Villa Wagner I.

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Otto Wagner's first villa in Hütteldorf
Front view of the Otto Wagner Villa

The Villa Wagner I (also: Otto-Wagner-Villa , Ben-Tieber-Villa and ( Ernst- ) Fuchs-Villa ) is a villa building built from 1886 to 1888 based on plans by Otto Wagner at Hüttelbergstraße 26 in Hütteldorf , since 1890 / 1892 part of the 13th, since 1938 part of the 14th district of Vienna , Penzing . The villa is currently owned by the heirs of the painter Ernst Fuchs and houses the Ernst Fuchs private museum .

history

Otto Wagner had the building he designed constructed from 1886 to 1888 as a summer residence on the edge of the Vienna Woods . The Wagner family lived in the house all year round from 1895; In the same year the palm house in the southern wing was converted into a salon. When Wagner's children got older and moved out of their parents' house, he sold the villa in 1911 to the vaudeville entrepreneur and director of the Apollo Theater , Ben Tieber , who lived in it until his death in 1925. Right next door, Wagner had a smaller villa built for himself in 1912/1913, the Villa Wagner II . The first villa was Aryanized in 1938 by Reichsstatthalter Baldur von Schirach and used as an office for the leisure activities of the Hitler Youth. After the war, the villa became an object of speculation and was even threatened with demolition from 1963.

In 1972 the painter Ernst Fuchs bought the property for 14 million schillings , had the villa renovated and adapted and set up his studio here. Fuchs sat here as model Placido Domingo , Oskar Werner and Falco . Since 1988, the now hundred-year-old villa has housed the Ernst Fuchs private museum , which is directed by Cornelia Mensdorff-Pouilly. Fuchs died on November 9, 2015.

layout

The villa, designed as a late historical country house, is dominated by a central wing with Ionic columns that can be reached via a driveway and an outside staircase . The side wings have facades glazed on the street side with Doric column elements . The northern side wing has Tiffany glazing by Adolf Böhm . On the upper floor there is a Roman bath with mosaics by Koloman Moser . At the top of the flight of steps is a metal female statue designed by Ernst Fuchs.

In the immediate vicinity is the stump of the 1000-year-old oak , the oldest oak in Vienna.

Fountain system in the park

Fountain house Nymphaeum Omega with Moses fountain

From 1992 to 1996 Ernst Fuchs created the Nymphäum Omega fountain house at the foot of the park between the first and second Otto Wagner villa in the Byzantine style. In front is the Moses fountain, which is covered with brightly colored shimmering Tiffany glass mosaic.

Picture gallery

  • The Adolf Böhm Hall

  • The Roman bath

  • Room in the south wing

literature

  • Otto Wagner: Villa of Mr. W. in Hütteldorf near Vienna. Sheet 35–39, dated 1888. In: Otto Wagner: Some sketches Projecte und ausf. Buildings. Volume I, 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1905 ("63 sheet heliogravures"). First print ibid., 1891. ( Digitized in AMS Historica - AlmaDL. Digital library of the University of Bologna .)
  • Dehio Handbook Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District. Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1996.

Web links

Commons : Villa Wagner I  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Markus: How Ernst Fuchs saved the Otto Wagner Villa in Vienna. In: Daily newspaper Kurier , Vienna, November 11, 2015, p. 16
  2. ^ Ernst Fuchs Museum: [ Park with fountain house ]; accessed on April 24, 2018

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 35 ″  N , 16 ° 15 ′ 21 ″  E