Villa Eschebach
The Villa Eschebach is a two-story neo-baroque building in Dresden . It is located in the Inner New Town and characterizes the corner of Albertplatz and Georgenstrasse.
The architect Hermann Thume built it from 1900 to 1903 for Carl Eschebach , a Dresden art patron and owner of the Eschebach works . The painter Ermenegildo Antonio Donadini created the wall and ceiling paintings.
The villa received, among other things, rooms for art exhibitions and on the south side a winter garden with several terraces with exotic plants. The premiere celebrations of the neighboring Albert Theater took place in the villa. Furthermore, due to the exotic plants, it was used for shooting silent films .
In 1924 the Saxon-Bohemian Steamship Company acquired the villa. During the air raids on Dresden in February 1945 the villa burned down completely, and the wall paintings were also destroyed. The building and the palm garden were poorly prepared by the steamship company and continued to be used. Volksbank acquired the building in 1993 and had it renovated from 1995 to 1997. In addition to being used as the headquarters of Volksbank Dresden-Bautzen eG , exhibitions are also held here.
In 1999, the city of Dresden awarded the architectural group Kaplan, Matzke, Schöler and Schrader from Dresden with the Erlwein Prize for their successful reconstruction .
literature
- Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Sterra et al .: Dresden and its architects. Currents and tendencies 1900–1970 . Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Husum 2011, p. 58.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 45.5 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 51.6" E