Category: Hesse

Images from the portfolio “Meister der Innen-Kunst: Haus eines Kunstfreundes,” which was published in Darmstadt, Germany by A. Koch in 1902. Part of a contest by Zeitschrift für Innendekoration. All of these being from Volume I with the text being in English and the captioning being in German.

Title page. Image 3 from the 1902 portfolio MEISTER DER INNEN-KUNST: Haus Eines Kunst-Freundes (Masters of Interior Design: The House of an Art Lover). Alex Koch, Darmstadt, publisher with designs by Baillie Scott. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008235489/page/n3/mode/1up
MOTTO: DULCE DOMUM: Baillie Scott, Isle of Man: Haus eines Kunst-freundes Verlage-Anstalt; Alexander Koch, Darmstadt. Tafel V. Image 16 (17) from the 1902 portfolio MEISTER DER INNEN-KUNST: Haus Eines Kunst-Freundes (Masters of Interior Design: The House of an Art Lover). Alex Koch, Darmstadt, publisher with designs by Baillie Scott. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008235489/page/n16/mode/1up
HALL: Baillie Scott, Isle of Man: Haus eines Kunst-freundes Verlage-Anstalt; Alexander Koch, Darmstadt. Image 18 from the 1902 portfolio MEISTER DER INNEN-KUNST: Haus Eines Kunst-Freundes (Masters of Interior Design: The House of an Art Lover). Alex Koch, Darmstadt, publisher with designs by Baillie Scott. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008235489/page/n18/mode/1up
DINING ROOM: Baillie Scott, Isle of Man: Haus eines Kunst-freundes Verlage-Anstalt; Alexander Koch, Darmstadt. Image 20 from the 1902 portfolio MEISTER DER INNEN-KUNST: Haus Eines Kunst-Freundes (Masters of Interior Design: The House of an Art Lover). Alex Koch, Darmstadt, publisher with designs by Baillie Scott. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008235489/page/n20/mode/1up
MUSIC ROOM: Baillie Scott, Isle of Man: Haus eines Kunst-freundes Verlage-Anstalt; Alexander Koch, Darmstadt. Image 22 from the 1902 portfolio MEISTER DER INNEN-KUNST: Haus Eines Kunst-Freundes (Masters of Interior Design: The House of an Art Lover). Alex Koch, Darmstadt, publisher with designs by Baillie Scott. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008235489/page/n22/mode/1up
PLAY ROOM and STUDY: Baillie Scott, Isle of Man: Haus eines Kunst-freundes Verlage-Anstalt; Alexander Koch, Darmstadt. Image 24 from the 1902 portfolio MEISTER DER INNEN-KUNST: Haus Eines Kunst-Freundes (Masters of Interior Design: The House of an Art Lover). Alex Koch, Darmstadt, publisher with designs by Baillie Scott. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008235489/page/n24/mode/1up
Top to bottom: BEDROOM IN PARENTS’ SUITE; BATH; AND LADIES ROOM. Baillie Scott, Isle of Man: Haus eines Kunst-freundes Verlage-Anstalt; Alexander Koch, Darmstadt. Image 26 from the 1902 portfolio MEISTER DER INNEN-KUNST: Haus Eines Kunst-Freundes (Masters of Interior Design: The House of an Art Lover). Alex Koch, Darmstadt, publisher with designs by Baillie Scott. Collections of the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008235489/page/n26/mode/1up

Grand Duke Ernst of Hesse-Darmstadt appears to have been an Art Nouveau/Jugendstil art lover as he set up an artist’s colony in Hesse-Darmstadt and this portfolio must have been part of that. He was the brother of the last Russian tsarina the Empress Alexandra. His mother was a daughter of Queen Victoria which explains the London connection. I blogged a few of these images a number of years ago in a different post. I’m not sure of when I happened upon the Internet Archive but at the time of my earlier post there was no scanned version of the entire portfolio or at least not one I was aware of. This has all the designs.

Plates from the portfolio of prints “Meister der Innen-Kunst: Haus eines Kunstfreundes” which has artwork by various people. Designed in 1901, it was published in Darmstadt, Germany in 1902. Part of a contest by Zeitschrift für Innendekoration

“Image of the dining room, as proposed by Hugh Baillie Scott“. From the 1902 portfolio “Master of Interior Decoration: House of an Art Lover.” Collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Image © MUSEUM ASSOCIATES 2022. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain. via https://collections.lacma.org/node/175367
House interior, as proposed by the Austrian architect Leopold Bauer. From the 1902 portfolio “Master of Interior Decoration: House of an Art Lover.” Collections of the Wolfsonian-FIU Rare Books and Special Collections Library. Image © Wolfsonian-FIU Rare Books and Special Collections Library. Artwork itself in the public domain. Fair use license. via https://wolfsonianfiulibrary.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/from-whiplash-lines-through-utopia-to-skyscrapers-built-and-unbuilt-landmark-architectural-designs-in-the-wolfsonian-library/
Empfangs – Raum und Musik – Zimmer (Reception room and Music Room). Panels by Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh. Charles Rennie Mackintosh, artist.” From the 1902 portfolio “Master of Interior Decoration: House of an Art Lover.” Image © 2021 Sothebys. Fair use license. Artwork itself in the public domain. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/important-manuscripts-continental-books-and-music-2/mackintosh-baillie-scott-and-bauer-meister-der

Decorate your hallway in animals styled up the Jugendstil way. Illustrations from Alexander Koch’s “Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration” which was published in Darmstadt in 1897.

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“Flamingos.” Page 123. 1897. Ludwig Jungnickel, Munich, creator. Collections of and scanned by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125006095430/page/n123/mode/2up

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Leoparden. Page 125. Ludwig Jungnickel, Munich, creator. Collections of and scanned by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125006095430/page/n125/mode/2up

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Panther. Page 126. Ludwig Jungnickel, Munich, creator. Collections of and scanned by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125006095430/page/n125/mode/2up

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Marabus. Page 127. Ludwig Jungnickel, Munich, creator. Collections of and scanned by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/gri_33125006095430/page/n127/mode/1up

Down on the water with Hessian/German landscape painter Carl Morgenstern. Living from 1811 to 1893, he came from a family of Frankfurt artists. Lived in Frankfurt but traveled to Italy and other places and so painted landscapes there too.

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“View of the Amalfi Coast.” 1867. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated “C. Morgenstern 1867” on the bottom right. Image source Sotheby’s. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Morgenstern_-_Blick_auf_die_K%C3%BCste_von_Amalfi_(1867).jpg

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“Südliche Küstenlandschaft.” No date. Oil on cardboard. Source: Palais Dorotheum. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Morgenstern_-_S%C3%BCdliche_K%C3%BCstenlandschaft.jpg

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Terracina mit Fischfelsen. 19th c. Image © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. Fair use license. via https://www.amazon.com/kunst-f%C3%BCr-alle-Print-Poster/dp/B017DC0HV4?th=1