Stoclet Palace
| Stoclet Palace | |
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| Palais Stoclet (French) Stocletpaleis (Dutch) |
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.jpg) Stoclet Palace |
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| Alternative names | Stoclet house |
| General information | |
| Type | Private house |
| Architectural style | Vienna Secession |
| Location | Brussels, Belgium |
| Coordinates | 50°50′07″N 4°24′58″E / 50.83528°N 4.41611°ECoordinates: 50°50′07″N 4°24′58″E / 50.83528°N 4.41611°E |
| Construction started | 1905 |
| Completed | 1911 |
| Design and construction | |
| Client | Adolphe Stoclet |
| Architect | Josef Hoffmann |
| Other designers | Gustav Klimt, Franz Metzner, Fernand Khnopff |
| Official name: Stoclet House | |
| Type: | Cultural |
| Criteria: | i, ii |
| Designated: | 2009 (33rd session) |
| Reference #: | 1298 |
| State Party: |  Belgium |
| Region: | Europe and North America |
The Stoclet Palace (French: Palais Stoclet, Dutch: Stocletpaleis) is a private mansion built by architect Josef Hoffmann between 1905 and 1911 in Brussels, Belgium, for banker and art lover Adolphe Stoclet.[1] Considered Hoffman's masterpiece, the Stoclet's house is one of the most refined and luxurious private houses of the twentieth century.[2]
The mansion is still occupied by the Stoclet family and is not open to visitors. It was designated as a world heritage site by UNESCO in June 2009.[3]
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[edit] Description
In 1904, Adolphe Stoclet and his wife Suzanne commissioned Austrian architect and designer Joseph Hoffman and the Wiener Werkstätte (English: Viennese Workshop), formed in 1903, to design, build and fully furnish a house and garden. House and garden were conceived as one architectural whole.[4]
Stoclet Palace was constructed on Avenue de Tervueren, in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels. The building is of asymmetrical plan,[5] and the architectural features radically simplified in a way that looks forward to Modernism.[6] The exterior walls, initially white, are "patterned by the rhythm of neat windows" [5] while the corners and upper edges are defined by bronze mouldings. The tower over the main staircase rises to a bronze lantern ornamented with figures by sculptor Franz Metzner.[7] The window which lights the stairwell rises the height of the building, a feature that was to influence other architectural works.[5]
The interior of the building is decorated with marble paneling and artworks,[7] including mosaic friezes[8] by Gustav Klimt and murals Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel.[9] This integration of architects, artists, and artisans makes Stoclet Palace an example of Gesamtkunstwerk, one of the defining characteristics of Jugendstil. The sketches of Klimt's work for the dining room can be found in the permanent collection of Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Vienna.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Sharp 2002, p. 44
- ^ Watkin 2005, p. 548
- ^ "Stoclet House". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. July 4, 2009. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1298. Retrieved July 4, 2009.
- ^ Freytag 2010, p. 347
- ^ a b c Fletcher 1996, p. 1072
- ^ Honnef 2000, p. 754
- ^ a b Sembach 2002, p. 225
- ^ Freytag 2010, p. 366
- ^ The Renaissance Society, Modern Austrian Painting
[edit] References
- Various Authors. "1910-1918 pictures of the Palais Stoclet" (in German). Bildarchiv Foto Marburg. German documentation Center for Art History. http://www.bildindex.de/?+pgesamt:'stoclet'#. Retrieved 18 October 2011. Rare collection of 52 B/W pictures from the exterior, the interior and the gardens of the Stoclet Palace taken in the years following the completion of the building.
- Freytag, Anette (2010). "Josef Hoffmann’s unknown masterpiece: the garden of Stoclet House in Brussels (1905-1911)". Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 30 (4): 337–372. doi:10.1080/14601176.2010.485733. ISSN 1460-1176. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14601176.2010.485733.
- Fletcher, Banister (1996). Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture (20th ed.). London: Architectural Press. ISBN 0750622679.
- Honnef, Klaus (2000). Art of the 20th Century. Köln: Taschen. ISBN 3822859079. http://books.google.be/books?id=069rL6vA1BAC&pg=PA752.
- Sharp, Dennis (2002). Twentieth Century Architecture. Mulgrave: Images Publishing Group. ISBN 1864700858. http://books.google.be/books?id=sQUi8kRKWrMC&pg=PA44.
- Sembach, Klaus-Jurgen (2002). Art Nouveau. Köln: Taschen. p. 225. ISBN 3822820229. http://books.google.be/books?id=dgsFkaeksJEC&pg=PA232&dq=Palais+Stoclet&lr=&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a&hl=en#PPA224,M1.
- Watkin, David (2005). A History of Western Architecture. London: Laurence King Publishing. ISBN 1856694593. http://books.google.be/books?id=39T1zElEBrQC&pg=PA548.
[edit] Further reading
- Kurrent, Friedrich; Strobl, Alice (1991) (in German). Das Palais Stoclet in Brüssel. Salzburg: Verlag Galerie Welz. ISBN 3853491626.
- Noever, Peter (2006). Yearning for Beauty: the Wiener Werkstätte and the Stoclet House. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Publishers. ISBN 3775717781.
- Sekler, Eduard F. (1967). Rudolf Wittkower. ed. The Stoclet House by Joseph Hoffmann. Essays in the History of Architecture. London: Phaidon. OCLC 82161568.
- Sekler, Eduard F. (1985). Josef Hoffmann : the architectural work : monograph and catalogue of works. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691065724.
- Weidinger, Alfred (2011). "100 Years of Palais Stoclet - New Information on the Genesis of Gustav Klimt´s Construction and Interior Decoration". In Husslein-Arco, Agnes. Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. Pioneers of Modernism. Munich: Prestel. pp. 204-251. ISBN 9783791351490.
[edit] External links
Media related to Palais Stoclet at Wikimedia Commons- "Catalog of images of the Stoclet Palace". Picture Library. Royal Institute for the Study and Conservation of Belgium's Artistic Heritage. http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=fotos2&LANGUAGE=0©TEXT=©RIGHT=&OPAC_URL=&20016657=on. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
- Sketches of Klimts work at MAK.at
- (English) Article and large selection of pictures of the Stoclet Palace
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