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Exhibition of Arts

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country has more use for


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peace than Germany. The


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plunging the people into war

will have cruel results in the paraly¬

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have been assiduously cultivated by
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Young Germany during the past

twenty years.
The work of German craftsmen has
shown extraordinarg vitality, an
abundance, perhaps a superabun¬
dance of energy, and the application
of vigorons intelligence, With twenty

more years of commercial prosperity
and ease of mind, the ideas that have
been struggling into form would have
had a fair chance to establish an
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aesthetic standard for a long future.
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Under the present conditions at least
one generation of originating theught
will be wasted and worse than wasted,

turned into channels of destructive
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instead of constructlve activity.


At Celegna this Summer an exhibl¬


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tion of all the arts and crafts of


every part of the country was opened
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after a year of arduous preparation.
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Forty-elght architects were sum¬

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hibition bulldings, which wear an
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aspect of solidity and permanence
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seldom found In places of similar alm.
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the grounds are planted with hardy
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strating Futurist notions of window
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commerce, not for transient bick¬


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The exhibition throughout accents
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the spirit that has made German dec¬
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loration something to reckon with in
consider a few of the many signifi¬

recent years. Whatever one’s per¬

cant features of the Cologne exhibi¬





sonal predilection, and an American
tion humming like a beehive under



predilection seldom is in favor of the
the hot sun of this July as it shone



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ponderous German taste, it must be
on Germany, and now no doubt de¬





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granted that Germany has developed
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a consistent, definite, and rachally ex¬
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pressive modern style In decorative
The work in glass, for onc thing,
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art. The immense Haupthalle, ded¬

is quite unusual and successful. The

icated to examples of this style as it
use of this material for architectural


has been modified and varled in dif¬
purposes is illustrated in a house

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built entirely of glass, and the dwell¬

(Jy as its essentlal unity. In the art
ers therein are safe enough in throw¬

of church, synagogue, home, garden,
ing critical stones, The opaque walls,