Trade and art exhibition 1880 Düsseldorf (building)
The main building for the trade and art exhibition in 1880 was built according to plans by the architects Boldt & Frings in the area of the former zoological garden in Düsseldorf .
history
It was only with the establishment of the Empire in 1871 that the "German contribution to the [...] exhibition of commercial, industrial, technical and artistic products [...] took on greater proportions". In 1879 the architects Boldt & Frings received the lucrative commission to design the main building for the industrial and commercial exhibition in Düsseldorf. The exhibition was the first major exhibition project in the Rhine Province and the Province of Westphalia , in which the Province of Hessen-Nassau and the City of Frankfurt am Main also participated. 100 halls were built on the site. Over 3000 companies from the Rhineland and Westphalia presented their products there. Over a million visitors were counted. From the beginning of May to October 1880 the “Trade Exhibition for Rhineland, Westphalia and neighboring districts” took place in the zoo area and on the surrounding property in connection with the “4. General German Art Exhibition "and an exhibition of" arts and crafts antiquities ", the" Rhenish-Westphalian Art and Industry Exhibition ".
In the center of the exhibition, a "closed hall system with a front length of 102 m by 360 m" was built according to plans by Boldt and Frings, consisting of "3 long hall structures connected by 4 transverse halls so that 6 inner courtyards are created". The narrow side of the building was the main facade. This showed in the middle an "imposing dome building flanked by 4 towers". These were enriched with dome pavilions at the four corners. The building material was mostly wood, the roofs were made of red-brown roofing felt and draperies made of colorful stenciled sackcloth. More than 1000 objects, including 887 paintings, were shown in the main building. The exhibition was a financial success, which is why the associations of the Rhenish-Westphalian steel and iron industry and other branches of the economy, as well as Düsseldorf artists , had prepared an industrial, commercial and art exhibition for 1902 at the Hofgarten.
literature
- Georg Friedrich Koch: Museum and exhibition buildings . In: Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres (Ed.): Art of the 19th century in the Rhineland . tape 2 . Architecture: II, secular buildings and urban planning . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, ISBN 3-590-30252-6 , pp. 203-234, see p. 226 f .
- Official catalog of the trade exhibition, Düsseldorf, 1880
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Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 32.9 " N , 6 ° 48 ′ 17.5" E