House of high poplars
The "Hohe Pappeln" house is the former home of Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) in Weimar and is now used as a museum by the Weimar Classic Foundation .
In 1902 the Belgian architect and designer Henry van de Velde came to Weimar through the mediation of his friend and sponsor Harry Graf Kessler . On behalf of Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst , he was here to advise Thuringian handicrafts in terms of style and founded the arts and crafts seminar, from which the arts and crafts school in Weimar emerged in 1908 . In 1906/07 he had an Art Nouveau country house built according to his own designs for himself and his family after the original rented apartment on Cranachstrasse in Weimar had become too small for the family of seven.
Location and description
The house is located on the west side of Belvederer Allee at number 58 and owes its name to its location on the edge of an area with tall poplars . A roundabout ideal for carriages led to the house entrance. The entering in the mezzanine floor lying flat on an L-shaped staircase on the northern tip of the house, the floor plan is similar to a ship. Between the hall and the front door you enter a vestibule with a three-part window that gives the room light and which had to be pushed up to receive mail. After walking through the corridor you come to a hallway from which a staircase leads to the privately inhabited upper floor. A wide passage leads from here to the salon, which used to be the lounge, music salon and boudoir . It was Maria van de Velde's area who had her desk here. The room also served as a location for private readings, lectures or musical soirées . A sliding door leads from the salon to the master's office (closed in July 2015 for renovation work). A side door is in the wall to the hall. In the “rear” of the house is the large dining room, which is surrounded by a U-shaped balcony, from which a staircase leads into the garden. Here you can find the small fountain and a figure of George Minne . The kitchen was in the basement .
Van de Velde planned the external shape of the house based on the internal structure and function of the rooms. Its design is considered exemplary for van de Velde's reduced, functional and elegant design language. Helene von Nostitz from among the New Weimar wrote:
- “ As if the ground had arched, the Allee van de Velde's house grows under the chestnut trees, small, firm and organic like a plant from the ground, in front of it tall shrubs and the hum of bees. “The visitors to the house included numerous artists and friends, including Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Richard Dehmel , Jean Jaurès , Théo van Rysselberghe , Pierre Bonnard , Maurice Denis and Edvard Munch .
Van de Velde lived in the Hohe Pappeln house with his wife and five children until 1917. No longer suffered as a hostile foreigner during the First World War, van de Velde left Weimar in 1917. In 1919 the house came into the possession of the banker's widow Anna Reichenheim, who sold the house to Heinrich Bichmann and his wife in 1925 . In 1938 the Evangelical Church of Thuringia acquired it and made it available to the German Christians under Siegfried Leffler . After Leffler's flight in 1945, the house often changed hands in the following years and was often remodeled. In 1985 the Hohe Pappeln building was listed as a historical monument , and from 1990 to 1994 the building was restored to its original state. When the villa was up for sale at the end of the 1990s, a private owner was won with the help of the Friends of the House of Hohe Pappeln and the Freundeskreis Weimar 1999 eV , who is currently renting the artist's house, which is important in terms of art and culture, to the Weimar Classic Foundation.
You can visit the representative living area of van de Velde on the first floor with salon, dining room, study and living hall as well as the idyllic garden. Van de Velde designed the exhibited furniture in 1904 for the von Münchhausen family , who lived temporarily in Weimar.
gallery
South entrance
Northwest side
Southeast side
Staircase
Salon with a view of the dining room
literature
- Theres Sophie Rohde, Christian Tesch (ed.): Van-de-Velde walk. In the footsteps of Henry van de Velden at the Bauhaus University Weimar . Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-86068-478-8 , p. 48f.
- Antje Neumann: Haus Hohe Pappeln , published on behalf of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, 2007
- Antje Neumann and Eckhard Baier: Henry van de Velde's house "Hohe Pappeln". History of an architectural monument. Published by the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation, Altenburg 2004
Web links
- The Hohe Pappeln house on the website of the Weimar Classic Foundation
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 35 ″ N , 11 ° 20 ′ 31.9 ″ E