DOI Heft:
No. 223 (October 1911)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0104
Studio-Talk
the sphere of influence of the baroque style of archi-
tecture, which has obtained a stronghold in South
Germany. In the new thoroughfares on the out-
skirts of the city, however, architects have been
able to indulge their fancy with greater freedom,
and speculative builders especially, in their en-
deavours to outdo one another, have made a great
display of costly materials- and profuse ornamenta-
tion—or cheap substitutes designed to impart an
appearance of affluence. In one of such roads
Prof. Emanuel von Seidl has recently erected a
residence for the art dealer Herr F. J. Brakl, and
as the other houses in the road were for the most
part characterless, he had no need to pay regard to
local environment. He was able therefore to
devote himself unfettered to the task before him —
that of creating for his client, a man of artistic
tastes and of a good position in life, a home in
which both the esthetic and the utilitarian require-
ments should be met as perfectly as possible.
Both architect and client had previously been
associated in connection with the erection of the
latter's business premises, and Herr Brakl was able
thsrefore to leave much to the discretion of the
architect, with whose methods he was familiar.
The exterior of the house presents a very agree-
able aspect, the pale grey of the plaster forming
with the green of the window-shutters and the dark
grey of the roof-slates a pleasant colour-symphony,
and with its complete absence of costly and os-
tentatious ornament it contrasts very favourably
with other houses in the immediate vicinity.
The roof, wholly unsymmetrical and quite peculiar
in shape, is the distinctive feature of the house ;
its complete deviation from conventional forms of
roof is not the result of mere caprice, but has been
determined by entirely practical considerations.
Small as the house looks from without, it is found
to be surprisingly commodious within, a result
due chiefly to the avoidance of passages and
corridors which would have encroached consider-
ably on the available space. The planning of the
building is admirably practical and clear; and it
has been so designed that all the rooms on
the three floors are directly accessible from the
"THE ISAR : AN ALLEGORY'
S2
FROM THE PAINTING BY PROF. FRITZ ERLER
(In the possession oj Herr Fr.J. Brakl, Munich)
the sphere of influence of the baroque style of archi-
tecture, which has obtained a stronghold in South
Germany. In the new thoroughfares on the out-
skirts of the city, however, architects have been
able to indulge their fancy with greater freedom,
and speculative builders especially, in their en-
deavours to outdo one another, have made a great
display of costly materials- and profuse ornamenta-
tion—or cheap substitutes designed to impart an
appearance of affluence. In one of such roads
Prof. Emanuel von Seidl has recently erected a
residence for the art dealer Herr F. J. Brakl, and
as the other houses in the road were for the most
part characterless, he had no need to pay regard to
local environment. He was able therefore to
devote himself unfettered to the task before him —
that of creating for his client, a man of artistic
tastes and of a good position in life, a home in
which both the esthetic and the utilitarian require-
ments should be met as perfectly as possible.
Both architect and client had previously been
associated in connection with the erection of the
latter's business premises, and Herr Brakl was able
thsrefore to leave much to the discretion of the
architect, with whose methods he was familiar.
The exterior of the house presents a very agree-
able aspect, the pale grey of the plaster forming
with the green of the window-shutters and the dark
grey of the roof-slates a pleasant colour-symphony,
and with its complete absence of costly and os-
tentatious ornament it contrasts very favourably
with other houses in the immediate vicinity.
The roof, wholly unsymmetrical and quite peculiar
in shape, is the distinctive feature of the house ;
its complete deviation from conventional forms of
roof is not the result of mere caprice, but has been
determined by entirely practical considerations.
Small as the house looks from without, it is found
to be surprisingly commodious within, a result
due chiefly to the avoidance of passages and
corridors which would have encroached consider-
ably on the available space. The planning of the
building is admirably practical and clear; and it
has been so designed that all the rooms on
the three floors are directly accessible from the
"THE ISAR : AN ALLEGORY'
S2
FROM THE PAINTING BY PROF. FRITZ ERLER
(In the possession oj Herr Fr.J. Brakl, Munich)