Opzorro Art Collection & GalleryVILLA MASSIMO ROME
Main house of the Villa Massimo
About Villa Massimo:
Villa Massimo, short for Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo (Italian: Accademia Tedesca Roma Villa Massimo), is a German cultural institution in Rome, established in 1910 and located in the Villa Massimo.
The fellowship of the German Academy in Rome is one of the most important awards granted to distinguished artists for study abroad. The award offers residencies of one year at Villa Massimo in Rome as well as three months at Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano to artists who have excelled in Germany and abroad, including architects, composers, writers and artists.
The institution's founder was the patron and entrepreneur Eduard Arnhold, who in 1910 acquired the beautiful property of 36,000 m2, previously the suburban villa of the aristocratic Massimo family. Arnhold commissioned the main building, a large villa appropriate for official events, and ten modern studios with adjacent private residential spaces. He later donated the villa and its luxurious furnishings to the Prussian state. Today, Villa Massimo is managed by the German Federal Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Media. From 2002 to June 2019 Joachim Blüher was the director of the Academy. He was succeeded by Julia Draganović.
Villa Massimo award recipients/artist's artwork owned by the Opzorro Artcollection:
(sorted by the year)
1961
1967-1968
Alexej Iljitsch Baschlakow
(Russian artist, born 1936)
1970-1971
Dieter Haack
(German artist, painter, born 1941)
1973-1974
Hermann Waldenburg
(German painter and designer, born 1940)
1976
Margarethe Keith
(German artist, born 1942)
1988 & 1990
