Entrance hall Villa Gans
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The villa was built for the shipbroker Ivan Gans after he had purchased the garden property from shipowner Robert Miles Sloman. Ivan Gans commissioned the renowned Hamburg architect Martin Haller to design the building. In 1883–84, a stately Neoclassical building with a magnificent view of the Outer Alster was thus constructed at Harvestehuder Weg 12. The villa, with about twenty rooms, blended harmoniously into the then-flourishing villa district. The construction costs are said to have amounted to 150,000 marks.
Two photographs of the historic interior of the Ivan Gans Villa have survived: one of the master’s study (now Room 13) and a view from the vestibule into the ballroom beyond, which has since been replaced by the Fanny Hensel Hall.
By colorizing the historical photographs in a contemporary style and superimposing them on images of the villa as it appears today, we get a sense of what the villa looked like when it was sold to the Budges in 1900.