Prellerhaus (studio building, Weimar)

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Prellerhaus in Weimar, Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 6.

Prellerhaus (formerly also: Preller'sches Ateliergebäude ) is the name of a building on the site of today's Bauhaus University Weimar , which was used as a studio house in 1870/71 by the landscape painter Louis Preller (1822-1901), a distant nephew of Friedrich Preller Elderly , was built and named after him. Today it has the address Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6.

history

This first major studio purpose building in Weimar came at a time when much more studio spaces for which was founded in 1860 Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School were needed. The property was made available to Preller in 1870 as a building site with the obligation to construct a building with studios according to given plans. Preller himself was only allowed to privately use the studio in the tower and the associated rooms.

The building was completed in 1871 and rented by the art school on October 1, 1871. However, the rental income was insufficient to cover the financing costs. It was not until 1881 that Preller was able to sell the house to Grand Duke Karl Alexander . After the death of the Grand Duke in 1901, the art school and all buildings became state property.

Henry van de Velde opened the arts and crafts seminar in the Prellerhaus in 1902 and prepared the two lower floors for it. Until 1906, the office for the provision of information, advice and corrections and free workshops for manufacturers and craftsmen were located there. The Prellerhaus thus became an important point of contact for companies active in the arts and crafts in the Grand Duchy and a well-known cultural institution.

From 1919, during the Bauhaus period in Weimar, students were also allowed to spend the night in the Prellerhaus . This concept - living and working in the studio house - was probably so successful that Walter Gropius also built a Prellerhaus in the new Bauhaus complex in Dessau .

In 2007/08 the house was completely reconstructed after more than ten years of vacancy - interestingly again in a public-private partnership : Because funding from the Free State of Thuringia was not possible, a contract was signed between the university and the construction company Züblin AG . This included the pre-financing by the Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) and the payment of the costs by the university over a period of 20 years.

Today the building is used by the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Bauhaus University Weimar.

Known users

literature

  • Klaus Aschenbach: The last art barn . For the renovation of the Prellerhaus. In: der bogen - Journal of the Bauhaus University Weimar . No. 2 , 2008, p. 50 ( online ).
  • Thomas Bar: The long way to reconstruction . To finance the Prellerhaus construction project. In: der bogen - Journal of the Bauhaus University Weimar . No. 2 , 2008, p. 51 ( online ).
  • Volker Wahl: The historic “Prellerhaus” studio building in Weimar . In: Weimar-Jena: The big city . tape 3 , no. 4 . Vopelius, Jena 2010, p. 254-262 .
  • Where the art originated . The studio buildings of the Weimar art school. Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95773-159-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Preller: The family table of the painter of the Weimar Odyssey, Friedrich Preller . In: The Thuringian clan. Messages from the Thuringian Society for Kinship Studies . 3rd year, 1937, p. 65-74 .
  2. ^ Henry van de Velde, Prellerhaus studio building, p. 207: PDF. Retrieved April 21, 2020 .
  3. ^ Philipp Oswalt et al .: Bauhaus travel book . Weimar Dessau Berlin. Ed .: Bauhaus Cooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar gGmbH. Random House, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7913-8244-9 , pp. 37 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 26.3 "  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 44.4"  E