Somehow that house is kitsch and also is not kitsch. Apparently it's from the beginning intended as a place to merge dream, theater, and sober waking life. Accordingly, the house is a castle and is also _not_ really a castle. This dichotomy matches the concept expressed in the title of Goethe's autobiography "Dichtung und Wahrheit", which literally means "poetry and facts". Hauptmann has resembled Goethe, and has emulated him, strongly enough to have internalized such a tendency of his idol to a corresponding degree. Who ever has visited Goethe's Haus am Frauenplan in Weimar will be surprised by the congeniality in which also the Jagniątków domicile connects rooms with walls in various plain, partially very bright colors as backdrops to equally plain but exquisite sculpture. Nevertheless, Hauptmann's house must have been meant as a reincarnation of Goethe's _Gartenhaus_ in the park at the Ilm, given its overall shape. I assume that Hauptmann has lived as much as he has done it in the Berlin Hotel Adlon because the latter by its shape and central urban location resembles the Haus am Frauenplan. The imagery from Jagniątków here presented, apart from such relations to Goethe, to me suggests that if you go farther back in history to find another forerunner of the style of both Goethe and Hauptmann, you'll soon end up with Rubens. Mankind apparently from time to time gives birth to such an individual.
Somehow that house is kitsch and also is not kitsch. Apparently it's from the beginning intended as a place to merge dream, theater, and sober waking life. Accordingly, the house is a castle and is also _not_ really a castle. This dichotomy matches the concept expressed in the title of Goethe's autobiography "Dichtung und Wahrheit", which literally means "poetry and facts". Hauptmann has resembled Goethe, and has emulated him, strongly enough to have internalized such a tendency of his idol to a corresponding degree.
Who ever has visited Goethe's Haus am Frauenplan in Weimar will be surprised by the congeniality in which also the Jagniątków domicile connects rooms with walls in various plain, partially very bright colors as backdrops to equally plain but exquisite sculpture.
Nevertheless, Hauptmann's house must have been meant as a reincarnation of Goethe's _Gartenhaus_ in the park at the Ilm, given its overall shape. I assume that Hauptmann has lived as much as he has done it in the Berlin Hotel Adlon because the latter by its shape and central urban location resembles the Haus am Frauenplan.
The imagery from Jagniątków here presented, apart from such relations to Goethe, to me suggests that if you go farther back in history to find another forerunner of the style of both Goethe and Hauptmann, you'll soon end up with Rubens. Mankind apparently from time to time gives birth to such an individual.