Ziller Loverdos Villa

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The Ziller-Loverdos-Villa ( Greek μέγαρο Τσίλερ-Λοβέρδου ) is a classicist villa in the center of the Greek capital Athens , which the architect Ernst Ziller who worked there had built as a residence in 1882/1883. After unfavorable businesses ruined him in 1900, he had to sell his town house to the banker and art collector Dionysios Loverdos. He created one of the largest and most important collections of post-Byzantine sacred art in Greece and kept it in the villa. After the restoration, the building will show a large part of this collection as a branch of the Byzantine and Christian Museum from February 2019 .

history

City seat of Ernst Ziller (1882–1912)

Ziller, who has been active in Athens since 1861, lived since 1875 on a country estate in Piraeus in what is now the Kastella district, which became part of the Tsiller district . Later he also preferred the summer months with his family to the country estate in Piraeus, "where you can have fresh sea air".

Thanks to the support of his friend, Baron Simon von Sina, in the amount of 20,000 drachmas, Ziller was able to have the town villa with office built at 6 Odos Mavromichali in 1882/1883. He lived in the building until 1912.

The building has an area of ​​about 1100 square meters. The archive of the classic Danish architect Theophil von Hansen , mentor and longstanding client of von dem Ziller, contains a floor plan of the first floor.

Dionysios Loverdos (from 1912)

The banker Dionysios P. Loverdos (1878–1934) from Kefalonia bought the city villa at auction for 150,000 drachmas after Ziller got into economic difficulties in 1900. Loverdos worked as an art collector and after the death of the philologist Alexios Kolyvas (1848–1915) acquired parts from his collection, which he expanded and housed in the city villa.

Neglect

In the second half of the 20th century the building became more and more neglected. In 1981 it was added to the list of listed buildings and in 1992 it was transferred to the Greek state.

Branch of the Byzantine and Christian Museum (from 2011)

In 2011 it was decided that a museum for the Loverdos collection would be opened in the Ziller-Loverdos-Villa as a branch of the Byzantine and Christian Museum . To this end, the building was restored from 2012 for 5.3 million euros and is to be opened to the public in February 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. a b The Ziller-Loverdos Mansion will open to the public in February 2019
  2. ^ Byzantine and Christian Museum: Loverdos collection
  3. ^ New museums in the block
  4. Ziller-Haus opens its gates to visitors in six months
  5. Ανοίγει για το κοινό η κατοικία του Τσίλερ στην Μαυρομιχάλη

Coordinates: 37 ° 58 '57.4 "  N , 23 ° 44' 2.6"  E

Web links

  • Loverdos collection , which will be partially exhibited in the building from 2019
  • Report with many photos about the restoration of the villa (Greek).