Steamer style
The furnishing features of the German passenger ships built in the 1920s and 1930s are referred to as steamer style . More rarely, and at least not in scientific usage, the term is also applied to the overloaded historicizing style of equipment of the express steamers built between 1870 and 1900.
development
The historical prerequisite and structural core of this by no means uniform style is neoclassicism , which strives for monumental spaces, but enriches them decoratively with small-scale or powerful motifs from antiquity , rococo , classicism and also Art Déco, depending on the function of the room . Valuable materials and gilding contribute to the opulent overall impression. The “steamer style” differs from the historicism design of the express steamer equipment built in the early years by dispensing with neo-baroque bulges and substitute materials such as plaster of paris and masquerade painting. In order to express exclusivity and refined taste, it was given a certain discreet severity.
The protagonist of this interior style was Paul Ludwig Troost , who until his death in 1934 designed furnishings for the passenger ships of the North German Lloyd and continued, reused and further developed essential elements of this style in his rooms for representatives of the Nazi regime. Many of these interior fittings were carried out in the United Workshops .
literature
- R. Kain: Paul Ludwig Troost and spatial art on board . In: The Güldenkammer, 1944.
- Sonja Günther: Design of Power - Furniture for Representatives of the “Third Reich” . Stuttgart 1992, pp. 11-17.
- Gerhard Müller-Menckens : Interior fittings of the passenger steamers , in: Carl Thalenhorst (Ed.): Bremen and his buildings 1900–1951 , Bremen 1952, pp. 97–108.