Timelessly beautiful?

Timelessly beautiful?
Wallpapers from the collection

For the first time in the history of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, a representative selection is being shown of the holdings of precious wallpapers dating from the period around 1900, some of which have never been exhibited before. Today the Textile and Decorative Arts collection in Chemnitz has more than 1000 samples of wallpaper thanks to targeted purchases of complete pattern books from French dealers as well as comprehensive donations, such as for example by the Chemnitz wallpaper manufacturer Max Langhammer. Not only Saxon, German and Austrian manufacturers are included, but also numerous English, American and French specimens. With their opulent flower arrangements, ornamental friezes and in some cases strictly geometrical patterns, the wallpapers dating from the Art Nouveau era indicate how sophisticated elegance in everyday life became affordable for more people.