Kaulbach-Villa (Munich)
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 51.1 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 58.8 ″ E
The Kaulbach Villa in Munich was built as a representative home of the painter Friedrich August von Kaulbach in the neo-renaissance style. The building designed by Gabriel von Seidl at Kaulbachstraße 15 in the Maxvorstadt district is listed as a monument in the Bavarian Monument List and is now the seat of the Historical College .
architecture
Architect Gabriel Seidl based his design for Kaulbach on the Renaissance and the model of a Roman villa suburbana and built the building from 1887 to 1889. He planned the building around an unusually large studio on the first floor. It has 132 square meters, extends over two floors and originally had large, blackout windows to the north and east and offered optimal lighting conditions for von Kaulbach's painting.
The street facade is symmetrical with a slightly projected middle risalit with a segmented gable and a retracted portal. This is flanked by two Doric columns. A loggia with a large terrace and open staircase leads to the spacious garden with 4200 square meters . Inside, elaborate woodwork with coffered ceilings and carved portals were characteristic. The floors of some representative rooms are decorated with mosaics.
In 1900 Kaulbach had the side wings raised.
History of construction and use
After being appointed to the Academy of Fine Arts, Friedrich August von Kaulbach had a representative residential and studio building built in the Schönfeld suburb between Ludwigstrasse and the English Garden . He had acquired the property at the then Oberen Gartenstrasse 4 from the royal master of ceremonies, Karl Graf von Moy . During the construction phase, the street was renamed in honor of Wilhelm von Kaulbach , who died in 1874 - Friedrich August's great-uncle.
After Kaulbach's death in 1920, his widow lived mainly in the family's summer residence in Ohlstadt , also known as the Kaulbach Villa . The widow Kaulbach sold the Munich building in 1931 to the student corps Bavaria Munich , which used it as a liaison house. The studio was converted into a ballroom by the architect Fritz Gablonsky . In January 1937, the student union sold the villa to the Free State of Bavaria. Since May 1937, she was the official residence of the Bavarian Minister of the Interior and Upper Bavarian NSDAP - Gauleiter Adolf Wagner , who until his death in 1944 lived there.
After the war ended, the US military government confiscated the building. The American soldier broadcaster American Forces Network ( AFN Munich ) moved into the house and used it as a studio center until November 1984.
After the Americans left, the building was chosen as the headquarters of the Historisches Kolleg, which was to have its own rooms for the first time. For this purpose, the villa was completely renovated by Otto Meitinger and the original condition of the facades was restored at great expense. The preserved parts of the interior have been exposed and restored. The studio room was converted into a library and conference room.
In November 1988 the building was opened as a historical college. It has a usable area of around 760 square meters.
literature
- Fritz Gablonsky : Building history of the Kaulbachhaus in Munich. Munich 1940.
- Horst Fuhrmann (ed.): The Kaulbach Villa as the house of the historical college. Speeches and scientific contributions at the opening. Munich 1989.
- Cornelia Batisweiler: The garden of the Kaulbachvilla. The story of a Munich public garden 1813–1985. Munich 1985.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Heydenreuter: Financial control in Bavaria under the swastika 1933-1945, Munich, 2012, p. 79 f. and fn. 216 ( https://www.orh.bayern.de/images/files/ORH/Geschichte/20-08-26_Finanzkontrolle_in_Bayern_unterm_Hakenkreuz_mit_Umschlagtitel_-_berichtigt.pdf - accessed on August 26, 2020)