The House of Artists on Lenbachplatz in Munich is a kind of club house of the Munich artists.
The idea for the project "art house" was created in the 19th Century in the vicinity of Munich's artistic community created pranks. The building was designed by Gabriel von Seidl and, after laying the foundation stone in 1893, inaugurated in 1900 by Prince Regent Luitpold
. Artists' parties, masked balls and banquets, arranged in part by the artists Franz von Lenbach, Friedrich August von Kaulbach and Franz von Stuck, it became the encounter between art and society.
. Artists' parties, masked balls and banquets, arranged in part by the artists Franz von Lenbach, Friedrich August von Kaulbach and Franz von Stuck, it became the encounter between art and society.
Under the Nazi Regime the House of Artists Association was disbanded. Instead a so called "fellowship of artists" set up. On 14 July 1944 the house burned down in consequence of a bomb attack. After the war the property was seized by the Americans in 1954 and returned to the Munich art-house club. After reconstruction by architect Erwin Schleich Künstlerhaus the Künstlerhaus was reopened on 1 October 1961 by Duke Albrecht of Bavaria and the Mayor Hans-Jochen Vogel. In 1998 a general renovation took place.
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