dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
künstler: Albert Francis Fleury, Charles Holloway
titel: «The utterance of life is a song, the symphony of nature» (Sullivan)
jahr: 1889
adresse: Auditorium Theater (proscenium and side walls), 50 East Congress St, Chicago IL, USA
+: Oil and gold leat on dry plaster / oil on woven linen, 24' x 20' each. Commissioned by the Chicago Auditorium Association (Ferdinand Peck, Marshall Field, Martin Ryerson, Nathaniel Kellogg and others)
«[…] the theater was repeatedly threatened with demolition. In 1946 ist existence seemed assured when the newly founded Roosevelt University bought the complex, and nearly twenty years later the theater was restored […]. Now protected by landmark status, what has survived is Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan's masterpiece, a space of exquisite beauty with a unified decorative program that presents Sullivan's idea of architecture as nature. […]» (Lackritz 2001, p. 7)