Ambience

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The principle of the ambience goes back to the art dealer Siegfried Bing . It is a method of exhibition architecture that simulates a living environment. The principle is based on the fact that exhibits are not arranged according to technical groups, but according to the order of the total work of art. The natural, living connection of things should be clearly discernible, and every object should be presented in such a place as it appears to us to be appropriate to its real purpose.

For the first time you could see the principle of the ambience in reality at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . There, Bing had his own L'art Nouveau pavilion with six model rooms.

The lawyer and art critic Justus Brinckmann then adopted this principle for the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg . In the model of the Paris room he combined objects of different genres in order to make the unity of art understandable. The aim is to make room furnishings as harmonious as possible in terms of shape and tone. This is admired by many as a revolutionary museum idea.

"But if we don't want the frame to be empty, but rather with a picture, the latter not suddenly, but hung above a matching piece of furniture, the wall must also be appropriately decorated, the floor covered with carpets, in short, the whole area must be subordinated to the overall purpose. "

- Julius Faulwasser

literature

  • Walther Gensel: The German arts and crafts at the Paris World Exhibition. In: Kunstgewerbeblatt. 1900, p. 172
  • Heinz Spielmann (arrangement): The Art Nouveau in Hamburg. In memory of Justus Brinckmann and Otto Eckmann. Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg 1965, p. 16
  • Gabriel P. Weisberg: Samuel Bing. Patron of art nouveau. Part 1: The appreciation of Japanese art. In: The Connoisseur. Vol. 172, 1969, p. 119 ff.
  • ders .: Samuel Bing. Patron of art nouveau. Part 2: Bing's Salon of Art Nouveau. In: The Connoisseur. Vol. 172, 1969, p. 294 ff.
  • ders .: Samuel Bing. Patron of art nouveau. Part 3: The House of Art Nouveau Bing. In: The Connoisseur. Vol. 173, 1970, p. 61 ff.
  • Gabriel P. Weisberg, Edwin Becker & Évelyne Possémé (eds.): L'Art Nouveau. La Maison Bing. Belser, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-7630-2441-7

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Hamburg Museum for Art and Crafts on the day of its 25th anniversary. In: Kunstgewerbeblatt, NF 13th vol., 1902, p. 225