Haus Schulenburg, Art Nouveau museum in Gera, Germany
Haus Schulenburg is an Art Nouveau house in Gera, Germany, designed by the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde and completed in 1914. Today it operates as a museum, displaying original furniture and a collection of graphic works by the same designer.
A textile manufacturer from Gera commissioned the house between 1913 and 1914 as a private home. After decades of neglect following World War II, restoration work began in the mid-1990s and continued until 2017.
The house takes its name from its first owner, a textile manufacturer from Gera who asked van de Velde to design every detail of the interior. Walking through the rooms, visitors can see how furniture, door handles, and wall surfaces were conceived as a single connected whole.
The rooms are arranged in a way that is easy to follow and can be visited at your own pace without major barriers. A café area inside the building offers a place to rest, and written materials about the graphic collection are available on-site.
During restoration, original objects were tracked down and brought back from around the world so that the house could recover its intended appearance. The graphic collection holds around 100 works and is considered one of the largest groups of van de Velde prints outside Brussels.
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