DOI Heft:
No. 367 (October 1923)
DOI Artikel:Bröchner, Georg: The Gothenburg jubilee exhibition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21398#0220
THE GOTHENBURG JUBILEE EX-
HIBITION. BY GEORG BROCHNER.
BEAUTIFUL Gothenburg has suc-
ceeded in creating an exhibition which
will always stand out in the annals of such
undertakings, the setting and display in
every section, attractive in the highest
degree, evidencing the consummate skill
and care bestowed upon them. 0 a
Look at the charming and subtle way
in which the crafts, to mention one
example, are housed and exhibited. The
building itself is a thing of beauty—the
pity is that it cannot remain ‘‘a joy for
ever ”—with its lines of chaste sim-
plicity, its few but choice ornamental
features, its terraces and fountains and its
inner courts, open or otherwise, singu-
larly well adapted for showing and enhanc-
ing the far-famed excellence of Swedish
craftsmanship, be it in the shape of costly
rugs, of gold or silver or ivory, of wrought
or cast iron, of earthenware or porcelain,
or glass. 00000
A unique feature—absolutely unique—
is the manifold ways in which past
centuries have been called to life—for
a brief summer. Old-world workshops and
homes have been—can one say resurrected
—not through more or less happy imitation
but in their old, time-worn reality, with im-
plements, tools, furniture, by the hundreds
and thousands—an alluring object-lesson
in the life and ways of bygone ages, con-
jured forth with amazing love and labour.
In the ecclesiastical art section there is
not only a large church-like hall, with an
ancient altar and venerable fonts and
sculptures, but there is an old church
faithfully reproduced, with all the real
old contents, the scene, in its dim religious
light, productive of a strange feeling of
devotion, most, perhaps, after dark when
the candles are lighted on the altar. And
there lies, hidden away almost amongst
secular edifices, the sweetest, quaintest
little graveyard, with its grass and its
flowers, with all the old tombstones and
monuments under old shady trees, a
strange but entrancing contrast to the
busy hum, vaguely heard, of the thousands
of gay pleasure-seekers, a spot which might
almost inspire a Gray’s Elegy. 0 0
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ROOM IN ARTISTIC HANDICRAFTS PAVILION
JUBILEE EXHIBITION, GOTHENBURG
HIBITION. BY GEORG BROCHNER.
BEAUTIFUL Gothenburg has suc-
ceeded in creating an exhibition which
will always stand out in the annals of such
undertakings, the setting and display in
every section, attractive in the highest
degree, evidencing the consummate skill
and care bestowed upon them. 0 a
Look at the charming and subtle way
in which the crafts, to mention one
example, are housed and exhibited. The
building itself is a thing of beauty—the
pity is that it cannot remain ‘‘a joy for
ever ”—with its lines of chaste sim-
plicity, its few but choice ornamental
features, its terraces and fountains and its
inner courts, open or otherwise, singu-
larly well adapted for showing and enhanc-
ing the far-famed excellence of Swedish
craftsmanship, be it in the shape of costly
rugs, of gold or silver or ivory, of wrought
or cast iron, of earthenware or porcelain,
or glass. 00000
A unique feature—absolutely unique—
is the manifold ways in which past
centuries have been called to life—for
a brief summer. Old-world workshops and
homes have been—can one say resurrected
—not through more or less happy imitation
but in their old, time-worn reality, with im-
plements, tools, furniture, by the hundreds
and thousands—an alluring object-lesson
in the life and ways of bygone ages, con-
jured forth with amazing love and labour.
In the ecclesiastical art section there is
not only a large church-like hall, with an
ancient altar and venerable fonts and
sculptures, but there is an old church
faithfully reproduced, with all the real
old contents, the scene, in its dim religious
light, productive of a strange feeling of
devotion, most, perhaps, after dark when
the candles are lighted on the altar. And
there lies, hidden away almost amongst
secular edifices, the sweetest, quaintest
little graveyard, with its grass and its
flowers, with all the old tombstones and
monuments under old shady trees, a
strange but entrancing contrast to the
busy hum, vaguely heard, of the thousands
of gay pleasure-seekers, a spot which might
almost inspire a Gray’s Elegy. 0 0
200
ROOM IN ARTISTIC HANDICRAFTS PAVILION
JUBILEE EXHIBITION, GOTHENBURG