House on Pikk 18 - Tallinn, Estonia
N 59° 26.308 E 024° 44.748
35V E 372157 N 6591043
The House on Pikk 18 in the Old Town area of Tallinn, Estonia, is of the Art Nouveau architectural style.
Waymark Code: WMPR5E
Location: Estonia
Date Posted: 10/11/2015
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"In 1910, [Jacques] Rosenbaum completed another project for Reinhold Reichman, this time on Pikk 18 - just across the street from the earlier building. This building, possibly the most well-known Art Nouveau building in Tallinn, is a decidedly more purely Art Nouveau. Two large dragons, again sculpted by August Volz, flank a single large typically curved window on the ground floor. Above it, two stern Egyptian women with bare torsos emphasise the verticality of the façade. The Egyptian theme is repeated by two herms just below the roof-line. As in Art Nouveau architecture in general, and the contemporary symbolist movement in the arts, these ornaments were intended to convey a meaning or message apart from the purely decorative; however, as to exactly what they are intended to symbolise, there seems to be no clear consensus."
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