The Tugendhat House. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat. Born 1946 in Caracas/Venezuela. Studied art history and archaeology in Bern and Vienna. Doctoral Thesis on Hieronymus Bosch and the pictorial tradition, habilitation thesis on Studies of the History of Gender Relations in Art. Professor of art history at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and university lecturer at the Institute of Art History, University of Vienna, Austria. Field of research: early modern painting. Ivo Hammer. Born 1944. Trained as conservator/restorer; studied art history and archaeology in Freiburg and Vienna. Doctoral dissertation on realism in the early 15th century. Head of mural painting conservation in the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments and Sites from 1976-1997; conservation projects include: Beethoven Frieze, Gustav Klimt (1902), Lambach Romanesque murals (about 1080) and Salzburg Nonnberg (about 1150), the Hohensalzburg fortress facades (15th – 16th century). Since 1997 professor of wall painting/architectural surface conservation/restoration at the Fachhochschule (University of Applied Sciences and Arts) Hildesheim/Holzminden, Germany. Wolf Tegethoff. Born 1953. Studied art history, town planning, constituti8onal, social and economic history in Bonn and at Columbia University in New York. Doctoral thesis in 1981 on the villas and country house projects of Mies van der Rohe. Assistant professor at the Institute of Art History, University of Kiel, Germany, from 1981 to 1987. Vice Director, since 1991, Director of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich with guest lectureships at the Universities of Bonn, Haifa, Innsbruck, Munich, Regensburg and Venice. Numerous publications on the work of Mies van der Rohe including, among others, Mies van der Rohe: Te Villas and Country Houses (1984, German edn. 1981).

Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat: Preface.- Grete Tugendhat: On the Construction of the Tugendhat House.- Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat: Living in the Tugendhaut House.- Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat: Is the Tugendhat House Habitable?- Grete und Fritz Tugendhat: The Inhabitants of the Tugendhat House Give their Opinion.- Grete Tugendhat: The Architect and the Client.- Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat: Fritz Tugendhat as a photographer.- Wolf Tegethoff: A Modern Residence in Turbulent Times.- Ivo Hammer: Surface is Interface. History of the Tugendhat House until 1997, and problems of conservation.- Ivo Hammer: History of the Tugendhat House after 1997, conservation and restoration of the house’s scientifically important materiality in 2010-2012.- Nina Franziska Schneider und Wolf Tegethoff: Catalogue of the Original Furnishing of the Tugendhat House.- Colour Plates.- Bibliography.- Sources of Illustrations.- The Tugendhat Family.- The Authors.