A new publication is being released: Rudolf Sandalo: Villa Tugendhat 1931

The Museum of the City of Brno is one of the oldest museum institutions in our country that preserves a collection of architecture. An exceptional place in the collection of interwar architecture is occupied by the original planning and photographic documentation of the Tugendhat Villa.

In 2012, a generous donation from a private collector enriched the collection of plans and photographs of the Tugendhat Villa. At that time, the Department of the History of Architecture of the Museum of the City of Brno acquired forty-two unique photographs of the villa. The author of these exclusive images of the family home of Greta and Fritz Tugendhat is Rudolf Sandalo Jr., an established Brno artist and owner of Atelier de Sandalo, well-known for a number of photographs of Czechoslovak modern architecture. Although reproductions of most of Sandalo's photographs of the Tugendhat Villa have been part of the collections of the Museum of the City of Brno for more than half a century, the donated set of original positives represents a very valuable enhancement to the museum's collections.

The photographs of Rudolf de Sandalo Jr. are now considered unique documents not only of exceptional interwar architecture but also of the outstanding level of its photographic documentation in Czechoslovakia during the 1920s and 1930s. Today, Sandalo's work belongs to one of the largest and most valuable collections of photographic documentation within the architectural collection of the museum, highly valued both at home and abroad.

The publication was issued by the Tugendhat Villa Foundation in cooperation with the Museum of the City of Brno in a trilingual edition (Czech, German, English).

Chatrný, Jindřich; Černoušková, Dagmar; Valdhansová, Lucie (eds.), Rudolf Sandalo. Villa Tugendhat 1931, Brno 2017.