Darmstadt Artists' Colony
| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
|---|---|
Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt | |
| Location | Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany |
| Criteria | Cultural: |
| Reference | 1614 |
| Inscription | 2021 (44th Session) |
| Area | 7.35 ha (18.2 acres) |
| Buffer zone | 76.54 ha (189.1 acres) |
| Website | www.mathildenhoehe-darmstadt.de |
| Coordinates | 49°52′32″N 8°39′59″E / 49.875433345°N 8.66650397°E |
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 in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, near to the Rosenhöhe Park. The artists were largely financed by patrons and worked together with other members of the group who ideally had concordant artistic tastes.
UNESCO recognized the Mathildenhöhe artists' colony in Darmstadt as a World Heritage Site in 2021, because of its testimony to early modern architecture and landscape design, and its influence in the reform movements of the early 20th century.