Ceramic decoration of Bytom villa

A fragment of the eastern facade of the villa at Aleja Legionów 4 in Bytom with the date of its construction ANNO DOMINI MDCCCCI, made of yellow glaze.The Art Nouveau villa was funded by the townspeople for Georg Brüning, the mayor of Bytom who held the position for 37 years. The house was built in 1901 according to the design of Carl Brugger, the municipal construction counselor in Bytom in the years 1900–1918.A two-story villa with a gable roof, built on a rectangular plan, topped with screen undulating gables. The building's architecture was modeled on the solutions of the Viennese Secession. The façade on the ground floor is faced with red-brown clinker, which was also used to frame the windows of the ground floor, creating a pattern of wavy pediments. The rest of the building was covered with white glaze, which is the background for geometric and floral details. The house is topped with a graphite fish scale roof sheathing, perfectly matching the modest cobalt decorations of the upper parts of the building.The central part of the facade, from the street side, is decorated with an oak motif made of multi-colored glaze, with the Bytom coat of arms placed in its branches. Above it there is a three-way window with a motif of three towers above it. The entrance to the building is located in the western part, much more modestly decorated with a mosaic of yellow glazed brick with the salute of SALVE. In the eastern part, the date of the ANNO DOMINI MDCCCCI building was made of yellow glaze.