Gaudi House Museum

The Casa- Museu Gaudí ( Gaudí House Museum ) is a museum in the Park Guell in Barcelona. In the house lived Antoni Gaudí from 1906 to the end of 1925 On September 28, 1963, the house was opened as a museum.; be exhibited there alongside furniture designed by the architect objects.

History

After a stay in England of the Industrial Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi Catalan returned late 19th century back to Barcelona. On the grounds of the estate Can Muntaner de Dalt, which he had acquired in 1899, he wanted to build a city garden for the Catalan bourgeoisie. Güell i Bacigalupi commissioned Antoni Gaudí with the project, which provided for the establishment of sixty houses with gardens and all necessary equipment. In 1914, the construction was interrupted and never completed the project.

Of the planned sixty houses only two were built: the house of the doctor Trias i Domènech and the present museum. The latter was built as a model home and should serve as an advertisement to potential buyers. This model house was designed by architect Francesc Berenguer i Mestres and built by contractors Josep Pardo i Casanova. Antoni Gaudí signed the draft itself. The house was built in 1903-1905 and offered for sale, but you could not find a buyer for it.

In 1906 it was purchased by Antoni Gaudí and pulled one with his father and his niece. The father died the same year and the niece in 1912. Gaudí lived alone on there until he retired in late 1925 in the workshop of the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família. A few months later Gaudí died.

The architect left the house the Board of the Sagrada Família, which sold it to the couple Chiappo Arietti. In 1960 the club Gaudí friends bought the house back from the descendants of the couple Chiappo Arietti, to use it as a museum. Three years later it was inaugurated as the Casa- Museu Gaudí. Josep Maria Garrut was director of the museum from its opening year until his death in 2008. In 1992 the house was handed over to the Bauvorstand of Expiatori Temple de la Sagrada Família.

The building

The building has four floors. On the ground and first floor, there is publicly available collection. To the basement of the old not allowed. On the second floor is the library Enric Casa Nelles, which can be visited by appointment.

The exhibition includes living spaces such as the bedroom, the office or the entrance hall, as well as some personal items of Gaudí, who remember the time when he lived in this house. The exhibition also includes an important collection of Gaudí -designed furniture for buildings such as the Casa Batllo, Casa Calvet, Casa Milà, Casa Vicens and the crypt of the Colonia Güell. Together with the designed by the architect forged elements, which can be seen in the garden, these are among the most precious objects in the collection. In addition, other furniture, sculptures, paintings, drawings and other items designed by staff in the rooms of the museum are to be found.

Bibliography

  • Bassegoda, Joan and Garrut, Josep M.: Guia de Gaudí, Ediciones literarias y Científicas, Barcelona 1969, pp. 19-29
  • Bassegoda, Joan: El gran Gaudí. Editorial AUSA, Sabadell, 1989, ISBN 84-86329-44-2, pp. 387-390 and 501-503
  • Garrut, Josep M.: La Casa- Museu Gaudí i amb Proleg dues parts. Antoni Gaudí ( 1852-1926 ). Fundació Caixa de Pensions, 1984, ISBN 84-505-0683-2
  • Garrut, Josep M. Casa - Museu Gaudí ( 1852-1926 ). Andrés Morón, Barcelona, ​​ISBN 84-931058-1-3, ISBN 84-931058-2-1 and ISBN 84-931058 -3- X
  • Gueilburt, Luís: Gaudí i el Registre de la Propietat. Institute Gaudí de la construcció, Barcelona 2003, pp. 149-157, ISBN 84-688-1124-6,
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