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- Title
Kowalstwo artystyczne w architekturze – brama wrocławskiej Elektrowni Wodnej II (Północnej) jako przykład integracji sztuk.
- Authors
Machometa, Izabela
- Abstract
The subject of this work is Wrocław art of craft in the early twentieth century's architecture. Its development was greatly infl uenced by the ideasto revive crafts and arts and bind them with industry; ideas which were established at the end of the nineteenth century by the English movement“Arts and Crafts". This research shows how the art of smithery was combined with architecture using the example of the hydroelectric plant building designed by Max Berg. The subject of this research is its gate made by a master of artistic smithery and sculptor, professor Jaroslav Vonka. A formal and iconographic analysis was performed. Special attention was paid to its composition, decorative motives and individual technological solutions.
- Subjects
HYDROELECTRIC power plant design &; construction; 20TH century architecture; ART metalwork; SYMBOLISM in art; GATE design &; construction; MODERN movement (Architecture)
- Publication
Architectus, 2014, Vol 39, Issue 3, p41
- ISSN
1429-7507
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5277/arc140304