Room 13 - Men's room Villa Gans

In 1883–84, Martin Haller designed and built a stately Neoclassical building for the shipbroker Ivan Gans, offering a magnificent view of the Outer Alster.

Two photographs of the historic interior of the Ivan Gans Villa have survived: one showing a view from the vestibule into the ballroom behind it—which is now the site of the Fanny Hensel Hall—and another of the gentlemen’s parlor. Today, it is used as a seminar room.

Here, too, the historical photographs—colorized to reflect the period and superimposed on images of the villa as it appears today—give a sense of what the villa looked like when it was sold to the Budges in 1900.