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DOI Artikel:Deubner, L.: Decorative art at the Munich exhibition
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Decorative Art at the Munich Exhibition
WROUGHT-1 RON DOORS WITH FRAME IN BEATEN BRASS. DESIGNED BY OTHO ORLANDO KURZ. ANIMAL FIGURES
MODELLED BY GEORG VOGT. EXECUTED BY STEINICKEN & LOHR, MUNICH
and wainscoted walls with some painted panels. In
his “ representation ” room for the Dress Section, to
which Adolf Miinger has contributed some pleasing
decorative paintings, an austere type of architecture
is associated with an agreeable aspect of dignity.
The domed space, pleasantly lighted from above
by oval windows, is in spite of its numerous doors
much more compact and uniform in appearance
than the “ representation ” room designed by
Orlando Kurz for the Metal Industry Section,
which owing to most unfavourable lighting con-
ditions fails to create a good impressicn. To
this room the architect has added a pair of
massive gates of wrought-iron with pillars and
framing of beaten brass. The little animal figures
which serve so aptly to fill the numerous square
spaces of these doors were modelled by Georg
Vogt, and mention should be made of the excellence
of the work as executed in the workshops of Messrs.
Steinicken & Lohr.
In the extensive display of applied art work a good
average standard is demonstrated. Both in the metal
manufactures, and in the objects executed in the
precious metals, the good reputation which Munich
has enjoyed of old in these departments is main-
tained. In the Ceramic Section, besides some
really admirable services by Adalbert Niemeyer,
some painted plates by Rudolf Sieck, and some comic
figures by Joseph Wackerle, from the Nymphen-
burg Porcelain Factory, there is little that is new.
Of more importance for the future, however, are
those products of the industrial organization in
which the co-operation of the artistic world of
to-day has been enlisted, a co-operation which has
met with striking success in many ways. In this
connection particular credit is due to the architects
Paul Wenz and Otto Baur, who, in numerous
schemes of interior equipment, have shown what
excellent results may thus accrue, even in the case
of machine productions turned out on a large scale.
How much the new ideas are beginning to affect
wholesale production is seen here in a comfortably
equipped canteen for non-commissioned officers,
executed in the simplest materials, bath-rooms
which even the most fastidious tastes could not
find fault with, kitchens so conveniently and neatly
fitted up as to be a source of delight to the house-
wife. Three large halls are reserved for displaying
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WROUGHT-1 RON DOORS WITH FRAME IN BEATEN BRASS. DESIGNED BY OTHO ORLANDO KURZ. ANIMAL FIGURES
MODELLED BY GEORG VOGT. EXECUTED BY STEINICKEN & LOHR, MUNICH
and wainscoted walls with some painted panels. In
his “ representation ” room for the Dress Section, to
which Adolf Miinger has contributed some pleasing
decorative paintings, an austere type of architecture
is associated with an agreeable aspect of dignity.
The domed space, pleasantly lighted from above
by oval windows, is in spite of its numerous doors
much more compact and uniform in appearance
than the “ representation ” room designed by
Orlando Kurz for the Metal Industry Section,
which owing to most unfavourable lighting con-
ditions fails to create a good impressicn. To
this room the architect has added a pair of
massive gates of wrought-iron with pillars and
framing of beaten brass. The little animal figures
which serve so aptly to fill the numerous square
spaces of these doors were modelled by Georg
Vogt, and mention should be made of the excellence
of the work as executed in the workshops of Messrs.
Steinicken & Lohr.
In the extensive display of applied art work a good
average standard is demonstrated. Both in the metal
manufactures, and in the objects executed in the
precious metals, the good reputation which Munich
has enjoyed of old in these departments is main-
tained. In the Ceramic Section, besides some
really admirable services by Adalbert Niemeyer,
some painted plates by Rudolf Sieck, and some comic
figures by Joseph Wackerle, from the Nymphen-
burg Porcelain Factory, there is little that is new.
Of more importance for the future, however, are
those products of the industrial organization in
which the co-operation of the artistic world of
to-day has been enlisted, a co-operation which has
met with striking success in many ways. In this
connection particular credit is due to the architects
Paul Wenz and Otto Baur, who, in numerous
schemes of interior equipment, have shown what
excellent results may thus accrue, even in the case
of machine productions turned out on a large scale.
How much the new ideas are beginning to affect
wholesale production is seen here in a comfortably
equipped canteen for non-commissioned officers,
executed in the simplest materials, bath-rooms
which even the most fastidious tastes could not
find fault with, kitchens so conveniently and neatly
fitted up as to be a source of delight to the house-
wife. Three large halls are reserved for displaying
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