Darmstädter Künstlerkolonie

In 1899 the Darmstädter Künstlerkolonie was founded in Mathildenhöhe in the vicinity of Darmstadt, a city known as the center of Jugendstil. Artists from different backgrounds united at the initiative of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig von Hesse-Darmstadt to revive art genres from an architectural perspective. Architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics and silverware were designed in the Jugendstil style and later in a more modern, rationalist style. The last exhibition of this group of artists took place in 1914. In the 1960s, however, a new artists' colony was established in Darmstadt, for which seven studios and living spaces were established.