Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz

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The Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz is a building in the Loschwitz district of Dresden at Pillnitzer Landstrasse 59.

history

The artist house was built on the site of the former Unger vineyard in the then still independent Dresden villa suburb of Loschwitz and was completed in spring 1898 after a year of construction. It was conceived, designed and executed by the Dresden architect Martin Pietzsch (1866–1961). Since then, sixteen studios and work rooms as well as twelve apartments have offered visual artists of various orientations - painters, sculptors, graphic artists - living and working opportunities. After the first successful studio buildings, Pietzsch ventured to the object, which was judged controversially after its completion.

With the Künstlerhaus, an artistic focus was created on the Loschwitz Elbe slope . At the turn of the century there was a shortage of affordable studios in Dresden. Martin Pietzsch had also asked the influential art historian Woldemar von Seidlitz , speaking councilor for the general management of the Dresden art collections, for support. This supported the project. The Künstlerhaus was badly damaged by fire in 1904. During the reconstruction (1904–1906) the building was created in its present form.

In 1900 the so-called “Small Artists House”, also designed by Pietzsch, was completed next to the artist house, in which the builder Pietzsch worked and lived with his family. Here the basic structure of an old vineyard house was rebuilt, which resulted in a partly quite original interior design. The large studio apartment is also still inhabited by artists.

After the Künstlerhaus survived the imperial era, the Weimar Republic and the Second World War almost unscathed, it remained in family ownership until 1972 during the GDR era . The builder's grandson, Wolfram Steude , did not receive a renovation loan. This was followed by renovation by the city of Dresden, in which the basic substance was secured. After the artist's house was returned to the family in 1992, it was extensively renovated. Since then, the residential and studio artist's house has been run purely privately according to its original purpose by the heirs of the builder: to this day, the house is consistently inhabited by a mixture of freelance and teaching visual artists, mainly painters and a few sculptors.

residents of the house

In the artist house lived and worked u. a. the following artists: Georg Müller-Breslau (1856–1911), Friedrich Offermann (1859–1913), Georg Schwenk (1863–1936) from 1898 to 1936, Anton Josef Pepino (1863–1921) from 1900 to 1921, Max Pietschmann ( 1865–1952), Peter Pöppelmann (1866–1947), Sascha Schneider (1870–1927) from 1914 to 1927, Otto Pilz (1876–1934), Otto Petrenz (1878–1953), Elsa Munscheid (1881–1956) from 1914 until 1933, Josef Hegenbarth (1884–1962), Rudolf Otto (1887–1962), Hermann Glöckner (1889–1987) from 1945 to 1987, Hans Jüchser (1894–1977) from 1950 to 1977, Herbert Volwahsen (1906–1988) from 1935 to 1953, Werner Hofmann (1907–1983) from 1936 to 1983, Helmut Schmidt-Kirstein (1909–1985) from 1955 to 1985, Egon Pukall (1934–1989) from 1961 to 1989, Peter Makolies (* 1936) from 1982 to 1998, Veit Hofmann (* 1944) since 1985, Sándor Dóró (* 1950) since 1985, Henri Deparade (* 1951) since 2007, Kerstin Franke-Gneuß (* 1959) since 1995, Thomas Reichstein (* 1960).

architecture

Studio window on the northwest facade

The architecture of the Künstlerhaus is idiosyncratic. Elements reminiscent of Italian buildings have echoes of Art Nouveau and Secession style ; Forms of the strict industrial construction that began around 1900 are also integrated. The monumental building is particularly characterized by the overhanging flat roof and the high studio windows. The sculptors Otto Pilz and Eduard Jungbluth were involved in the design, especially in the interior. The idea of ​​an artist community is due to connecting passages and doors inside that have been changed or locked several times. However, a living and working community in the narrower sense did not come about.

literature

  • Sieglinde Richter-Nickel (Ed.): 100 Years of the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz 1898–1998. Sandsteinverlag, Dresden 1998, ISBN 3-930382-19-9 .
  • Sigrid Walther: 100 Years Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz, The Sculptors. Sandsteinverlag, Dresden 1998, ISBN 3-930382-20-2 .
  • Harald Kunde (Ed.): 100 Years of the Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz, The Present. Sandsteinverlag, Dresden 1998, ISBN 3-930382-23-7 .
  • Video film "House of Quiet Tones", Balance Film GbR, 1998.
  • 110 years Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz 1898–2008. Quma-Verlag, Güstrow 2008, ISBN 978-3-9810889-1-5 .
  • Journal Vernissage "Dresden" 6/2010, ISSN  1434-5986 .

Web links

Commons : Künstlerhaus Dresden-Loschwitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Pietzsch: The artist house in Dresden-Loschwitz, in Anne Claußnitzer / Gernot Klatte: The Dresden architect Martin Pietzsch , Sandstein-Verlag, Dresden 2016, pp. 134–187
  2. ↑ Refuge for art and artists - 120 years Künstlerhaus Loschwitz, exhibition in the House of Architects in Dresden (May – June 2018)

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 45.8 "  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 23.3"  E