Balmoral Castle
The Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral in Bad Ems is an institution for the promotion of visual artists. The support of the Künstlerhaus is the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture .
Funding concept
The Künstlerhaus supports visual artists of all ages from home and abroad with attendance and project grants. There is also a curatorial grant for young humanities scholars. Young Rhineland-Palatinate artists are supported with foreign scholarships for stays in New York and London. Exchange scholarships are also awarded with the partner regions of Burgundy and other partner regions in Asia.
Since it was founded in 1995, the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, whose artistic director was art historian Klaus Gallwitz until 2002 , has worked in the disciplines of painting , drawing , sculpture , installation , photography , video , new media and landscape art. The artists have their own studios and workshops for wood and metal available for their work . You will also find a photo laboratory , a video room, PC workstations and a library with around 5,500 titles, mainly on modern and contemporary art.
It is an important concern of the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral to present the scholarship holders to the public and to establish them on the art market. Her work will be shown both in Bad Ems and nationwide in Mainz and Ludwigshafen and nationwide, for example in Prague, Berlin or at Art Cologne and in 2010 at the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck . Since it opened in 1995, the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral has accommodated over 130 scholarship holders. The Förderverein Balmoral 03 eV founded the Art Prize Balmoral 03 for the first time in 2006 for artists from Eastern Europe and Russia.
History of the building
The building is a three-storey villa , in the late classical style. It stands slightly above the neighboring buildings by the Russian Orthodox Church on a slope. The main facade is oriented towards the Lahn. The building has a strictly symmetrical facade between two corner towers. The facade is completed by a crenellated wreath . An octagonal tower serves as the middle risalit .
It was built in 1867/68 as a house for a Russian landowner and named Villa Diana by him . A few years later he sold the house. In 1882 it was bought by the hotelier Georg Lang, who set up an elegant hotel for spa guests and named it Schloss Balmoral . In the 19th century, Nicolai Rimski-Korsakow , Richard Wagner and Francisco d'Andrade , among others, lived here during spa stays. From 1935 the villa was used as a tenement house. In 1983 it was placed under monument protection. In 1989 it was bought by the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis , after a thorough renovation it has been used as an artist's house since 1995.
literature
- Sabine Jung (Ed.): From “Villa Diana” to “Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral”. 1867-1995 . Bad Ems 1995, ISBN 3-98044380-9 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 46.3 " N , 7 ° 43 ′ 21.3" E