Villa Wesendonck
The Villa Wesendonck is a stately villa in Zurich ( Enge quarter ) built between 1853 and 1857 for the industrialist Otto Wesendonck and his wife Mathilde Wesendonck . The building in the style of the Italian Renaissance is considered to be one of the most mature works of the architect Leonhard Zeugheer . A landscape garden laid out by Leopold Karl Theodor Fröbel extends south of the house , today's Rieterpark .
Since 1952, the building has housed the Rietberg Museum , a museum for art from Asia, Africa, America and Oceania as well as Swiss masks. An underground extension to the museum was opened in mid-February 2007. The project called "Baldachine von Smaragd" (alluding to a poem by Mathilde Wesendonck, which was set to music by Richard Wagner as the third of the Wesendonck songs ) comes from the architectural community of Alfred Grazioli and Adolf Krischanitz (Berlin / Vienna).
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Entrance area (left the coach house, right the emerald)
Exhibition room in the Villa Wesendonck
Exhibition room in the Villa Wesendonck
Museum café in the Villa Wesendonck
The entrance to the new underground building
New and old museum in a row
literature
- Building culture in Zurich: Enge, Wollishofen, Leimbach (= buildings worthy of protection and good architecture of recent years [without volume number]). Edited by the Building Department of the City of Zurich, Office for Urban Development. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2006, p. 52.
- Christine Barraud Wiener, Regula Crottet, Karl Grunder, Verena Rothenbühler: The City of Zurich V. The «Ausgemeinden» of the City of Zurich until 1860 (= The Art Monuments of the Canton of Zurich. New Edition Volume V). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History . GSK, Bern 2012, pp. 173–178.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '32.3 " N , 8 ° 31' 48.9" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eighty-two thousand four hundred and sixty-six / 245919