Interior Doors · Alpine Chalet
Carved Gothic Door in the Niederdorf Stube
A board door in a 16th-century Tyrolean Stube, its face carved with a tall ogee-arched frame and tracery rosettes.
Design characteristics
This door opens from the paneled Stube of the courthouse (Gerichtshaus) in Niederdorf, a room now installed in the Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum in Innsbruck. Rather than being built up from frames and panels, the door is a flat boarded leaf, and its ornament is cut into the surface: an ogee arch outlined in relief rises almost the full height of the door, with three tracery rosettes carved into its head. The Gothic vocabulary, still in use in Alpine woodwork in the 1500s, gives a plain plank door the presence of a church portal while leaving it flush with the wall paneling around it. Detail cropped from a photograph of the full room.
Classification
- Style
- Alpine Chalet
- Category
- Interior Doors
- Material
- Pine
- Motifs
- Gothic tracery, Carved panel, Board paneling
- Photograph
- 2017
- Photographer
- Pakeha
- Evidence
- Photograph of a documented interior or object
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Architectural context
Wood-lined Stuben, carved and painted pine, and benches built into the walls. Tyrol, Switzerland and Bavaria · vernacular, 1300s onward.
