Richard-Dehmel-Haus, Single-family home in Blankenese, Hamburg, Germany
The Richard-Dehmel-Haus stands as a distinctive angular building with steep roofing and elevated terraces, featuring ochre-colored plaster walls instead of traditional Hamburg brick facades.
Built in 1912 by architect Walther Baedeker and gifted to poet Richard Dehmel for his 50th birthday, the house served as the writer's residence until his death in 1920.
Richard Dehmel designed furniture as early as 1901 and lightly modernised it for this house; Peter Behrens and Henry van de Velde served as inspirations, not authors of the fittings. Emil Orlik designed the wallpapers. The house and its surviving furnishings are protected as a monument.
The house is at Richard-Dehmel-Straße 1 in Blankenese, Hamburg. Visits are possible only for visitors who register in advance; there is no open access. The Dehmelhaus Stiftung, founded in 2013, oversees the property, and the Hermann Reemtsma Stiftung financed the full restoration carried out from 2014 to 2016.
Walther Baedeker built the house at his own expense to stop the poet from leaving Blankenese; friends and admirers then bought it for Dehmel's 50th birthday in 1913. The south side carries a girl sculpture by the Viennese sculptor Richard Luksch.
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