Darmstadt Artists Colony
The Darmstadt Artists’ Colony refers both to a group of Jugendstil artists as well as to the buildings in Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt in which these artists lived and worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The artists were largely financed by patrons and worked together with other members of the group who ideally had concordant artistic tastes. UNESCO recognized the Mathildenhöhe artists' colony in Darmstadt as a List of World Heritage Sites in Germany, World Heritage Site in 2021, because of its testimony to early modern architecture and landscape design, and its influence in the reform movements of the early 20th century. Founding The artists’ colony was founded in 1899 by Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, Ernest Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse. His motto was: "" ("My Hessian land shall flourish and in it, the art"), and he expected the combination of art and trade to provide economic impulses for his land. The artists’ goal was to be the development of modern ...
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