{"id":8839,"date":"2011-02-11T02:29:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T01:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2011-06-08T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T15:50:25","slug":"deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/02\/11\/deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-01.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continuing the delve into back numbers of <em>Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration<\/em>, the German periodical of art and decoration. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/deutschekunstund07kochuoft\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 7<\/a> covers the period from October 1900 to March 1901 and features a set of ornamental capitals throughout this edition designed by Karl L\u00fcrtzing, part of a presentation of typefaces in the Art Nouveau style. The figures in L\u00fcrtzing&#8217;s alphabet all seem to be Biblical or mythological (as with David and Eve above) although some are easier to decipher than others. Volume 6 paid a visit to the Exposition Universelle in Paris and there&#8217;s a few more examples from that event here, along with further examinations of the best in German art and design. As usual, anyone wishing to see these samples in greater detail is advised to download the entire volume (which comprises over 300 pages) at the Internet Archive. There&#8217;ll be more <em>DK&amp;D<\/em> next week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-02.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remarkable interiors by Richard Riemerschmid.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-03.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-15.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-15.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-04.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-05.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-06.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-07.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-07.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To date, the best peacock pattern textile design I&#8217;ve come across, credited to one Frau Dunsky. (For the best pattern featuring actual peacocks, see <a href=\"http:\/\/diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/diglit\/pan1896_97_2\/0187\/image?sid=7bcc366e9a295e07bfd94802383707d5#current_page\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Crane and William Morris<\/a>.) This would have been a great success as a wallpaper design in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-08.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-08.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-09.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-09.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-10.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-10.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Part of a feature on Sascha Schneider&#8217;s Leipzig murals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-11.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-11.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Was there ever a time before or since 1900 when women were displayed dallying so frequently with octopuses or, in this case, squid? There&#8217;s no credit for this picture but it&#8217;s part of a feature on artist Fritz Erler (see below) so is probably his work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-12.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-12.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fritz Erler is classed among the minor German Symbolists for works such as these, murals for the music room of the Villa Neisser, Munich, which render in pictorial form different musical styles. The article has photos of the room, the design of which was a collaboration between Erler and his brother, Erich. Two of the more eccentric panels are shown here. I&#8217;ve no idea why <em>Scherzo<\/em> (above) would require a half-naked man and a wild bear, while <em>Tanz (Dance)<\/em> below, is one of the stranger Salom\u00e9s of this period with her tiny head and vertical hair.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-13.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-13.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/dkd07-14.jpg\" alt=\"dkd07-14.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another Symbolist Erler piece, <em>Die Pest (The Plague)<\/em>, a painting which was <a href=\"http:\/\/diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de\/diglit\/jugend1901_1\/0167\/image?sid=a490013dc59417fa8ec824f6540cab49#current_page\" target=\"_blank\">prominently featured<\/a> in <em>Jugend<\/em> magazine the same year. Erler achieved considerable popularity towards the end of his life, and also lasting ignominy, by painting portraits and propaganda pieces for the Nazi Party.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/02\/04\/deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration-6\/\">Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration #6<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/01\/28\/deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration-5\/\">Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration #5<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/01\/19\/deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration-4\/\">Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration #4<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/01\/12\/deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration-2\/\">Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration #2<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/01\/06\/deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration-1\/\">Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration #1<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/03\/08\/deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration\/\">Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/02\/23\/jugend-magazine-revisited\/\">Jugend Magazine revisited<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the delve into back numbers of Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, the German periodical of art and decoration. Volume 7 covers the period from October 1900 to March 1901 and features a set of ornamental capitals throughout this edition designed by Karl L\u00fcrtzing, part of a presentation of typefaces in the Art Nouveau style. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/02\/11\/deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration #7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,58,2,4,43,44,41,45,10],"tags":[1952,7247,120,2260,2261,199,2258,444,2259,123,1026,549,1188],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art-nouveau","category-art","category-design","category-magazines","category-painting","category-sculpture","category-symbolists","category-typography","tag-cephalopods","tag-deutsche-kunst-und-dekoration","tag-expositions","tag-frau-dunsky","tag-fritz-erler","tag-jugend","tag-karl-lurtzing","tag-peacocks","tag-richard-riemerschmid","tag-salome","tag-sascha-schneider","tag-walter-crane","tag-william-morris"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2iz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}