Art Nouveau in Darmstadt
Art Nouveau in Darmstadt
Not only on the Mathildenhöhe you will find "Art Nouveau". Darmstadt's central station also displays numerous Art Nouveau elements, as does the Art Nouveau Bath - which already bears the term in its name. In the Hessische Landesmuseum Darmstadt, a whole department is dedicated to "Art Nouveau".
Hofgut Dippelshof
The restaurant-hotel Hofgut Dippelshof is a jewel of Art Nouveau, located in a beautiful Art Nouveau-park surrounded by woods and meadows. A location with special facilities, equipped with a multi-award winning kitchen.
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Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
The Institute Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt combines - as a three-panel house of the arts - the Exhibition Hall and the Wedding Towel, the Artists' Colony Museum as well as the municipal art collection Darmstadt with works…
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Art Nouveau Bath
The "Darmstadt City Bath", built between 1907 and 1909, offered separate swimming pools for men and women as well as showers and bath tubs for people with no bathroom.
Following extensive renovation, the complex with…
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Small Glückert House
Olbrich had actually designed the house in 1901 for the sculptor Rudolf Bosselt, one of the first seven artists of the Artists‘ Colony, who was however unable to finance its completion. The furniture maker Julius…
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Alexandraweg 25
64287 Darmstadt
Lily Basin
The fountain in front of the Russian Chapel was built for the fourth exhibition of the Darmstadt Artists‘ Colony in 1914. It was designed by Albin Mueller, following the death of Joseph Maria Olbrich, leader of the…
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Olbrichweg
64287 Darmstadt
Mathildenhöhe
In 1899, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig invited seven young Art Nouveau artists to the Mathildenhöhe – the birth of the Darmstadt Kuenstlerkolonie or Colony of Artists, which existed until 1914. In four large exhibitions, the…
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Darmstadt Artists' Colony Museum
The Ernst Ludwig-House was designed as a studio building by Joseph Maria Olbrich. Since 1990, the Museum Kuenstlerkolonie exhibits here the work of all 23 artists who worked on the Mathildenhoehe between 1899 and 1914.…
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Upper Hessian House
The "Hessian State Exhibition of Fine and Applied Arts“ took place on the Mathildenhoehe in 1908. Olbrich designed the “Oberhessisches Haus“ for the occasion and it is still in good condition today. The little pavilion…
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Olbrichweg 15
64287 Darmstadt
Plane Tree Grove
On the occasion of the exhibition of the Artists’s Colony in 1914, the Platanenhain, a grove of plane trees planted in the 1830’s, was decorated by the sculptor Bernhard Hoetger with a row of sculptures and reliefs,…
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Olbrichweg
64287 Darmstadt
Swan Temple
The Swan Temple with its 8 double pillars and dark glazed ceramic tiles was designed by Albin Mueller for the exhibition of the Artists‘ Colony in 1914 as a ceramic garden pavillion. A special feature is the acoustic: if…
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Olbrichweg
64287 Darmstadt
Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
With the Mathildenhöhe App you go on a journey through time on Mathildenhöhe. Historical views are superimposed with current images and illustrate how the Mathildenhöhe developed during and after the Artists' Colony.
Online shop of Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
