House Ebstein

Gellhorn designed a modern house on a 2000 square metre corner property for the Jewish banker, Franz Ebstein. The single storey structure with its wide projecting hipped roof and lightly curved garden façade – mirroring the old grove of trees – only has a second floor on top of the entrance. Yet, other parts of the building have differing heights which Gellhorn intended to reflect the different function of the rooms inside. This was underlined by the structure of the façade: whereas the entire building has a bright stucco the representative rooms have a yellow ceramic lining to them.
The rooms inside were lavishly designed with murals by Max Dungert. The garden-scape was the work of Gustav Allinger, who designed a modern home garden.
The building and its garden are now listed and have been intricately redeveloped in the last years. An upper flour that had been added later was removed and the murals were uncovered.