Villa Vauban
The Villa Vauban is a classicist villa built in 1873 in the Luxembourg city park. After a five-year renovation phase, the villa reopened on May 1, 2010 as the Luxembourg City Art Museum .
history
The villa is named after the French Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633–1707), builder of a fortress from the 17th century that originally stood on the site of the villa.
With the London Conference of 1867, the Luxembourg fortress ring was razed, in the place of which today's inner-city green belt was created according to plans by the French landscape planner Édouard François André . In 1868, the glove manufacturer Gabriel Mayer (1818–1905) from Lorraine bought the property in the area of the former fortress Vauban. In 1873 Mayer had the villa built according to plans by the Luxembourg architect Jean-François Eydt in the classicism style, but in 1874 Mayer sold the property to the Lorraine industrialist Théodore de Gargan .
The City of Luxembourg acquired the property in 1949 and converted it between 1950 and 1952 for planned use as a municipal art collection. Between 1952 and 1959 the Court of Justice of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) temporarily moved into the villa's premises before it served as an exhibition for a municipal art collection until the 1990s. From 1992 to 1995 Villa Vauban became a temporary residence for the Grand Duke. In 1995 the Villa Vauban reopened as a municipal art museum; 2004 to 2010 renovation and expansion to 2,000 m² of exhibition space by architects Diane Heirend and Philippe Schmit.
Collections
The collections of the Villa Vauban include works by Dutch painters of the 17th century ( Golden Age ), of which those by Cornelis Bega , Gerrit Dou , Jan Steen and David Teniers the Younger should be mentioned; French landscape painter of the 19th century, a. a. by Eugène Delacroix , Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier and Jules Dupré , as well as paintings, sculptures and etchings by other European artists from the 17th to 19th centuries. Most of the exhibits come from donations from three formerly private Luxembourg collections.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Sabine Dorscheid: Villa Vauban Luxembourg . Revue Technique Luxembourgeoise . 2010. Accessed July 31, 2013.
- ↑ Manon Kramp: "Villa Vauban" - Classical art in a modern shell . Luxembourg word . April 12, 2010. Accessed July 31, 2013.
- ^ Peter Popp: Perforated Metal Skin - Art Museum of the City of Luxembourg . DETAIL . September 6, 2012. Archived from the original on January 7, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
- ↑ The Collection . Villa Vauban. Archived from the original on November 17, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 31, 2013.
Web links
- Official website (de) (en) (fr)
Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 47 ″ N , 6 ° 7 ′ 21 ″ E