Albergo Monte Verità

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Albergo Monte Verità by Emil Fahrenkamp
Extension by Livio Vacchini

Albergo Monte Verità refers to a listed building complex with surrounding park on Monte Verità in Ascona , which was built in the years 1926–1929 by the architect Emil Fahrenkamp . A modern extension from the 1990s was designed by the Ticino architect Livio Vacchini .

The hotel building was included in the monument register as the most important example of modern architecture in the canton of Ticino and is now classified as a cultural asset of national importance (A property) with the highest Swiss protection level. The neighboring Museo Casa Anatta with the museum tour (Percorso museale Monte Verità) is a cultural asset of the same rank. The protected objects include other buildings and the park.

history

In autumn 1900 Ida Hofmann , Henri Oedenkoven and other people founded a colony of the life reform movement on Monte Verità above Ascona. The first buildings were spartan wooden huts with one or two rooms, which were called "light-air huts". To finance their project, Oedenkoven and his partner Hofmann soon founded the natural healing facility Sonnen-Kuranstalt for paying spa guests , which was followed shortly afterwards by the Monte Verità sanatorium . In 1907/08 the Casa Anatta was built as a residential building and community house below the Casa Centrale .

In 1920 the facility was leased and a children's home was housed in the main house; the Casa Anatta served as a restaurant with dance and music. The home was soon closed again by the authorities.

On the recommendation of the Russian painter Marianne von Werefkin , the art collector Eduard von der Heydt bought the entire complex in 1926. Von der Heydt commissioned Emil Fahrenkamp to build the hotel on Monte Verità and made the mountain a meeting place for well-known visitors from politics, art and society . In 1964 he bequeathed the complex to the Canton of Ticino as a gift.

Monte Verità was rediscovered in 1978 by Harald Szeemann's exhibition Mammelle delle verità and a revival meeting initiated by Hermann Müller. In 1989 the Monte Verità Foundation was established. She is responsible for the operation of the facility, including the “Centro Stefano Franscini ” (CSF), the international conference center of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . The CSF organizes up to 25 scientific conferences per year on Monte Verità. The canton of Ticino holds cultural events in the remaining time.

The hotel building

The building was built in the classic modern style by Emil Fahrenkamp in 1926–1929 . The large terrace uses the stairs of the demolished Casa Centrale , the former sanatorium.

View from one of the rooms

With its clear, linear shapes, wide windows and flat roofs, the building, like the Teatro San Materno, is an important example of modern architecture. The furniture in the rooms is designed in the same style, including armchairs from the “Wassily” model by Bauhaus teacher Marcel Breuer . Von der Heydt furnished the rooms of the hotel with part of his art collection. Today there are around 500 works of art from the 16th to 20th centuries as well as from China and Japan. Other parts of the collection went to the Rietberg Museum in Zurich and the Wuppertal Municipal Museum .

The hotel was rebuilt and renewed in 1970. Most of the rooms are in their original condition, as they were all equipped with spacious bathrooms when it was built. Between 1990 and 1991, the architect Livio Vacchini added another wing with a restaurant and auditorium.

Other buildings and objects

  • The Casa dei Russi was named after Russian visitors and reopened in 2015 after renovation.
  • Casa Aida , a spartan «light-air hut».
  • The Loreley House serves as the tea house for the tea park opened in 2006.
  • Villa Semiramis , built in Art Nouveau style .
  • The Casa Francesco was built in 1903–1906 for Karl Gräser in the heritage style, based on a design by the architect Paul Evertz, with two wall frescoes by Alexander Wilhelm de Beauclair . In the house one should Hesse - grasses -Museum be established, but it is currently under threat of demolition.
  • Park with facilities for ritual ablutions from the early 20th century.
    • «Roue Oriflamme / Goldflammendes Rad» by Hans Arp (1962)
    • Art installation “Arcobaleno di Chiara”.

  • Casa dei Russi

  • Villa Semiramis

  • «Roue Oriflamme / Gold Flaming Wheel»

  • Historical shower in the park

Museum tour
  • Casa Anatta , built in 1907/08 in the Art Nouveau style. The house was already known as the “most original Swiss house in wood” in 1930 and now houses permanent exhibitions on the history of Monte Verità and its colony.
  • The Casa Selma is a typical "light-air hut" built in 1904 from the early days of the colony.
  • The Padiglione Elisarion is a wooden pavilion that emerged from a former lounge hall. Today there is the giant painting Chiaro mondo dei beati by Elisar von Kupffer (1923).

literature

  • Gabriele Geronzi, Bruno Reichlin, Danilo Soldati, Carlo Zanetti: Storia architettonica e restauro del Monte Verità . In: Fondazione Monte Verità (ed.): Arte e storia . No. 74 . Ticino Management, 2017 (volume published on the occasion of the renovation of Casa Anatta).

Web links

Commons : Albergo Monte Verità  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inventario svizzero dei beni culturali d'importanza nazionale (list of monuments A objects canton Ticino (status 2018), Italian, PDF)
  2. ↑ Cultural property protection inventory with objects of national importance, KGS-DS-No. 10262.
  3. ^ Category "A" in the inventory of cultural property protection with objects of national importance, KGS-DS-No. 8634.
  4. ↑ Gabriele Geronzi, Bruno Reichlin, Danilo Soldati, Carlo Zanetti: Storia e architettonica restauro del Monte Verita . In: Fondazione Monte Verità (ed.): Arte e storia . No. 74 . Ticino Management, 2017, Casa Anatta, l'oggetto misterioso del Monte Verità, p. 45 .
  5. ^ Robert Landmann, Ascona - Monte Verità, In Search of Paradise, Frankfurt / M., Berlin, Vienna 1979, pp. 190f
  6. ↑ About us - Fondazione Monte Verità. In: monteverita.org. Retrieved November 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Centro Stefano Franscini. In: monteverita.org. Retrieved November 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Lidia Zaza Sciolli, Mara Folini: The Collection Baron von der Heydt at Monte Verita. In the exhibition catalog: Dal Seicento olandese alle avanguardie del primo Novecento. Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano 1996, p. 72.

Coordinates: 46 ° 9 '30.7 "  N , 8 ° 45' 46.5"  E ; CH1903:  seven hundred and two thousand two hundred and ninety-five  /  112758