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| - | '''Paul Karl Wilhelm Scheerbart''' (born [[January 8]] [[1863]] in [[Danzig]] - [[October 15]], [[1915]] in [[Berlin]]) was an author of [[fantastic]] [[literature]] and [[drawing]]s. He published also under the [[pseudonym]] ''Kuno Küfer''. He is best known for the book ''[[Glasarchitektur]]'' from [[1914]]. | + | The '''Glass Pavilion''', built in 1914 and designed by [[Bruno Taut]], was a [[Cupola (geometry)|prismatic]] [[glass]] [[dome]] structure at the [[Cologne]] [[Werkbund Exhibition (1914)|Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition]]. |
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| - | He was associated with [[expressionist architecture]] and [[Bruno Taut]]. He composed aphoristic poems about [[glass]] for the [[Glass Pavilion]] at the [[Werkbund Exhibition (1914)]]. | + | |
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| - | == Life == | + | |
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| - | Paul Scheerbart began his studies of [[philosophy]] and [[history of art]] in [[1885]]. In [[1887]] he worked as a poet in [[Berlin]] and tried to invent [[Perpetual motion]] machines. In [[1892]] he was one of the joint founders of the ''Verlag deutscher Phantasten'' (Publishers of German Dreamers). | + | |
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| - | At this time he was in financial difficulties. After writing in different publications he produced his first [[novel]] ''''Die große Revolution'''' ('' The Great Revolution ''), which was published by the [[Insel-Verlag]]. The young [[Ernst Rowohlt]] published Scheerbart's bizarre poem collection ''Katerpoesie'' and became his friend. | + | |
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| - | Scheerbart's fantastic essays about glass architecture influenced architects at that time, including the young [[Bruno Taut]]. Among his Berlin friends and drinking circle was [[Erich Mühsam]], who dedicated a chapter to Scheerbart in his 'Unpolitical Memories'. Scheerbart, whose own works played on far planets, was also friendly with [[Richard Dehmel]]. He had an important influence on [[Walter Benjamin]] who quoted his ideas on glass in his [[Arcades Project]]. | + | |
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| - | == Work == | + | |
| - | * 1889 ''Das Paradies. Die Heimat der Kunst'' (Paradise. Home of the Arts) | + | |
| - | * 1893 ''Ja... was... möchten wir nicht Alles!'', (Yes.....What......We woudn't all like to have!), A Fable | + | |
| - | * 1897 ''Ich liebe Dich!'', (I love you), A Novel with 66 [[Intermezzo]]s | + | |
| - | * 1897 ''Bagdads berühmte Köchin'', (Bagdad's famous female cook), Arab culture novel | + | |
| - | * 1897 ''Der Tod der Barmekiden'', (The death of the Barmekiden), Arab Harem novel | + | |
| - | * 1898 ''Na prost!'', (Well Cheers!) Fantasy King novel | + | |
| - | * 1900 ''Die wilde Jagd'', (The wild hunt), a development novel in eight stories | + | |
| - | * 1901 ''Rakkóx der Billionär'', (Rakkóx the trillionaire) an ostentatious novel | + | |
| - | * 1901 ''Die Seeschlange'' (The Sea Serpent) A sea novel | + | |
| - | * 1902 ''Die große Revolution'', (The Great Revolution) A moon novel | + | |
| - | * 1902 ''Immer mutig!'', (Always courageously!) A Fantasy novel | + | |
| - | * 1902 ''Liwûna und Kaidôh'', A Soul novel | + | |
| - | * 1902 ''Weltglanz'', (World Shine), a sun fairy tale | + | |
| - | * 1903 ''Kometentanz'', (Comet dance), Astral Pantomime in two acts | + | |
| - | * 1903 ''Der Aufgang zur Sonne'', (The stairway to the sun), house fairy tales | + | |
| - | * 1904 ''Der Kaiser von Utopia'', (The emperor of Utopia), a folktale | + | |
| - | * 1904 ''Machtspäße'', (Clowning about), Arab novellas | + | |
| - | * 1904 ''Revolutionäre Theater-Bibliothek'', (Revolutionary theatre library), collection of plays | + | |
| - | * 1906 ''Münchhausen und Clarissa'', Berlin novel | + | |
| - | * 1909 ''Die Entwicklung des Luftmilitarismus und die Auflösung der europäischen Land-Heere, Festungen und Seeflotten'', (The development of air militarism and the dissolution of the European Land-army, fortresses and sea-fleets) | + | |
| - | * 1909 ''Kater-Poesie'', (Kater poetry), poems | + | |
| - | * 1910 ''Das Perpetuum mobile'', (The Perpetual mobile), the history of an invention | + | |
| - | * 1912 ''Das große Licht'', (The Great Light) A [[Baron Munchhausen|Münchhausen]]-[[Breviary]] | + | |
| - | * 1912 ''Flora Mohr'', A glass flower novella | + | |
| - | * 1913 ''Lesabéndio'', an Asteroid novel | + | |
| - | * 1914 ''Das graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiß'', (The grey cloth and ten per cent of white), a ladies novel | + | |
| - | * 1914 ''Glasarchitektur'' (Glass architecture) | + | |
| - | * 1921 ''Von Zimmer zu Zimmer'', (From room to room) letters to his wife | + | |
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The Glass Pavilion, built in 1914 and designed by Bruno Taut, was a prismatic glass dome structure at the Cologne Deutscher Werkbund Exhibition.
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