page_title: Darmstadt Artists' Colony
section_title: Peter Behrens’ House
hierarchical_section_title: Darmstadt Artists' Colony / First Exhibition 1901 / The artists’ houses / Peter Behrens’ House
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Haus Olbrich auf der Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt (Germany)
context_page_description: 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. The artists were largely financed by patrons and worked together with other members of the group who ideally had concordant artistic tastes.
context_section_description: Peter Behrens was a self-taught architect. His design for his own house and its interior represented his debut. Having one and the same architect and interior designer gave the house a particularly pronounced consistency. It was however also the single most expensive house in the exhibition, with total costs of 200,000 Mark. Behrens never lived in it, choosing instead to sell it shortly after the exhibition. It was heavily damaged in World War II, but at least the exterior has been largely restored to its original state. Some articles and pieces of furniture were apparently removed from the house at an earlier date and have thus survived.
caption: Joseph Maria Olbrich's House
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