DOI issue:
No. 385 (April 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0236
STUTTGART—BU DAPEST
STUTTGART—The St. Paulusheim at
Bruchsal (architect, Hans Herkommer),
is a large missionary training college.
The building is constructed to accom-
modate three hundred students and twenty
priests, and is ranged around a courtyard
which is in the form of a horseshoe, with
the administration offices in the centre,
the ceremonial hall and church on the
right and the refectory in the left wing.
From this latter a further wing is thrown
out, comprising the sleeping apartments,
and at the rear of the administration
offices, between them and the church,
there is a large annexe, seventy metres
long, where the lecture rooms are situate.
The entrance hall is a part of the
administration offices and forms a con-
necting link between the church and the
refectory; it is twenty metres long and
six metres wide, with window niches 1.5
metres deep. Its height is five metres,
and four slender pillars divide it length-
wise into two sections. The cruciform
vaulting, arising as it does out of the
pillars without any capitals, adds a
wonderful lightness and grace to the
chamber. 0 0 0 0 a
ENTRANCE HALL OF THE ST.
PAULUSHEIM, BRUCHSAL. AR-
CHITECT, HANS HERKOMMER
230
From the low, comfortable benches in
the window niches of the entrance hall,
one gets a wonderful effect in the play of
light and shade, as well as of form and
colour, under the slender vaulting and
the high gallery arches, while one's
attention is drawn from the main stairway
building in the background to the curves
of the great corridor close at hand. In
fact, the whole setting of the scheme can
only be compared with some early Gothic
monastery. 0 0 0 0 0
The pulpit, or reading-desk, shown
opposite, is situated in the refectory.
This is a building designed to accom-
modate 300, and is roofed with ferro-
concrete, in spans seven metres wide,
which support the partition walls above
to a height of three stories. At the upper
end is a bay built for twenty priests,
accessible through a doorway from the
outside. Above this doorway there is a
small raised " listening " seat, the steps
leading up to it giving access also to the
pulpit. Among other purposes, the pulpit
is used for lectures (sometimes with
lantern slides) upon religious, scientific
and educational subjects. It, too, is
constructed of ferro-concrete, and its form
is rather lily-shaped in appearance ; above
there hangs a large plain crucifix. Here
again, great value is laid upon the im-
pression created in the mind of the worker ;
it is to be a lasting picture of purest
simplicity. 0 0 0 0 0
BUDAPEST.—The recent exhibition at
the Royal Academy showed some in-
teresting work of artistic individuality and
character proving that, in spite of the
manifold difficulties and deprivations under
which they now suffer, the artists still have
faith and ideals and the courage to work.
The exhibition had an additional interest
for the reason that the modern Art Group
Keve was included in it. And the members,
being guests, will come naturally first here.
Of these perhaps the chief place should be
given to the small portraits by Madame
Ernestine Lowagh, for they have intrinsic
worth, outward charm and personal
individuality of treatment; they are like-
wise truthful. That of Madame Horthy is
particularly well executed, the colouring
in fine harmony, the treatment delicate and
STUTTGART—The St. Paulusheim at
Bruchsal (architect, Hans Herkommer),
is a large missionary training college.
The building is constructed to accom-
modate three hundred students and twenty
priests, and is ranged around a courtyard
which is in the form of a horseshoe, with
the administration offices in the centre,
the ceremonial hall and church on the
right and the refectory in the left wing.
From this latter a further wing is thrown
out, comprising the sleeping apartments,
and at the rear of the administration
offices, between them and the church,
there is a large annexe, seventy metres
long, where the lecture rooms are situate.
The entrance hall is a part of the
administration offices and forms a con-
necting link between the church and the
refectory; it is twenty metres long and
six metres wide, with window niches 1.5
metres deep. Its height is five metres,
and four slender pillars divide it length-
wise into two sections. The cruciform
vaulting, arising as it does out of the
pillars without any capitals, adds a
wonderful lightness and grace to the
chamber. 0 0 0 0 a
ENTRANCE HALL OF THE ST.
PAULUSHEIM, BRUCHSAL. AR-
CHITECT, HANS HERKOMMER
230
From the low, comfortable benches in
the window niches of the entrance hall,
one gets a wonderful effect in the play of
light and shade, as well as of form and
colour, under the slender vaulting and
the high gallery arches, while one's
attention is drawn from the main stairway
building in the background to the curves
of the great corridor close at hand. In
fact, the whole setting of the scheme can
only be compared with some early Gothic
monastery. 0 0 0 0 0
The pulpit, or reading-desk, shown
opposite, is situated in the refectory.
This is a building designed to accom-
modate 300, and is roofed with ferro-
concrete, in spans seven metres wide,
which support the partition walls above
to a height of three stories. At the upper
end is a bay built for twenty priests,
accessible through a doorway from the
outside. Above this doorway there is a
small raised " listening " seat, the steps
leading up to it giving access also to the
pulpit. Among other purposes, the pulpit
is used for lectures (sometimes with
lantern slides) upon religious, scientific
and educational subjects. It, too, is
constructed of ferro-concrete, and its form
is rather lily-shaped in appearance ; above
there hangs a large plain crucifix. Here
again, great value is laid upon the im-
pression created in the mind of the worker ;
it is to be a lasting picture of purest
simplicity. 0 0 0 0 0
BUDAPEST.—The recent exhibition at
the Royal Academy showed some in-
teresting work of artistic individuality and
character proving that, in spite of the
manifold difficulties and deprivations under
which they now suffer, the artists still have
faith and ideals and the courage to work.
The exhibition had an additional interest
for the reason that the modern Art Group
Keve was included in it. And the members,
being guests, will come naturally first here.
Of these perhaps the chief place should be
given to the small portraits by Madame
Ernestine Lowagh, for they have intrinsic
worth, outward charm and personal
individuality of treatment; they are like-
wise truthful. That of Madame Horthy is
particularly well executed, the colouring
in fine harmony, the treatment delicate and