House of Art (Baden)

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Baden near Vienna, House of Art in autumn 2010
Villa Hudelist , later Villa Löwenstein , around 1900

The Haus der Kunst (formerly: Heim der Kunst ) is an exhibition center in Baden near Vienna .

This villa, long attributed to Joseph Kornhäusel , was built in 1818/19 by Pietro Nobile for Josef von Hudelist (Imperial and Royal Councilor of State and Conference; 1767–1818) at Kaiser-Franz-Ring 7 and its type is very indicative of Nobiles Occupation with Palladio . The original shapes have been preserved to this day.

The two-storey, cubic structure is dominated by a gabled three-axis central risalit with arched doors on the grooved ground floor and rectangular windows on balustrated parapets , grouped between pilasters , on the upper floor. The flanks above the windowless, grooved plaster-square ground floor show large pilaster-flanked window openings with inserted columns and balustrades .

After Hudelist the house became the property of Baron Villa-Secca until Moritz Löwenstein bought it. His grandson Gustav enlarged the garden with glasshouses and vineyards and made a name for himself through his work in viticulture with vine processing plants.

In 1913 the house came into particular focus: A casino company was founded and wanted to set up a casino in the Löwensteinvilla. Permitted so-called "Kursaal games" should camouflage the whole thing . The state of Lower Austria was fundamentally against it, but the company still invested around 100,000 kroner (gaming rooms on the 1st floor), and the casino opened on April 23, 1914. As the gambling camouflage was quickly uncovered, the district administration restricted operations, and it was finally closed on July 19, 1914.

After the Army High Command was transferred from Teschen to Baden ( Weilburg Castle ) in 1917, Emperor Karl I's house and garden were occasionally used for audiences.

In 1925 the villa became the property of the city through the purchase of the Löwenstein property - and for the period between the wars it was the seat of the spa administration.

As of April 1939, the Lowenstein Villa was called home the spa and housed the Municipal Tourist Service , the newly established local tourism association , the Beethoven community and the Registry of the Municipal music leader . After completion of the adaptation work in the villa, the official offices began to operate in full on May 2, 1939 .

After the Second World War , the house was occupied by members of the Red Army .

In 1956 the painting school renovated the dilapidated building as a home for art ; On June 1, 1957, its reading and event hall were opened.

Since then, the house has presented exhibitions, concerts and a wide variety of other events, for example (since 1986) courses from the Franz Schubert Institute .

For a few years, Haus der Kunst housed the luminary , which, as a cabinet of figures created by Gerlinde Bartelt-Stelzer , was unique in the world and represented important paintings and personalities from history in three dimensions, true to life, down to the smallest detail . The show, which opened on November 24, 2001, closed at the end of 2003, as the city administration needed the building to accommodate the city police. The rededication of the house in 2006 no longer provided for the figure cabinet.

literature

  • Josefine S. Skokan: The correspondence of Prince Metternich with the State Councilor Hudelist; a contribution to the life story of the Hudelist . Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1946, OBV .
  • Johann Kräftner [Ed.]: In the shadow of the Weilburg. Bathing in Biedermeier. An exhibition by the municipality of Baden in the Frauenbad from September 23, 1988 to January 31, 1989 . Grasl, Baden 1988, ISBN 3-85098-186-X .
  • Viktor Wallner : From the headquarters to the congress casino. 50 years of bathing in data and images. 1945-1995 . New Badener Blätter, Volume 6.1. Publishing house of the Society of Friends of Baden and the Municipal Collections, Baden 1993, OBV .
  • Julius Böheimer: Streets and alleys in Baden near Vienna. Lexicon of streets, alleys, squares, paths, walkways, bridges . Grasl, Baden 1997, ISBN 3-85098-236-X .
  • Viktor Wallner: Houses, people and stories - a Baden anecdotal walk . Society of Friends of Baden, Baden 2002, OBV .
  • Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger (among others): Lower Austria south of the Danube. Band 1: A to L . Dehio-Handbuch , Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs, topographic monuments inventory. Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-364-X .
  • Rudolf Maurer: Badener Zuckerln - From the work of the city archive. , No. 38 - From Villa Hudelist to Haus der Kunst, PDF , accessed on November 14, 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kräftner: Schatten der Weilburg , p. 204
  2. ^ Rainer von Reinöhl: The architectural monuments of the health resort Baden near Vienna. Deutsche Heimatbücherei, Volume 4. Association "Deutsche Heimat", Vienna 1913, p. 63 f.
  3. ↑ Vienna. (…) The 21st of October last month (…). In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 292/1818, December 21, 1818, p. 1, center left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  4. ^ Aichinger-Rosenberger: Lower Austria south of the Danube. P. 199.
  5. ^ Wallner: Häuser , p. 28
  6. ↑ a b c Wallner: Häuser , p. 29
  7. ^ Böheimer: Streets , p. 111
  8. ^ The "House of the Kurverwaltung" in Baden. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 33/1939 (LX. Year), April 26, 1939, p. 3, center left. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  9. ^ Wallner: Von der Kommandantur , p. 22.
  10. ↑ Events . In: baden.at , accessed on August 24, 2013.
  11. ↑ Chronicle . In: Deen Larsen (Red.): Schubert-institut.at , accessed on August 24, 2013.
  12. ↑ a b c Figurenkabinett Koryphäum , Leporello for the exhibition, 2001, passim
  13. ^ Weekly News Digest (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004. (…) Napoleon of Baden looking for a hostel . In: h-net.msu.edu ( H-Net Network for Museums and Museum Studies ), accessed on August 24, 2013.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Left, cropped: Parkhotel .
  2. ↑ Constituted as the International Beethoven Congregation in Baden on October 5th, 1937. - In: Julia Danielczyk: Self-staging. Marketing strategies of the successful Austrian dramatist Hermann Heinz Ortner . Blickpunkte, Volume 8. Braumüller, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7003-1403-5 , p. 77.

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 37 "  N , 16 ° 14 ′ 8.3"  E