RIEMERSCHMID, Richard

Hellerau is a northern quarter in the city of Dresden. It was the first garden city in Germany. Based on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928), businessman Karl Schmidt-Hellerau (1873-1948) founded Hellerau in 1909. The idea was to create an organic, planned community. Several well-known architects participated in its construction, including Richard Riemerschmid.

The development lies on gently sloping ground and is laid out as a series of curvilinear streets of an overall organic type form. Materials are typically cream rendered walls on a stone base, with red tile roofs and green windows (mainly with shutters). The landscape is dominated by tall conifers.

The photo shows a typical row of residential houses in the Gartenstadt Hellerau, Dresden, called “Am Gr�nen Zipfel” (“At the green tip”).

This piece was made by Dresdner Werkstätten f�r Handwerkskunst, Hellerau.

In 1898 Riemerschmid was commissioned to design a music room for the Munich piano manufacturer J. Mayer & Co., which was subsequently exhibited at the Deutsche Kunstausstellung exhibition in Dresden in 1899. The armchair and side chair, with its diagonal bracing, designed for this room, are some of his most original and best-known designs.

The picture shows a chair designed for the music room exhibited in Dresden in 1899.

This piece was made by Merkelbach Wilhelm Reinhold, Grenzhausen.

In contrast to his colleagues, Richard Riemerschmid never gave up painting, and his Symbolistic, decorative pictures are of high quality.

The frame (wood, painted plaster) has the inscription: Und Gott der Herr Pflantze in einen Garten Eden (And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden)

This piece was made by Merkelbach Wilhelm Reinhold, Grenzhausen.

Hellerau is a northern quarter in the city of Dresden. It was the first garden city in Germany. Based on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928), businessman Karl Schmidt-Hellerau (1873-1948) founded Hellerau in 1909. The idea was to create an organic, planned community. Several well-known architects participated in its construction, including Richard Riemerschmid.

The development lies on gently sloping ground and is laid out as a series of curvilinear streets of an overall organic type form. Materials are typically cream rendered walls on a stone base, with red tile roofs and green windows (mainly with shutters). The landscape is dominated by tall conifers.

Hellerau is a northern quarter in the city of Dresden. It was the first garden city in Germany. Based on the ideas of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928), businessman Karl Schmidt-Hellerau (1873-1948) founded Hellerau in 1909. The idea was to create an organic, planned community. Several well-known architects participated in its construction, including Richard Riemerschmid.

The development lies on gently sloping ground and is laid out as a series of curvilinear streets of an overall organic type form. Materials are typically cream rendered walls on a stone base, with red tile roofs and green windows (mainly with shutters). The landscape is dominated by tall conifers.

The Deutsche Werkstatten, a large factory involved in the production of craft furniture, played a central role in the function of the community.

The photo shows residential houses at the Festspielhaus, on the north-western edge of the garden city of Hellerau.

As well as his schemes for interiors, Riemerschmid produced several designs for buildings, mostly country houses such as his family house (1896) at Pasing, near Munich, which combined German vernacular elements with the influence of the English Arts and Crafts Movement.