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This research aims to clarify what happened during the last half of the history of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony. The last half is divided into a third period, 1906-10, and a fourth period, 1911-14. During the third period, from October 1906 till October 1907, Albin Mueller, a carpenter, Ernst Riegel, a goldsmith, Friedrich Wilhelm Kleukens, a graphic designer, Heinrich Jobst, a glass craftsman, and Christian Heinrich Kleukens, a book designer, were invited to the colony. The Grand Duke founded a factory for making fine glassware (1906), the Lehratelier workshops for applied arts (1907), and the Ernst-Ludwig-Press (1907). The 1908 Hesse Exhibition showed fine art and applied art made in the State of Hesse. Not only the members of the Colony but also private companies and the Craft School and Lehratelier for applied art in Hesse joined in the exhibition. At the exhibition's opening, the building complex of Wedding Tower and Municipal Exhibition Building designed by Olbrich was inaugurated. Mueller designed spacious, temporary buildings for the exhibition. In the applied arts section, the glassware made at the factory for fine glassware met with critical approval and the Darmstadt furniture factories showed examples of their excellent technique. During the fourth period, Mueller took up the leadership of the colony after Olbrich died. The Artists' Colony showed a continuity of artistic program and of ability to give leadership to home companies. The number of the Artists' Colony members increased to eleven. The new members were Bernhard Hoetger, a sculptor, Hans Pellar, a painter, Theodor Wende, a goldsmith, Emanuel Josef Margold, an architect and crafts designer, Edmund Koerner, an architect, Fritz Osswald, a painter. Many local companies and craftsmen co-operated in making the products designed by individual artists at the Colony. In answer to citizens' request, Mueller planned several apartments as a model for a new design for living. Classicism had already ruled his Interior Design with his use of Corinthian decoration. The breakout of World War I and the closing of the exhibition in 1914 led to the end of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony. |
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