Villa Hugel

The Villa Hugel is a 19th-century mansion in Bredeney, now part of Essen, Germany. It become built through the industrialist Alfred Krupp in 1870-1873 as his important residence and was the home of the Krupp circle of relatives until after World War II. More currently, the Villa Hügel has housed the offices of the Kulturstiftung Ruhr as well as an artwork gallery, the historic archive of the Krupp own family and agency, and a live performance venue. In 1864 Alfred Krupp bought the Klosterbuschhof on the heights above Breydeney and had it rebuilt as a residence for his circle of relatives.

Over the subsequent years, Krupp offered extra land across the property and in 1869 placed an advertisement in Deutsche Bauzeitung seeking out an architect who would flip his designs for a "massive villa" into a feasible blueprint. In the occasion, some of architects labored on the assignment over the subsequent years. Krupp himself constantly intervened in the work with new ideas. His consciousness become very a great deal on a modern-day and green house: layout elements had been secondary to him and he deemed maximum ornamental architectural capabilities superfluous.