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Article: DARMSTADT CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF ART NOUVEAU.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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FEW visitors to central Germany would include Darmstadt as part of their itinerary. Just south of that gigantic beehive that is Frankfurt, and slightly off the majestic river Rhine, it is a place where one might easily miss an important chapter of European history of art, written here 100 years ago, let alone a multitude of events to commemorate the fact.
Whenever I approach Darmstadt by train via the bleak industrial estates that surround it, I make every effort to spot the city's most famous landmark: the Wedding Tower, designed in 1905 by Art Nouveau architect Joseph Maria Olbrich, and clearly visible from a distance. Via a splendid Art Nouveau Hauptbahnhof ...