Apartment building Bürgerwiese 20
The tenement house Bürgerwiese 20 in Dresden was an Art Nouveau building built in Dresden in 1900. The house was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in 1945. The expensive facade designed by Felix Reinhold Voretzsch in a combination of neo-baroque and art nouveau showed a "particularly high design effort" . At that time Voretzsch was considered one of the pioneers of modern Art Nouveau. Voretzsch was among the Dresden architects "[...] in the front row" .
The high amount of plastic work was also reflected in the construction costs, which amounted to 320,000 marks. The four-story building with a stacked storey had a front length of seven window axes. At the ground floor level, atlases designed in the classic Dresden baroque and rococo style supported an oriel decorated with rich art nouveau-style architectural sculpture. A side elevation, which claimed two axes, showed rich sculptural ornamentation on the balcony parapets in the then modern Art Nouveau style. According to a contemporary opinion, the "composition of the facade already showed a completely modern feature, which is just as decidedly revealed in most of the plastic ornamentation."
literature
- Volker Helas, Gudrun Peltz: Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden. KNOP Verlag, Dresden 1999, ISBN 3-934363-00-8 .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Helas, Peltz: Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden. 1999, p. 75.
- ↑ a b The architecture of the XX. Century. 1st year 1901, 3rd issue, p. 41/42, plate 56.
- ↑ Helas, Peltz, p. 184 (Bürgerwiese 20), p. 102.
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 34 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 30.5" E