House at the forest lake

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House at the forest lake with sculpture by Tony Cragg , 2019

The Haus am Waldsee in the Berlin district of Zehlendorf in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district has been an exhibition space for international contemporary art with a focus on all media of the visual arts, design, architecture and sound in Berlin since 1946. A sculpture park has been set up on the spacious grounds since 2005. The director is the art historian Katja Blomberg .

history

The house at Waldsee at Argentinische Allee 30 was built in 1922/1923 for the manufacturer Hermann Knobloch as a private villa based on designs by the architect Max Werner . The villa was sold as early as 1926 and then changed hands several times until the Allgemeine Film-Treuhand (AFT) of UFA acquired the property in 1942 . The villa was then used as the official residence of Karl Melzer , Secretary General of the International Film Chamber and Deputy President of the Reich Film Chamber . In 1945 a registration office of the district office for artists residing in Zehlendorf was set up in the house. The house was officially opened as an exhibition location on January 6, 1946 with an exhibition of works by Käthe Kollwitz and Ewald Vetter . In the first few years mainly artists were shown whose works were considered "degenerate" during the Nazi era . Exhibitions with renowned contemporary artists followed. With this exhibition activity, the Haus am Waldsee gained an international reputation as an exhibition venue for international contemporary art.

Until 1972, the then district of Zehlendorf received the financing. From 1973 to 1985 the institution was under budgetary law directly to the Berlin Senator for Finance. The exhibition house is now the responsibility of a non-profit sponsoring association and is supported by the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district of Berlin with an annual donation. All exhibition projects are financed from "third-party funds" raised through fundraising . The Association of Friends and Patrons of Haus am Waldsee e. V. , which had over 600 members in 2012.

  • Sculpture park with Karl Hartung figure

  • The "Waldsee",
    house on the forest lake

  • Creature of Katja Strunz's idea in the sculpture park

Exhibitions (selection)

ladder

Web links

Commons : Haus am Waldsee  - Collection of images

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Rochus Kowallek: Berlin: Haus am Waldsee worries about its meager budget. The Senator of Finance suddenly turned off the tap . In: Art . February 1986, p. 9 .
  2. ↑ Berlin Biennale organized by the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Federal Cultural Foundation. , May 29 - August 3, 2014, accessed June 3, 2015
  3. ^ Operation on the yellow heart in FAZ , January 12, 2015, p. 13
  4. ↑ Nezaket Ekici: "Everything that one owns, we also have". ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Solo exhibition June 7 - August 16, 2015, accessed June 3, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hausamwaldsee.de
  5. ↑ The loneliness of the spaceman | Monopol - magazine for art and life. Retrieved March 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Interview J Mayer H | Interview magazine . In: Interview magazine . May 31, 2016 ( interview.de [accessed March 20, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Missing: Painting by Franz Marc. In: heute-journal . March 2, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Haus am Waldsee and Kolbe Museum: “Ready to jump”. In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 22, 2019

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 31.6 ″  N , 13 ° 14 ′ 18.4 ″  E