Villa des Arts (Paris)

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Villa des Arts
Building opposite the courtyard entrance
Building on Rue Hégésippe-Moreau

The Villa des Arts ( Villa of the Arts ) is an ensemble of artists' studios in the 18th arrondissement in Paris was built, the end of the 19th century. The entrance is at 15 rue Hégésippe-Moreau. The nearest metro stations are La Fourche on line 13 and Place de Clichy on line 2 . The apartments and studios, grouped around several courtyards with gardens, were added to the list of architectural monuments in France in 1994 as Monument historique .

history

entrance

As early as the 18th century, artists were given permission to settle on a plot of land separated from the Montmartre cemetery . When the district of the so-called Grandes Carrières , the large gypsum quarries at the foot of Montmartre , was newly laid out and built on from 1850 , the owners of the property at the time, Desmichel and Guéret, decided to build new studios and apartments on the site of the old artist's houses. Between 1888 and 1890, under the direction of the architect Henri Cambon, one of the most important ensembles of artist studios of the 19th century, the buildings of which have been preserved to this day. Famous artists such as Eugène Carrière , Paul Cézanne , Auguste Renoir , Paul Signac , Louis Marcoussis , Francis Picabia , Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , Jean and Raoul Dufy have lived and worked in the studios . Visiting came Pablo Picasso , Salvador Dalí , Paul Éluard , André Breton , Joan Miro , Gertrude Stein u. a. In the last few years before the renovation, the Villa des Arts housed Nicolas Schöffer (1912–1992), the father of cybernetic art, whose studio can be visited as part of the guided tours offered.

The Villa des Arts also served as a location for films. Federico Fellini used the Villa des Arts for scenes from the film The Clowns ( I clowns , 1970), Jacques Deray shot the film Killers Don't Introduce themselves here ( Trois hommes à abattre , 1980) with Alain Delon . The films Quartett ( Quartet , 1981) by James Ivory with Isabelle Adjani and The Art of Being in Love ( Escalier C , 1984) by Jean-Charles Tacchella are also set in the Villa des Arts.

In 2007 the city of Paris acquired the studios to save them from deterioration. The real estate administration of the city of Paris ( Régie Immobilière de la Ville de Paris ) had the buildings renovated and set up 47 artist studios and 36 social housing. In 2012 the work was completed. The association La Ville A des Arts organizes tours of the villa, artists can offer exhibitions and workshops in the rooms . Four apartments are made available to foreign artists who can apply.

architecture

A gate with a wrought iron grille leads to one of the inner courtyards, around which various buildings belonging to the Villa des Arts are grouped. To save costs, materials from buildings from the 1889 World's Fair were reused in the construction. The magnificent staircase of the three-story building in this courtyard behind the entrance gate also comes from a world exhibition pavilion. The buildings facing Rue Ganneron and the Montmartre cemetery are equipped with stepped, east-facing windows and offer the best possible incidence of light.

  • Stairwell

  • Stairwell

  • Stairwell

  • Stairwell

literature

  • Jean Colson, Marie-Christine Lauroa (ed.): Dictionnaire des Monuments de Paris . Éditions Hervas, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84334-001-2 , p. 56.
  • Rodolphe Trouilleux: Paris secret et insolite . Parigrams, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84096-269-1 , p. 166.

Web links

Commons : Villa des Arts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Villa des Arts in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ La Ville A des Arts Association La Ville A des Arts (French, accessed December 3, 2018)

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '15.9 "  N , 2 ° 19' 37.9"  E