this demands the garden being kept in the style
to Professor Lauger, who has also a special of the dwelling ; here, in Germany, it is the garden
garden, with a long pavilion designed for a bath- architect who is responsible for the result, the
house, and an open pool in front. Many of the dethroned gardener merely carrying out his ideas,
gardens are designed by well-known architects and The garden serves forentryto the house, as a strolling
artists; some in a severe and formal style, others place, and as an open-air lounge; it is indeed
more freely decorated landscape gardening, de- now looked upon, in a sense, as an outside room,
pending for their effect more on colour and The fact that a yew hedge of reasonable height
arrangement of flower-beds than on masonry. takes half a century to train, made it necessary to
The old-fashioned formal garden is generally replace it by actual masonry. Many garden archi-
pleasing, not only from its old-world flavour, but tects use large unbroken plane surfaces quite free
from the fact that its cypress, yew or box hedges of ornament, simple forms, and straight lines,
were cut and trimmed to give an architectural Monotony can be avoided by variety of surface
ROOM IN SILVER, MANNHEIM EXHIBITION
194
DESIGNED BY C A. BERMANN
SCULPTURE BY THE SAME
being realised in a very uncommon way, an im- character, acting as a transition between house and
portant matter which too many of the younger flower garden, which they connected and har-
men ignore. Cairati shows that the technique of a monised. They blended and united in full aesthetic
virtuoso alone can make a picture, though the continuity, for the garden walls were living things
subject be merely a few earthen vases. A wall is themselves. They also extended the geometrical
covered by Whistler's etchings, lent by the Victoria plan of the house, and made the garden part of it,
and Albert Museum, and with them hangs a superb and not a separate entity. A. house does directly
Portrait of a Girl in white, painted in his most affect the garden; its openings—especially of course
fluent manner. its doors—directly come into connection with it,
Tne general idea for garden architecture is due and this demands the garden being kept in the style
to Professor Lauger, who has also a special of the dwelling ; here, in Germany, it is the garden
garden, with a long pavilion designed for a bath- architect who is responsible for the result, the
house, and an open pool in front. Many of the dethroned gardener merely carrying out his ideas,
gardens are designed by well-known architects and The garden serves forentryto the house, as a strolling
artists; some in a severe and formal style, others place, and as an open-air lounge; it is indeed
more freely decorated landscape gardening, de- now looked upon, in a sense, as an outside room,
pending for their effect more on colour and The fact that a yew hedge of reasonable height
arrangement of flower-beds than on masonry. takes half a century to train, made it necessary to
The old-fashioned formal garden is generally replace it by actual masonry. Many garden archi-
pleasing, not only from its old-world flavour, but tects use large unbroken plane surfaces quite free
from the fact that its cypress, yew or box hedges of ornament, simple forms, and straight lines,
were cut and trimmed to give an architectural Monotony can be avoided by variety of surface
ROOM IN SILVER, MANNHEIM EXHIBITION
194
DESIGNED BY C A. BERMANN
SCULPTURE BY THE SAME