Glasshouses and Winter Gardens of the Nineteenth Century

Arts & Photography

Koppelkamm, Stefan

Architecture

GRANADA

Glasshouses and wintergardens of the nineteenth century

Rizzoli

DER IMAGINÄRE ORIENT (German Edition)

Ernst & Sohn

After the wall between the two German states fell in 1989, Stefan Koppelkamm used this historical moment to photograph building and townscapes in East Germany where time seem to have stood still.

Local Time

Individual Artists

Edition Axel Menges

In the eighteenth century the idea of the landscape garden spread all over Europe. At the same time the garden became the land of illusion: Chinese pagodas, Egyptian tombs and Turkish mosques, along with Gothic stables and Greek and Roman temples, formed a miniature world in which distance mingled with the past. The keen interest in a fairy-tale Orient was manifested also in architecture. This "Orient", which could hardly be clearly defined geographically, was characterized by Islamic culture. The Islamic styles seemed especially appropriate for buildings of a secular and cheerful character. The promise of happiness associated with an Orient staged by architectural means was intended to guarantee the commercial success of coffee houses and music halls, amusement parks and steam baths. But even extravagant summer residences and middle-class villas were built in faux-Oriental styles.

The Imaginary Orient: Exotic Buildings of the 18th and 19th Centuries in Europe

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