Tag: Meister der Innen-Kunst: Haus eines Kunstfreundes

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