Apartment buildings at Bundschuhstrasse 5 and 7
The tenements Bundschuh road 5 and 7 are two listed Art Nouveau building in Dresden district Johannstadt . Both houses are part of a closed development and were built in 1903. The builder Carl Clemens Türke was the builder and probably also the planner of the building.
description
While Helas / Peltz describe the façade of the four-storey building as being structured in the traditional manner of late historicism , Matthias Donath notices a “conscious breaking” of the symmetry in the Art Nouveau sense of house number 5, especially in the gable area from the first one, which is partly made of half-timbering The upper floor has a bay window extending over the entire height of the building. Both buildings have seven window axes. House number 5 is structured vertically by the three-axis-wide bay window, here are also the eight balconies of the building front. House number 7, on the other hand, is structured by two single-axis side projections with balconies on each upper floor. The risalites are crowned by gables.
The facade decoration of both buildings is striking. The house on the left (number 5) shows red jewelry on a light pink background, especially under the windows of the third floor and in a wide band under the eaves on both sides of the bay window. A winged putti is depicted on the left and a resting lion on the right. In addition to various floral decorations, the gable of the bay window shows an Art Nouveau grimacing head and a dragon. House number 7 shows a total of symmetrically arranged jewelry, in particular a frieze-like band of green flowers, on each side a peacock, which seems to be moving towards the large woman's head in the middle.
The most striking thing is probably the sandstone ornamentation at the entrance to Bundschuhstrasse 5: a calling woman's head in the midst of slightly stylized chestnut leaves. The motif of the woman's head calling out from a forest of leaves can be found in a modified version on several Dresden buildings, such as the residential building Katharinenstrasse 1 in the Äußere Neustadt , which was also built in 1903. The motif was probably used for the first time in 1897 above the portal of the house at König-Albert-Straße 29 (today Albertstraße ; the house was destroyed in the war). It was a work by the Dresden sculptor Eduard Jungbluth , the authorship is unclear.
The decoration of the hallway and stairwell in both buildings also shows clear characteristics of Art Nouveau. The walls in the hallway of house Bundschuh road 5 are kept in plain white, it can be found sparingly stucco used, such as stylized flowers adorn the base that the joist hold down the hall. In the middle of the very spacious entrance to the hall there is a fountain, on both sides of which there are steps leading to the apartments on the ground floor. The wall of the fountain is adorned with a naked woman surrounded by flowers.
The hall of the house at Bundschuhstrasse 7 does not contain a fountain, but is instead richly painted. The female head of the facade can also be found on the ceiling of the stairwell, plus a rich ornamentation entirely in the forms of Art Nouveau.
literature
- Volker Helas , Gudrun Peltz: Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden . KNOP Verlag, Dresden 1999. ISBN 3-934363-00-8
- Matthias Donath , Jörg Blobelt: Angels in the hallway. Decorative art in Dresden residential buildings. edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2009.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Helas / Peltz, p. 184
- ↑ Helas / Peltz, p. 184
- ↑ a b Donath, p. 51
- ↑ Helas / Peltz, p. 104.
- ↑ Helas / Peltz, p. 103
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 23.5 " N , 13 ° 45 ′ 46.4" E