Berlin is known for its many parks and gardens. Of those, one of our favorites has to be the listed sculpture park at Haus am Waldsee. Now open for the summer season, the Zehlendorf garden has hosted numerous international artists including Susanne Rottenbacher, Michael Sailstorfer and Barkow Leibinger. The south-western district first developed as a residential area in 1900 before acclaimed architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Bruno Taut built dozens of villas for well-heeled city dwellers around Waldsee lake in the 1930s. It was during the in-between phase that Max Werner’s shoreside “Haus Knobloch” was built, in 1922. It’s name now? Haus am Waldsee. Today the house and its surrounding one-hectare sculpture park have been carefully restored under the direction of landscape architect Georg v. Gayl. Two new sculptures, “Orso” and “Lupo” by the artist Peter Wächtler, also currently reside on the site – a beautiful demonstration of how art and greenery can coexist happily.
Text: Milena Kalojanov / Photos: Arundhati Shenoy
Haus am Waldsee Sculpture Park, Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin–Zehlendorf; map
Tue–Sun, 11–18h
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