Stoclet Palace
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UNESCO world heritage 
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| National territory: |
 Belgium
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| Type: | Culture |
| Criteria : | (i) (ii) |
| Surface: | 0.86 ha |
| Buffer zone: | 25 ha |
| Reference No .: | 1298 |
| UNESCO region : | Europe and North America |
| History of enrollment | |
| Enrollment: | 2005 (session 29) |
The Palais Stoclet is a villa built between 1905 and 1911 in the style of the Vienna Secession in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre in the Brussels-Capital Region . The architect was Josef Hoffmann ; the Stoclet frieze comes from Gustav Klimt .
The client was the wealthy entrepreneur Adolphe Stoclet (1871–1949), son of Victor Stoclet (1843–1904) and his wife Anne Kitty nee. Caspers (1842-1908). He was married to Suzanne Stevens (1874-1960). Her son Jacques (1903–1961) had four daughters with Anny Geerts (1907–2002): Catherine, Dominique, Aude and Nèle (1944–2012).
Adolphe Stoclet commissioned Hoffmann, who was initially also busy building the Purkersdorf sanatorium near Vienna, to create a total work of art together with the Wiener Werkstätte , which was responsible for the artistic design . In addition to Klimt, numerous other Viennese artists (including Carl Otto Czeschka , Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel , Emilie Schleiss-Simandl, Richard Luksch , Elena Luksch-Makowsky and Franz Metzner ) were involved in the very elaborate overall concept .
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The Stoclet Frieze by Gustav Klimt
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In this context, Gustav Klimt was commissioned with a frieze to be executed by the Leopold Forstner mosaic workshop together with specialists (the so-called Stoclet frieze in art history ) for the dining room of the palace. Klimt created the first drafts as early as 1905, but later changed his concept and drew the transfer drawings in their original size in his summer residence on Lake Attersee in the summer of 1908 (today in the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts ). In 1909 Viennese specialists began to try out the materials for the transmission. In 1911 Klimt was present when his design was transferred to the walls of the dining room of the Palais.
For the execution of the Palais Stoclet, precious materials were predominantly used, such as Norwegian turili marble for the outer walls or yellow-brown Italian paonazzo marble for the inner walls. Individual sculptures and sculptures as well as colored drawings for the music room by Fernand Khnopff come from the Belgian artist George Minne .
On October 4, 1955, the 50th anniversary of the Stoclet Palace was celebrated in a solemn act. The almost 85-year-old Josef Hoffmann took part as a guest of the new owner Jacques Stoclet.
The palais stylistically influenced the Parisian architect Robert Mallet-Stevens , a nephew of Adolphe Stoclet's wife.
Since the end of June 2009, the Stoclet Palace has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage . It is still privately owned and not open to the public.
In 2012 Tobias G. Natter published photographs of the Stoclet frieze in color for the first time and in detail on around 80 pages in the Klimt list of paintings he edited.
literature
in alphabetical order by authors / editors
- Hans Ankwicz von Kleehoven : Josef Hoffmann. The Palais Stoclet in Brussels. A trend-setting masterpiece of Austrian architecture and interior design. In: Alte und Moderne Kunst 6, 1961, issue 42, pp. 7–11 ( digitized version ).
- Gabriele Fahr-Becker: Wiener Werkstätte, 1903–1932. Taschen, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8228-3771-9 .
- Anette Freytag : The garden of the Palais Stoclet in Brussels. Josef Hoffmann's “chef d'œuvre inconnu”. In: Die Gartenkunst , 20, No. 1, 2008, pp. 1–46.
- Anette Freytag: The Stoclet Frieze: An artificial garden in the heart of the house . In: Tobias G. Natter (Ed.): Gustav Klimt. All paintings. Taschen, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8365-2794-1 , pp. 100-188.
- Friedrich Kurrent , Alice Strobl: The Palais Stoclet in Brussels by Josef Hoffmann: with the famous frieze by Gustav Klimt. Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg 1991, ISBN 3-85349-162-6 .
- Tobias G. Natter (Ed.): Gustav Klimt. All paintings. Taschen, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8365-2794-1 .
- Philippe Roberts-Jones (Ed.): Brussels Fin de Siècle Taschen, Cologne 1999 ISBN 3-8228-6935-X , p. 231ff. (Photos of various interiors: reception room, small hall, dining room, music room, dining room)
- Alice Strobl: On the history of the Stoclet frieze 1905-11. In: Gustav Klimt. The drawings 1904–1912. Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg 1984, ISBN 3-85349-8 , p. 139ff.
- Alfred Weidinger : The Stoclet house is really very beautiful. In: Gustav Klimt. Prestel, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3763-0 , pp. 118-137, 289.
- Alfred Weidinger: 100 years of Palais Stoclet - news on building history and artistic furnishings. In: Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. Modern pioneers. Prestel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7913-5148-3 , pp. 204-251.
Web links
- Entry on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
- Link to the work drawings for the Stoclet frieze on: mak.at
Cultural heritage: Flemish beguinages (1998) | Boat lifts on the Belgian Canal du Center (1998) | Grote Markt / Grand 'Place in Brussels (1998) | Belfries in Belgium and France (1999) | Old Town of Bruges (2000) | Art Nouveau buildings by Victor Horta in Brussels (2000) | Neolithic flint mines near Spiennes (2000) | Notre Dame Cathedral in Tournai (2000) | Plantin-Moretus Museum (2005) | Palais Stoclet (2009) | Significant sites of Walloon mining (2012) | The architectural work of Le Corbusier : Maison Guiette (2016)
Natural heritage: Old beech forests and primeval beech forests of the Carpathian Mountains and other regions of Europe : Sonia Forest (2017)
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '6.9 " N , 4 ° 24' 57.64" O