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THE NEW YORK TIMES
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ANP Ar HONl
neenigerienemrisre
ne nnerestenaereencenentich Mneenneer reenn
Exhibition of Arts
and Crafts at Coloene
Shows Germany’s
Definite and Racially
8
Expressive Style of
180
K
Modern Decorative
2
Art.
620
country has more use for
815
9
peace than Germany. The
85
I V gction of the Government in
plunging the people into war
will have cruel results in the paraly¬
sis of all those arts of peace which
N
F
have been assiduously cultivated by
Su
ne un
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
Scane from Schmitzlers Der
Tan Saieat
10
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aesthetic standard for a long future.
the Manichereient iihe Gogne bbig
Under the present conditions at least
one generation of originating theught
will be wasted and worse than wasted,
turned into channels of destructive
4
instead of constructlve activity.
At Celegna this Summer an exhibl¬
D
tion of all the arts and crafts of
every part of the country was opened
O)
after a year of arduous preparation.
BAT
Forty-elght architects were sum¬
9
3630
moned to the construction of the ex¬
hibition bulldings, which wear an
8
aspect of solidity and permanence
Fe
seldom found In places of similar alm.
E
The walls are of concrete and brick,
the grounds are planted with hardy
ee enaen
Klesesesesen Magen
perennials, the shops of the Laden¬
Seee
eriee Mhen
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strasse, none too successfully demon¬
ach e
Segeren e
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strating Futurist notions of window
gecoration, are planned for extensive
e eneen
Cologna Hoase at the Ex.-
45
commerce, not for transient bick¬
-hibitton.
ering.
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The exhibition throughout accents
S
the spirit that has made German dec¬
40
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
*
25
ponderous German taste, it must be
on Germany, and now no doubt de¬
5
granted that Germany has developed
serted by native and foreign visitors
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a consistent, definite, and rachally ex¬
alike.
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
S
Terent regions, shows nothing so clear¬
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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,
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Ae
S
ANP Ar HONl
neenigerienemrisre
ne nnerestenaereencenentich Mneenneer reenn
Exhibition of Arts
and Crafts at Coloene
Shows Germany’s
Definite and Racially
8
Expressive Style of
180
K
Modern Decorative
2
Art.
620
country has more use for
815
9
peace than Germany. The
85
I V gction of the Government in
plunging the people into war
will have cruel results in the paraly¬
sis of all those arts of peace which
N
F
have been assiduously cultivated by
Su
ne un
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
Scane from Schmitzlers Der
Tan Saieat
10
1##
aesthetic standard for a long future.
the Manichereient iihe Gogne bbig
Under the present conditions at least
one generation of originating theught
will be wasted and worse than wasted,
turned into channels of destructive
4
instead of constructlve activity.
At Celegna this Summer an exhibl¬
D
tion of all the arts and crafts of
every part of the country was opened
O)
after a year of arduous preparation.
BAT
Forty-elght architects were sum¬
9
3630
moned to the construction of the ex¬
hibition bulldings, which wear an
8
aspect of solidity and permanence
Fe
seldom found In places of similar alm.
E
The walls are of concrete and brick,
the grounds are planted with hardy
ee enaen
Klesesesesen Magen
perennials, the shops of the Laden¬
Seee
eriee Mhen
#
strasse, none too successfully demon¬
ach e
Segeren e
S
strating Futurist notions of window
gecoration, are planned for extensive
e eneen
Cologna Hoase at the Ex.-
45
commerce, not for transient bick¬
-hibitton.
ering.
eeee
The exhibition throughout accents
S
the spirit that has made German dec¬
40
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
*
25
ponderous German taste, it must be
on Germany, and now no doubt de¬
5
granted that Germany has developed
serted by native and foreign visitors
Se
a consistent, definite, and rachally ex¬
alike.
pressive modern style In decorative
The work in glass, for onc thing,
S
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
S
Terent regions, shows nothing so clear¬
S
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,
—