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them as if over electrical wires!' Dolf Sternberger, Panorama (Hamburg, 1938),
.
9,3]
InJugendstil, the bourgeoisie begins to come to terms with the conditions-not
yet, to be sure, of its social dominion-but of its dominion over nature. Insight
into these conditions engenders a strain at the threshold of its consciousness.
Hence the mysticism (Maeterlinck) which seeks to deflect this pressure; but
hence also the reception of technological forms in Jugendstil-for example, of
hollow space. [S9,4]
The chapter in Zarathustra entitled "Unter T6chtern der Wiiste" is instructive, not only for the fact that the flower
maidens-an important Jugendstil motif-make an appearance here in
Nietzsche, but also in view of Nietzsche's kinship with Guys. The phrase "deep
but without thoughts'"'' perfectly captures the expression worn by the prostitutes
in Guys. [S9.,1]
The extreme point in the technological organization of the world is the liquida·
tion of fertility. The frigid woman embodies the ideal of beauty in Jugendstil.
(Jugendstil sees in every woman not Helena but Olympia.) [S9.,2]
Individual, group, mass-the group is the principle of genre. For Jugendstil, the
isolation of the individual is typical (see Ibsen). [S9a,3]
Jugendstil represents an advance, insofar as the bourgeoisie gains access to the
technological bases of its control over nature; a regression, insofar as it loses the
power of looking the everyday in the face. (That can still be done only within the
security of the saving lie.)25-The bourgeoisie senses that its days are numbered;
all the more it wishes to stay young. Thus, it deludes itself with the prospect of a
longer life or, at the least, a deatll in beauty. [S9a,4]
Segantini and Munch; Margarete B6hme and Przybyszewski. [S9.,5]
Vaihinger's philosophy of the "as if" isJugendstil's little death knell, sounding for
those condemned. [S9a,6]
With the early works of Hennebique and the Perret brothers, a new chapter
opens in the history of architecture. The desire for escape and renewal, it. should
he added, had been seen in the efforts of the Jugendstil school, which failed miserably.
These architeets, it seemed, would torture stone to the point of exhaustion,
and they thus prepared the way for a fierce reaction in favor of simplicity. Architectural
art was to he reborn in serene forms through the utilization of new materials.'
Marcel Zahar, !.!.Les Tendances actuelles de l'architecture," Encyclopedie
fl"anqa;se, vol. 17, p. 17). [S9.,7]