Villa Ostermann
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| place | Darmstadt |
| architect | Alfred Messel |
| Client | Paul Ostermann von Roth |
| Architectural style | Neo-baroque |
| Construction year | 1909/10 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '31.5 " N , 8 ° 39' 57.6" E |
The Villa Ostermann (also: Alfred Messel House ) is a building in Darmstadt . Today the building is owned by the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences . The villa currently (2015) houses the so-called Design House Darmstadt (Hessen Design e.V., Design Center Hessen and Institute for Industrial Design IfId GmbH).
Architecture and history
The Villa Ostermann was built in 1909/10 according to plans by the architect Alfred Messel . The owner of the neo-baroque palace was the director of the Grand Ducal Collections, Paul Ostermann von Roth.
The two-storey palace with a flat central projectile and a heavy mansard roof has a symmetrical floor plan and a symmetrical facade .
As with some of his Berlin buildings, Messel renounced precious materials and ornamentation.
The rather simple structure consists of masonry and a plastered facade . The strict closedness of the facade with its lines and surfaces, the few finely developed details in the framing, profiles and latticework is only softened on the garden side by two rounded balcony bay windows with room-high windows.
The Villa Ostermann is reminiscent of the country houses built by Paul Schultze-Naumburg at the same time.
The building, in its almost unchanged state of preservation with its original enclosure and gardens, is a representative example of the traditionalist conception of a spacious urban villa for the period after the turn of the century.
For architectural and historical reasons, the Villa Ostermann is a cultural monument .
Exhibitions
- 2016: Hans Gekeler . Color Affairs
literature
- Günter Fries et al .: City of Darmstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse .) Vieweg, Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 328f.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Darmstädter Echo , Tuesday, June 28, 2016, p. 12
- ↑ Overwhelmed by the power of colors in FAZ of May 11, 2016, page 40