Luckhardt Villa

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House on the Rupenhorn
Large, open interiors and window openings with a terrace facing the garden and on the roof provide a view of the pine forest surrounding the building.

Large, open interiors and window openings with a terrace facing the garden and on the roof provide a view of the pine forest surrounding the building.

Data
place Berlin-Westend
architect Hans Luckhardt , Wassili Luckhardt & Alfons Anker
Client Richard Kluge
Architectural style New Objectivity
Construction year 1929

The Luckhardt villa - also partially described as Villa Kluge - in highway 161 / Am Rupenhorn 25 in Berlin district Westend the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in 1929 (during the period of Early Modern ) by the brothers Hans Luckhardt and Vasily Luckhardt with her partner Alfons Anker built in the style of New Objectivity .

building

"[With] the same dedication [as in the Schorlemmer Allee experimental settlement] they [Hans and Wassili Luckhardt] built the most beautiful villas - like the two on the Rupenhorn," wrote Manfred Sack in September 1990 in ZEIT on the occasion of one Exhibition about the Luckhardt brothers. The building ensemble in 1932, photographed by Willy Pragher .

The excellent than straight up, cubic steel skeleton - infilled with pumice concrete and plates and plastered on both sides - from the Philipp Holzmann AG executed, three-story house with white, encaustic treated plaster facade in wood-wool panels and expanded metal is an example of so-called white architecture. A roof terrace extends over the roof area with a flying eaves , pergola and a view of Teufelsberg , Stößensee and Heerstrasse. Well-proportioned areas and openings - including some sliding, horizontal ribbon windows - characterize the facade. The sweeping, sweeping terrace with a short glass roof, embedded in a gentle hillside location, forms a smooth transition from the light-flooded living room to the garden area of ​​the villa planted with wild grasses, designed by Berthold Körting , a garden architect and friend of Karl Foerster from the Bornimer district , and has been a listed building since 1997 . In the basement there is a kitchen, boiler room, garage and cellar, above that the living area consisting of a large room with terrace access. The bedrooms and bathrooms are upstairs.

"The residential group of the three luxurious single-family houses on the Rupenhorn in Berlin represents the highlight in the work of the Luckhardt brothers", Udo Kultermann concluded in 1959 about the "wrongly forgotten examples of the new building approach in Germany." View over the cantilevered terrace towards the Stoessenseebrücke (left) and Heerstrasse (1932).

Interior design parallels can be found in Erich Mendelsohn's design for the De La Warr Pavilion , which opened in 1935 : Mendelsohn, who built his private villa around 450 meters away from the Luckhardt Villa in 1928 and, like the Luckhardt brothers, was a member of the architects' association Der Ring , integrated it On the first floor of the De La Warr building as part of the library there is a similar desk construction that encloses two pillars and is supported by them. The Luckhardt Villa is also reminiscent of Le Corbusier's design for the Maison Citrohan from 1927 in the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart .

“Other modern architects […] let themselves be influenced by his [Le Corbusier's] ideas and up until the 1930s they built mainly private houses in direct succession to Corbusier's building concepts. The […] completed houses I and II in the Berlin colony “Am Rupenhorn” are a significant example of this, ”says art historian Steffen Krämer .

history

The villa is part of the Am Rupenhorn colony, which was originally planned with three single-family houses, but only two buildings were realized . The building owner and client was the Berlin factory director Richard Kluge, who only lived in the house for six months before he went bankrupt and had the building foreclosed in 1932 because he was about to emigrate to London. The single-family house fell to Commerzbank , was rebuilt in 1934 and divided into two 4-room apartments. In 1939 the state acquired the land. The aim was to demolish and use the area for the planned Nazi university town on Teufelsberg as part of the world capital Germania . The outbreak of World War II prevented these plans.

“These houses once meant a revolution; Architects from all over the world have made pilgrimages to them. ” Julius Posener in Die ZEIT in March 1963, considering that the buildings were not in their original state at the time. The building similar to the neighboring house at number 24 as part of the originally planned three buildings Kolonie am Rupenhorn .

Later, now in federal ownership, the building fell into disrepair and numerous renovations - such as closing the glass areas on the ground floor and installing old Berlin windows - were carried out. In 1975 the building was added to the list of monuments . After the architect couple Christa Kliemke and Robert Wischer had campaigned for the rescue of the badly dilapidated property, the villa was rented by the couple from 1993, later bought and together with the Germans in 1997–99, 2002–04 and 2010–11 Stiftung Denkmalschutz (DSD) true to the original - including red linoleum floors and nickel-plated banisters - restored. The library was also restored in the central room on the main floor based on the historical model. The Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), the DSD and the Berlin State Monuments Office provided financial support for the couple's restoration measures. The rededication of the country house at Rupenhorn No. 25 took place in March 2005 in the presence of the former Federal Building Minister Dr. Klaus Töpfer . The restoration work was awarded the Federal Prize for Crafts in Monument Preservation in 2017 and the Ferdinand von Quast Medal in 2000. Furniture from the Bauhaus era - by Wassili Luckhardt, Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Mies van der Rohe , among others - gives an impression of the original living character of the functionally structured interior of the Luckhardt Villa.

The villa is open to visitors for guided tours and serves as an event location and conference venue.

“The house designed by architects Luckhardt and Anker may be a little too cool to live in. It's a stunner to visit, ”said Susanne Kippenberger in 2007. The rear of the villa, which is slightly south-westerly, faces the wooded area in the direction of the British War Cemetery with a staircase illuminated by glass blocks (right).

literature

  • Markus Sebastian Braun (Ed.): Berlin - The Architecture Guide . Econ Ullstein List publishing group, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-88679-355-9 , p. 126.
  • Luckhardt and Anker: On the new way of living. Architects BDA Luckhardt and Anker Berlin Dahlem. Bauwelt- Verlag, Berlin 1930.

Web links

Commons : Luckhardt-Villa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 29.5 ″  N , 13 ° 13 ′ 6 ″  E

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