Dresden School of Applied Arts (building)
The building complex of the Dresden School of Applied Arts and Arts and Crafts Museum was built by William Lossow and Hermann Viehweger from 1901 . It is located on Güntzplatz between Gerokstraße and Güntzstraße.
history
Carl Graff, as director of the Dresden School of Applied Arts , which had its seat in the building of the Polytechnic School on Antonsplatz , made the proposal to build a new building complex for the School of Applied Arts and the Museum of Applied Arts . A lengthy planning phase began as early as 1899, in which experts from the Ministry of the Interior and Finance, Max Hans Kühne and Carl Graff were involved. After a second competition for facade design, the architectural office Lossow and Viehweger received the order and in 1901 construction could begin, which was completed in 1908. After Graff's death, William Lossow became director of the School of Applied Arts.
description
The building complex consists of structures of different heights, which are arranged around several courtyards of different sizes. In the pre-war period, the group of buildings showed a lively roof landscape, consisting of mansard roofs, ridge turrets, gables and chimneys.
The joint accommodation of museum and school is clearly evident in the high studio and classroom buildings and the pavilion-like sub-buildings for museum purposes. In the direction of Güntzplatz in particular, the baroque elements on these representative parts of the building , which are characterized by reform architecture , are most striking in the architectural sculpture. In other parts of the building, however, the baroque design language was reduced, reshaped and reinterpreted.
The earliest part of the building from 1903 is located on Dürerstraße and shows reform architecture with Art Nouveau forms. Examples of this are the window frames and the terrace.
There were a wide variety of window shapes: ox eyes, upright, round arch and basket arch windows. Roughly hewn sandstone plinths contrasted with smoothly plastered facade surfaces. Symmetrical facades contrasted with asymmetrical wall surfaces. The sculptor Karl Groß enriched the building with various architectural sculptures.
Spolia from Palais Brühl was built into the museum complex . They were from Johann Christoph Knöffel's hall around 1740. The hall was destroyed during the war, the building was reconstructed by Mart Stam and Gotthard Binnewerg , although the gables of the mansard roofs were not rebuilt.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hübner et al., P. 16f image no. 10
literature
- Ulrich Hübner et al .: Symbol and truthfulness. Reform architecture in Dresden. Verlag der Kunst Dresden Ingwert Paulsen jun., Husum 2005, ISBN 3-86530-068-5 .
- Volker Helas, Gudrun Peltz: Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden . KNOP Verlag for Architecture - Photography - Art, Dresden 1999, ISBN 3-934363-00-8 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 12.4 " N , 13 ° 45 ′ 32" E