Frankfurter Strasse 142 (Offenbach am Main)
The Villa Frankfurter Straße 142 in the west end of Offenbach am Main is a listed residential building.
The building
The free-standing, strictly neoclassical villa right on the city limits of Frankfurt was built in 1912/13 by Heinz Collin (1881–1967). The house is a two-story, cubic, plastered building under a hipped roof with square pilaster strips on a raised ground floor. The cornice is shaped like a volute . The exterior colors were felt to be unusually bright during construction. The dark yellow used was largely rejected in public.
The nudes in the window lunettes of the facade are probably from Karl Huber (1872–1952), a teacher at the technical college . It is possible to interpret the man with the lyre and the dancing woman as Orpheus and Eurydice .
literature
- Angelika Amborn-Morgenstern: Catalog of the exhibition in Offenbach City Museum, November 26, 1987 - May 1, 1988: Home-style living in Offenbach around 1900: Architecture, furnishings, objects of daily use: Exhibition in Offenbach City Museum, November 26, 1987 - May 1, 1988, P. 87, DNB 890126941
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Frankfurter Straße 142 In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 6.2 " N , 8 ° 44 ′ 41.7" E