House van de Velde (Hohe Pappeln)
The Haus Hohe Pappeln was the private residence of the Belgian architect and designer Henry van de Velde (1863-1957), who came to Weimar in 1902 as the artistic counsellor to Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst. Van de Velde had the house built in 1907/08 according to his own plans, and lived there with his wife Maria […]
House Goethe’s Gartenhaus (summer house)
The former vineyard cottage in the Park on the Ilm, probably built around the end of the 16th century, was the first home acquired by Johann Wolfgang Goethe in Weimar in 1776, a few months after his arrival in Weimar, together with the surrounding garden. The purchase was financed by Duke Carl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. […]
Weimar Staatskapelle (SKW)
The Staatskapelle Weimar, founded in 1491, is one of the oldest, most illustrious orchestras in the world and is closely associated to some of the world’s best known musicians and works. In 1756, Duchess Anna Amalia made the orchestra the primary musical institution of ‘Classical Weimar’. Thanks to the influence of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, […]
Bach in Weimar
Confusion often arises around the nomenclature of Johan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)‘s employers and their royal relatives at Weimar. This is not surprising since Bach had two periods of employment in Weimar, each time under a different employer, and in addition, there are three royal personages involved all bearing the name of Johann-Ernst. We begin with Duke […]
Goethe and Schiller memorial
The Goethe-Schiller-Denkmal at Theaterplatz is the most famous memorial in Weimar. It was made by Ernst Rietschel between 1852 and 1857 and is dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) and Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), the most important poets of German classical literature. It may not be apparent at first glance what connects the […]
House Liszt
Liszt lived in Weimar from 1849 until 1859. Liszt lived in Weimar from 1869 until 1886 in this house. The Liszt-Haus at Marienstrasse shows the life of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) in his former summer residence. The last Weimar residence of the composer. This is where the visitor can see not only an invitingly furnished at of the […]
House am Horn
The Haus am Horn was built for the Weimar Bauhaus’s exhibition of July through September 1923. It was designed by Georg Muche, a painter and a teacher at the Bauhaus. Other Bauhaus instructors, such as Adolf Meyer and Walter Gropius, assisted with the technical aspects of the house’s design. Gropius stated that the goal of […]
School of Arts and Crafts
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