12/8/2020, Weimar – We sleep in Amalienhof, close to the Frauenplan, where Goethe had his majestic house. We are early and the hotel gives us one room for the four of us to shower away our cycling sweat. Then we walk to Haus Hohe Pappeln. As proud citizens of Gent in Belgium we want to see where Henry Van de Velde built his house when he was the director of the Kunstgewerbeschule. The sun bombards us through the foliage of the trees on the Belvederer Allee, the avenue lining Park an der Ilm. The two and a half kilometres are exhausting and the heavy air will soon change into thunder and lightning. Van de Velde bought the land for Hohe Pappeln in 1906, when the area was still undeveloped. At the time his halo was bigger in Germany than in Belgium, and he was commissioned for some important works. Van de Velde had many creative pursuits in life. In Weimar, he already had a career as a painter behind him and was primarily an architect. We put on our face masks and disinfect our hands before showing our ‘Weimar Kombikarte Moderne 2020’ card at the entrance. Black and white pictures on the wall show us how he and his family lived, a silent and forgotten world. I wonder if the seeds of the Boekentoren (1933-1938) in my Gent were already sprouting in his brain then.
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Die Wohndiele, connection between stairs and living room, Haus Hohe Pappeln, Weimar (FDC)
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