Travel in Alesund: City Art In Norway
Posted in category: Best Tourism at: July 2, 2010 by Info Tourism
Travel in Alesund: City Art In Norway : Alesund, Norway, from a disaster area, the meeting of two rivers that formed from a series of natural events creates an art in the city of mainland Norway.
At the turn of the 20th century, Alesund very successful and prosperous. Its strategic location made up of seven islands along the southwest coast of Norway, Alesund filled with wooden buildings where life is guaranteed thanks to the merchant marine product trade.
In late winter night in January 1904, strong storms strike this area and grabbed a wooden building in Alesund and the flames quickly spread to the entire contents of which causes severe fires. The next day, the town was completely razed, 11,000 people losing their homes because of the accident.
In post-disaster in 1904, the number of unemployed in this country torn rose sharply boosting its number of construction workers in Alesund come looking for work. Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, which has fallen in love with the country he often visited it, sending troops and a number of items need to help rebuild the shattered city.
Fortunately, the rich merchant in Alesund in the end took the initiative to pay more for the best and decided not to use more expensive building materials, traditional, and flammable and rebuild their cities using bricks and stones.
Fifty-one architects and master builders from England and Germany who have been trained and are masters at engineering new architecture Art Nouveau style (opera house), or Jugendstil, arrived to offer assistance.
The Norwegian Government aims to revive the city of Alesund, and within three years, from the rubble of post-disaster areas destroyed by fire in 1904 became a seaside scene, now dubbed the “City of the richest and most comprehensive art in continental Europe.”
Because most of the architects of Alesund been accustomed to use the design techniques of ancient German gothic style, they tend to ignore the original theme of the German nation itself, simplifying the complicated structural rhetoric of a medieval mythology, and instead use a flow-style “Norse”.
Predicate engineers design functional, efficient place but a concept patterned, and liked the lighting effects galore, Alesund builders choose the type of Art Nouveau architectural works of modern art.
Combine motifs from Norse mythology and Viking history, making the building look natural, which is interpreted through the privilege, the embodiment of science buildings made by hand. Everything is rooted in a wealth of art, the buildings appear to have grown organically. No building in Alesund that look the same to each other.
Viewed from any angle, and the detailed structure of the building continues to attract attention. Ornamental flowers are blooming on the balcony of a charming design of the wrought-iron decorations. Periphery structure window contrast, and decorated with ornaments complex nuances of color along the front of the house, like the proverbial phoenix, a popular rose from the dust of the past to welcome the new arrival.
With a background of snowy mountains and narrow bay, Alesund is now an architectural masterpiece in which the population is very enthusiastic about maintaining the integrity of the structure of his country.
Is one member of the Réseau Art Nouveau Network, an organization consisting of 21 cities that are committed and responsible for the maintenance of art cities in continental Europe. Of the 600 structures in Alesund buildings built between the years 1904-1907, 400 of them are still there, this is a concentration of some of the greatest buildings in the world.
To review the city as a whole can through the Center for Art Alesund or Jugendstilsenteret Wealth, is a museum which is equipped with interactive multimedia equipment. Located at the former Swan drug store, built between 1905-1907, the drug store has been restored to its original form in 1907 era, complete with parts you’ll enjoy the form, wall paper chrysanthemum flower pictures from the Japanese model of William Morris, furniture made with a special purpose, and collection of glass art and stained glass windows which were displayed in the top few floors.
In the museum are available slide-show that plays Alesund conditions before, during, and after the fire. Visitors can see the life and work of the creator of family building, there is also a café and souvenir shop.