Behind the scenes at Bauer's villa - shooting for the Advocacy Campaign

Behind the scenes at Bauer's villa in Libodřice

This summer we are busy as bees. These days you can find us shooting for a video spot at Bauer's villa in Libodřice near Kolín (CZ) for the upcoming Advocacy Campaign within the CultHeRit project.

We bring to you a few glimpses from the shooting which took our Lenka Stolárová from Prague.

About the Villa:

The Josef Gočár Museum and Cubist Design Gallery in Bauer's Villa in Libodřice near Kolín offers visitors a glimpse into the atmosphere of the early 20th century. The villa has been restored to its original form.

Between 1912 and 1914, the villa was built by the landowner Adolf Bauer and now bears his name – Bauer Villa. The architectural design was created by the iconic architect Josef Gočár, who used the then new Cubist style for the house, which is very unusual in a rural setting. After the death of its owner, Adolf Bauer, in 1929, the villa passed to his heirs, and ten years later it was confiscated as Jewish property by the Protectorate authorities. In 1941, the villa came under German economic administration, which installed Liberec factory owner and Reich citizen Augustin Juppe there. He lived in the villa until 1945, when he was arrested after the end of the war. As all members of the Bauer family perished in the Holocaust in Auschwitz in 1943-44, the villa became the property of the municipality in 1945. The ground floor was used as the headquarters of the local national committee and, after 1948, as the apartment of the local secretary of the Communist Party, the municipal library and a hairdresser's. The upper floor was occupied by a family forcibly evicted from Kolín. As the municipality did not have the financial resources to renovate the monument, which was rapidly deteriorating without proper maintenance, it was sold to the Czech Cubism Foundation in 2002. The foundation embarked on a demanding renovation and restored the cultural monument to its original form. The villa's garden, where rare trees have been preserved, was also restored, and the entire building was surrounded by a newly built fence based on Gočár's original design.

In 2008, the renovated villa was opened to the public, but after ten years of operation, it had to be closed in 2018 for technical reasons. In 2021, the entire collection was purchased by the state for the Museum of Decorative Arts, but not the villa itself, which remained the property of the Czech Cubism Foundation. The Museum of Decorative Arts is preparing to reopen the monument to the public on 1 July 2025.

Source: https://www.kudyznudy.cz/aktivity/muzeum-josefa-gocara-v-bauerove-vile-v-libodricich?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=MGNS_PMAX_Aktuality_SS&utm_id=21501936923&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21495605424&gbraid=0AAAAADAmiptPny8s-uvgHUZxeB2J2SAXG&gclid=Cj0KCQjwjo7DBhCrARIsACWauSnExPe8T3KNJOdlvlVT8X5vRYZevlqrmVFD5KGOqRoyO3DvUOYQhq8aAq8uEALw_wcB