Biedermeier to Bauhaus
By: Sigrid Sangl ; photographs by Barbara and René Stoeltie.
Contributors: Stoeltie, Barbara.; Stoeltie, René.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Interior decoration -- Germany -- History.
Description: A study of the interior design styles original to Germany. The reader is taken on a tour of German interiors from the 16th to the early-20th centuries, through Rococo summer palaces, elegant middle-class Biedermeier villas and simple rural retreats to the functional forms of the Bauhaus.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The influence of the Renaissance: the roots of German style in the sixteenth century; title: Baroque grandeur and rococo fantasies: nature as a model for interiors in the eighteenth century; title: Neo-classicism and the Biedermeier style: the impact of classical antiquity and the taste of the new bourgeoisie in the late eightennth and early nineteenth centuries; title: Historicism: the search for a 'true' German style in the nineteenth century; title: Jugendstil, the Werkstätten and the Bauhaus: the quest for a conciously modern style for the new twentieth century; title: The rural tradition: sentiment and reality through the centuries.