Tietz department store (Heinrich-Heine-Allee)
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The Tietz department store on Alleestrasse (today Heinrich-Heine-Allee ) in Düsseldorf was built according to plans by Joseph Maria Olbrich from 1907 to 1909 in the material and monumental style of reform architecture . The branch is still owned by the former Leonhard Tietz Group , today's Kaufhof (called this since 1933) , which operates it under the name Galeria Kaufhof Düsseldorf Königsallee . The building sculpture on the external facades is the work of the sculptor Johannes Knubel .
description
In 1906, the competition for Leonhard Tietz AG's Düsseldorf house was the “most important step in the development of German department store architecture based on Messel's Wertheim buildings”. The "great importance" is that the model of Messel's Wertheim wing was " transformed into a purer, clearer creation by doing without historicizing decorations and thereby increased beyond the model".
The motif of the facade design is simple: three window strips are separated by narrow wall strips. The three-part window ensemble is flanked by strong columns. The facade jumps back at the height of the fourth and fifth floors. This weakens the "monumentality of the [...] mansard roof". The building shows "considerable dimensions" and a "monumental appearance". It was an example of the “progressive monumentalization that can be seen in the department store architecture of the Rhineland from the turn of the century to the First World War”. The Tietz-Haus in Düsseldorf set “new standards, by which the younger buildings were based”. This was especially true for the monumentally designed atrium . The separate exhibition and sales rooms such as the costume salon, salon for model hats, refreshment room, carpet room, art salon were equipped with a great deal of valuable materials such as different types of wood, marble and bronze.
Elevator (drawing from 1908)
View of the main portal (around 1910)
Orientalizing carpet sales room (around 1910)
Large window in the covered atrium (around 1910)
Street scene in front of the Tietz department store on Königsallee (1910)
Today's Kaufhof on Königsallee (2005)
Art history
In 1917 the exhibition The Art in War took place in the department store , at which the expressionist Düsseldorf painter Walter Ophey was represented.
In 1922, Adolf Uzarski , founding member of the artists' association Das Junge Rheinland and former head of the department store's advertising department, organized the 1st International Art Exhibition on the fourth floor in the Tietz department store , in which around 340 painters from 19 different countries took part. Works by Alexander Archipenko , Ernst Barlach , Marc Chagall , Giorgio de Chirico , Lyonel Feininger , Ernst Haeckel , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Pablo Picasso were shown in the exhibition.
In connection with this exhibition, the first (and only) congress of the Union of International Progressive Artists took place in the government building in Düsseldorf from May 29 to 31, 1922 , under the direction of Gert Heinrich Wollheim . This congress, to which the artist movement Das Junge Rheinland had invited internationally in January 1922, was an internationalist- inspired counter-event to the Great Art Exhibition of 1922, which took place in Düsseldorf in parallel . This counter-event was for its part blown up by a “faction of the Constructivists ”, which included Theo van Doesburg , Cornelis van Eesteren , Werner Graeff , Raoul Hausmann , El Lissitzky and Hans Richter and who stood out through a different, more radical concept of art, which was art understood as an "organizational method" and "tool of the general work process" for the progress of mankind.
literature
- Max Creutz : Joseph Maria Olbrich. The Tietz department store in Düsseldorf. Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin 1909, archive.org
- Eberhard Grunsky: Department stores and department stores . In: Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland. Vol. 2. Architecture: II, Profane Buildings a. Urban planning. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 271–285, see p. 273 ff .
- Roland Kanz, Jürgen Wiener (ed.): Architectural guide Düsseldorf. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 2001, No. 44, p. 35.
- Ariane Olek: The competition for the Tietz department store in Düsseldorf . In: INSITU . Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte , 3 (2/2011), pp. 271–285.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Internet presence of the branch
- ↑ Grunsky, pp. 273f.
- ↑ Grunsky, pp. 276f.
- ↑ a b c Kranz / Wiener, p. 35
- ↑ Grunsky, pp. 279f.
- ↑ Grunsky, p. 282.
- ↑ Jasmin Koßmann: Will Grohmann, Lasar Segall and the "Dresdner Sezession Gruppe 1919" . In: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Konstanze Rudert (Ed.): Between intuition and certainty: Will Grohmann and the reception of modernity in Germany and Europe 1918 - 1968 . Sandstein, Dresden 2013, ISBN 978-3-95498-053-6 , p. 127-133 .
- ↑ Gerda Wendermann: The International Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists in Weimar in September 1922 attempt at a chronology of events. In: Hellmut Seemann (ed.): Europe in Weimar. Visions of a continent. Yearbook 2008. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0281-5 , p. 382
- ↑ Hubert van den Berg: “Supernationality” of the avant-garde . In: Wolfgang Asholt, Walter Fähnders (Ed.): The view from the skyscraper. Avant-garde - avant-garde criticism - avant-garde research . Editions Rodopoi BV, Amsterdam 2000, ISBN 90-420-1282-X (bound), p. 266
- ↑ See also Unie van Internationale Progressieve Kunstenaars in the Dutch language Wikipedia
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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 33.2 ″ N , 6 ° 46 ′ 40 ″ E