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Bedroom for the Dresdener Werkstätte exhibition

M224 Bedroom for the Dresdener Werkstätte exhibition

Address: Grosser Garten, at corner of Lennéstrasse and Stübelallee, Dresden, Germany
Date: 1903
Client: Dresdener Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst; Karl Schmidt
Authorship: Authorship category 1 (Mackintosh) (Mackintosh)
1900
19 December: Mackintosh writes to Hermann Muthesius that he and Margaret Macdonald will try to make a whole room for Dresden, but that the expense is a problem. He asks for further particulars of the exhibition. 1
1902
21 August: Arrangements for a large exhibition of work by the Dresdener Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst are under way. Founder and proprietor Karl Schmidt writes to the mayor of Dresden requesting the use of halls in the Ausstellungspalast (exhibition palace) and gives details of his plans, potential participants and projected expenditure. 2
1903
13 May: Muthesius writes to Mackintosh that he is sending a group of Germans to Glasgow to view his work. The group includes Karl Schmidt. 3
27 May: Mackintosh reports to Muthesius on the Germans' visit. Schmidt has asked Mackintosh to design a bedroom for his exhibition in Dresden. 4
14 October: Schmidt signs the contract with the city authorities detailing the conditions of operation of the exhibition. 5
14 November: Exhibition opens. 6
1904
10 January: Exhibition closes. 7

Notes:

1: Berlin, Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge: Hermann Muthesius Estate, letter from Mackintosh to Muthesius, 19 December 1900. It is not clear whether this refers to the 1903–4 exhibition for which Mackintosh designed the bedroom, or an earlier exhibition such as the Dresden international art exhibition of 1901.

2: Stadtarchiv Dresden, 9.1.15, Ausstellungsamt, Nr. 67, pp. 1a–2b, letter from Schmidt to Oberbürgermeister Beutler, 21 August 1902.

3: Berlin, Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge: Hermann Muthesius Estate, Muthesius letter book II, copy of letter from Muthesius to Mackintosh, 13 May 1903. On 17 May 1903 Muthesius writes to Macdonald, mentioning the forthcoming one-day visit of the Germans to Glasgow. Berlin, Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge: Hermann Muthesius Estate, Muthesius letter book II, copy of letter from Muthesius to Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, 17 May 1903.

4: Berlin, Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge: Hermann Muthesius Estate, letter from Mackintosh to Muthesius, 27 May 1903.

5: Stadtarchiv Dresden, 9.1.15, Ausstellungsamt, Nr. 67, pp. 35a–37b, contract between 'the council of Dresden, administrator of the exhibition site, and Mr Karl Kamillo Schmidt, proprietor of the Dresdener Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst Schmidt & Müller', signed on 14 October 1903.

6: Stadtarchiv Dresden, 9.1.15, Ausstellungsamt, Nr. 67, p. 36a contract between 'the council of Dresden, administrator of the exhibition site, and Mr Karl Kamillo Schmidt, proprietor of the Dresdener Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst Schmidt & Müller', signed on 14 October 1903.

7: Stadtarchiv Dresden, 9.1.15, Ausstellungsamt, Nr. 67, p. 36a, contract between 'the council of Dresden, administrator of the exhibition site, and Mr Karl Kamillo Schmidt, proprietor of the Dresdener Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst Schmidt & Müller', signed on 14 October 1903.