morgen hopen we de Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt te bezoeken
Op 1 juli a.s. is het 112 jaar geleden dat de Darmstädter Künstlerkolonie Mathildenhöhe door groothertog Ernst Ludwig van Hessen-Darmstadt gesticht werd. We hopen zaterdag een bezoek te brengen aan de permanente tentoonstelling Jugendstil in Darmstadt 1899-1914. Het is wel jammer dat we een halfjaar te vroeg zijn voor de tentoonstelling Schritte ins Reich der Kunst van de Nederlandse tekenaar en conceptkunstenaar Marcel van Eeden.
de affiches van de tentoonstellingen uit 1901 en 1904 zijn ontworpen in de stijl van de Wiener Sezession, een strakke variant van de Jugendstil
Das von Joseph Maria Olbrich errichtete Ernst-Ludwig-Haus – mit seiner beeindruckenden Südfassade, flankiert von zwei gewaltigen Monumentalfiguren des Bildhauers Ludwig – kann selbst als wahres Jugendstiljuwel bezeichnet werden. Im ehemaligen Ateliergebäude manifestierte Olbrich seine symbolische Absicht einen „Tempel der Arbeit“ zu schaffen, in dem das Wirken der Künstler sich in Form eines „Gottesdienstes“ hoch über den Niederungen des Alltags vollziehen sollte.
Bron: mathildenhoehe.info
Bron: mathildenhoehe.info
tentoonstellingsposters 1901-1908 [ la-belle-epoque.de ]
Darmstädter Künstlerkolonie [ de.wikipedia.org ]
Christopher Dresser was born in Glasgow, Scotland. At age 13, he began attending the Government School of Design, Somerset House. He received training in design and took botany as his specialization. He lectured on the new subject of Art Botany to complete his studies before his appointment in 1855 as Professor of Artistic Botany in the Department of Science and Art , South Kensington. He wrote a series of articles that appeared in the Art Journal in 1857, “Botany as Adapted to the Arts and Art Manufactures.” In 1858 he sold his first designs. He was awarded a doctorate in absentia from the University of Jena, Germany in 1859 for his writings. From this early date his design work widened to include carpets, ceramics, furniture, glass, graphics, metalwork, including silver and electroplate, and textiles printed and woven. In 1865 the Building News reported that in the early part of his career he had been active as a designer of wallpapers, textiles and carpets thus the most active revolutioniser in the decorative art of the day. He wrote several books on design and ornament, including The Art of Decorative Design (1862), The Development of Ornamental Art in the International Exhibition (1862), and Principles of Design (1873).
