DOI issue:
No. 185 (August 1912)
DOI article:Schölermann, Wilhelm: The Hessian National Exhibition at Darmstadt
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20778#0242
The Hessian National Exhibition at Darmstadt
GENTLEMAN S SMOKING ROOM ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR A FLAT BY ARCHITECT
ALFRED KOCH AND EXECUTED BY L. STRITZINGER
sculpture by Prof. August Gaul, a comparatively
young artist, who gives promise of becoming a master
in this species of work. He has studied animal
nature as thoroughly as he has animal form, and
whereas his profoundly observant eye can render
justice to every detail of skin or plumage, his sense
of style and character tends towards a more grand
and simple rendering in plaster and bronze. There
are interesting plaster
casts by a young and
promising artist, Otto
Steigerwald, and also by
Robert Cauer. Heinrich
Jobst, a member of the
Artists’ Colony, has contri-
buted a variety of portrait
busts and small figure
bronzes, and he also
modelled the figures for
decorative columns and
capitals in the open court
belonging to the Applied
Arts building.
This court presents a
novelty in itself. It is en-
tirely built up in terra-cotta,
a material which possesses
excellent qualitiesfor open-
air decorative and garden
purposes, and has been
brought to a new stage of
perfection by the Gross-
herzogliche Keramische
Manufactur of Darmstadt,
under Prof. Scharvogel
and his assistants. The
“ Keramische Prunkhof ”
just named, architecturally
designed by Bauinspektor
Jost of Bad Nauheim,
contains also a fountain in
limestone with bronze fig-
ures by Jobst. It has been
carried out elaborately for
the express purpose of
showing what maybe done
in terra-cotta beyond the
little figures one usually
associates with it.
The adjoining “ Warte-
halle ” for Nauheim is a
noble hall in rich material
of glazed stone-ware, the
models for which were
designed by Huber of Offenbach and executed by
the Keramische Manufactur. From here we enter
a series of large interiors exhibited by the State, viz.,
the Schwurgerichtssaal (Criminal Court Hall), by
Professor Bonnarz ; a room for the President of the
Landesgericht, by Prof. Olbrich; the Judges’
Library, by Prof. Albin Muller, and other rooms for
the Palace of Justice in Mayence. Prof. Albin
DINING ROOM ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR A FLAT BY ARCHITECT ALFRED KOCH
AND EXECUTED BY L. STRITZINGER
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GENTLEMAN S SMOKING ROOM ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR A FLAT BY ARCHITECT
ALFRED KOCH AND EXECUTED BY L. STRITZINGER
sculpture by Prof. August Gaul, a comparatively
young artist, who gives promise of becoming a master
in this species of work. He has studied animal
nature as thoroughly as he has animal form, and
whereas his profoundly observant eye can render
justice to every detail of skin or plumage, his sense
of style and character tends towards a more grand
and simple rendering in plaster and bronze. There
are interesting plaster
casts by a young and
promising artist, Otto
Steigerwald, and also by
Robert Cauer. Heinrich
Jobst, a member of the
Artists’ Colony, has contri-
buted a variety of portrait
busts and small figure
bronzes, and he also
modelled the figures for
decorative columns and
capitals in the open court
belonging to the Applied
Arts building.
This court presents a
novelty in itself. It is en-
tirely built up in terra-cotta,
a material which possesses
excellent qualitiesfor open-
air decorative and garden
purposes, and has been
brought to a new stage of
perfection by the Gross-
herzogliche Keramische
Manufactur of Darmstadt,
under Prof. Scharvogel
and his assistants. The
“ Keramische Prunkhof ”
just named, architecturally
designed by Bauinspektor
Jost of Bad Nauheim,
contains also a fountain in
limestone with bronze fig-
ures by Jobst. It has been
carried out elaborately for
the express purpose of
showing what maybe done
in terra-cotta beyond the
little figures one usually
associates with it.
The adjoining “ Warte-
halle ” for Nauheim is a
noble hall in rich material
of glazed stone-ware, the
models for which were
designed by Huber of Offenbach and executed by
the Keramische Manufactur. From here we enter
a series of large interiors exhibited by the State, viz.,
the Schwurgerichtssaal (Criminal Court Hall), by
Professor Bonnarz ; a room for the President of the
Landesgericht, by Prof. Olbrich; the Judges’
Library, by Prof. Albin Muller, and other rooms for
the Palace of Justice in Mayence. Prof. Albin
DINING ROOM ESPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR A FLAT BY ARCHITECT ALFRED KOCH
AND EXECUTED BY L. STRITZINGER
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