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The Blue Room, Schloss Fischbach

Friedrich Wilhelm Klose1846

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

The Blue Room, most likely a dining room, is decorated in the Gothic Revival Style. A view of the beautiful countryside of Silesia is visible through the center window, with its stained glass upper transom, located in the seating alcove. The entrance to the alcove is hung with a blue-tasseled pelmet and white curtains. A religious painting, at left, is juxtaposed with flowers, plants, a desk, an etagere and a dining table, elements of a comfortable room in a country house. Both the green rug, bordered in a rose-flower pattern, and the central chandelier are influenced by Victorian decoration. An adjacent room, in pink tones, is seen at right.

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  • Title: The Blue Room, Schloss Fischbach
  • Creator: Friedrich Wilhelm Klose
  • Creator Lifespan: 1804/1863
  • Date Created: 1846
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: Thaw Collection
  • Medium: Brush and watercolor, graphite on white paper
  • Signed: Lower right, in brown ink: F. W. Klose
  • Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection; Hildegard Fritz-Denneville, London
  • Paper Support: White paper
  • Inscribed: On the reverse, "Buchwald"
  • Exhibitions: New York- CHNDM, House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection, August 12, 2008-January 25, 2009.Munster, Germany - Westfalisches Landesmueum, Glimpses of a Forgotten Germany, 1987.
  • Dimensions: Old frame H x W x D: 36.8 x 43.2 x 2 cm (14 1/2 x 17 x 13/16 in.)Sheet: 16.6 x 22.8 cm (6 9/16 x 9 in.)
  • Bibliography: Gail S. Davidson et al., House Proud, Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection (New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2008), 50, fig. 28; 106, pl. 39.Charlotte Gere, Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior (New York: Harry N. Abrams, In., 1989), 198.Munster, Westfalisches Landesmueum, Glimpses of a Forgotten Germany, 1987. no. 11 (illus.).Erich Wiese, Biedermeir-Reise durch Schlesien (Darmstadt, 1966), 268-272.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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