Glass chain

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The Glass Chain was a community of artists brought into being by Bruno Taut , which mainly consisted of architects . The medium of mutual exchange was an exchange of letters / circular.

The letters drawn with pseudonyms were written between November 1919 and December 1920. The group includes Bruno Taut (pseudonym “Glas”), Max Taut (without a pseudonym), Wilhelm Brückmann (“Brexbach”), Alfred Brust (“Cor”); Hermann Finsterlin ("Prometh"), Paul Goesch ("Tancred"), Jakobus Goettel ("Stellarius"), Otto Gröne , Walter Gropius ("Maß"), Wenzel Hablik (abbreviation "WH"), Hans Hansen ("Antischmitz" ), Carl Krayl ("beginning"), the brothers Hans ("Angkor") and Wassili Luckhardt ("Zacken") and Hans Scharoun ("Hannes").

The glass chain overlapped with other artist groups, including the November group , the Arbeitsrat für Kunst and Der Ring . Some of the documents are in the architecture archive of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) and in the archive of the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal , Quebec , Canada .

source

  • Iain Boyd Whyte & Romana Schneider (eds.): The glass chain. Series: History of Architecture. Ernst & Sohn (now John Wiley & Sons), Berlin 1986 ISBN 3-433-02152-X
    • English: The Crystal Chain letters. Architectural fantasies by Bruno Taut and his circle. , Ed. Whyte. MIT 1985. ISBN 0-262-23121-2
  • this. Ed .: The Glass Chain. An expressionist correspondence on the architecture of the future. Series: Korrespondenzen, 10. Gerd Hatje , Ostfildern 1996 ISBN 3-7757-0565-1
  • Yann Rocher, Théâtres en utopie , Actes Sud, Paris, 2014, pp. 84-103.
  • Yann Rocher (ed.), Globes. Architecture et sciences explorent le monde , Norma / Cité de l'architecture, Paris, 2017, pp. 202–211.

Web links

Online: Uwe M. Schneede , The separated world. Hermann Finsterlin and the Glass Chain. (Also about Taut's extreme sense of mission)

notes

  1. ↑ it was only marginally included, it is not in the list of members of December 19, 1919 (Letters, p. 20), it was only accepted in September 1920; in the circulars he is only represented once with 3 aphorisms from April 1920, in the first he makes fun of Goethe , in the second he pays tribute to biologism , in the third he asks about a redeeming figure, called "theosophist". In the 1986 edition of the letters in the appendix a long, radical, religious manifesto with an apocalyptic tone attributed to him, from the Scharoun estate, undated; those of the eds. The reasons given for its authorship are hardly convincing. Breast had nothing to do with architecture or the fine arts.
  2. ↑ 212 pages, large format, chronological list of all 60 documents from November 24, 1919 to December 24, 1920, illus., Short biographies of all authors with b / w photos, marginal columns e.g. T. with exec. Notes (109 notes), illus- tration and references. Preliminary remark Schneider. Introduction to Whyte pp. 3–18. In addition, three undated documents in the appendix, which cannot be assigned to an author with complete certainty, but come from the group: "Faith - Knowledge - and in the middle of it wisdom", possibly by Wassili Luckhardt; "Our time has one greatness: wanting better ...", possibly von Taut; “Newsletter of the Coming - From the Messiah. A morning language (sic) in the Landschulheim am Solling , “possibly by Alfred Brust. Whyte's foreword differs in two places, apart from minor changes: From p. 10, right. Sp. (1986) W. removed a long section that made a reference to Count Keyserling's travel diary of a philosopher ; Furthermore, W. shortened more than one column in 1996 from the end of 1986, with the exception of a quote from Taut on February 3, 1920
  3. ↑ Selection from November 24, 1919 to October 30, 1920, 155 pages, the documents are not numbered, smaller format, illus .; with significantly fewer comments (55 notes), slightly abbreviated introduction by Whyte, see previous note; Afterword Schneider pp. 145–151