Villa Waldberta, Historic villa in Feldafing, Germany

Villa Waldberta is a turreted villa in the Historicist style, built in 1901/02 as Felsenheim for the banker and writer Bernhard Wilhelm Schuler, part of the Höhenberg villa colony above Lake Starnberg. The house and its 22,000 m² park, laid out under the publisher Albertus Wilhelm Sijthoff, are listed monuments; today the villa holds furnished apartments and studios for artists in residence.

The building was constructed in 1902 for a banker and received its name from a later owner, a Dutch publisher. Following different periods of use, it became an international artist residence under Munich's management in the 1980s.

Since 1982 the villa has been an artist residence; since 1991 it has invited international guests, and since 2005 it has covered all art forms, including culture-related sciences. Five fellowships of 1,200 euros a month are awarded for stays of up to three months, and applicants must live outside Bavaria. Artists cannot apply themselves: Munich's city council and the Waldberta board select projects tied to Munich.

The location has limited access since it primarily serves selected artists and specific groups. If interested in visiting, check for scheduled exhibitions or public events that occasionally take place.

During the 1972 Summer Olympics, Chancellor Willy Brandt lived in the villa and received guests there, among them French President Georges Pompidou and Henry Kissinger. The house had passed to the city of Munich in 1965 through the Bertha Koempel Foundation.