Museum of Art Noveau and Art Deco. House of Lis
45 minutes
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The building
The north facade, the access through Gibraltar Street, is the only sign of modernism in the city of Salamanca. The set, formed by facade of two bodies, patio and fence, is of great simplicity. The first floor and the gates are decorated according to the influences of Belgian Art Nouveau while the wooden door, in a low arch, has floral and aquatic motifs and highlighted in relief.
The south facade, which faces the river and receives light most of the day, is a spectacular combination of classicism and modernity. Above the stone wall are two galleries of iron and glass, in the center a staircase that forks towards a large open terrace.
The use of iron, building material of the time, both in the south facade and in the central courtyard, with expressive nuances provides an innovative design that exceeds the structural function. Exemplified in the drawings of the rinses of the arches of the portico, in the hardware of the viewpoints or in the fine casting columns of the Moneo workshop.
The central courtyard consists of dimmed galleries supported by casting columns. On the lower floor stands out the modernist decoration of the stuccoes of doors and friezes. On the upper floor of the gallery stands out the decoration of the hardware and the representation of the fleur-de-lis, in honor of the surname of its promoter.
Although the initial conception of the courtyard, used the building as a family home, was an open courtyard, today it remains closed with a stained glass window made by the Catalan artist Juan Villaplana according to the design of Manuel Ramos Andrade. In the window, the use of a wide range of colors to represent the sky, clouds, moon or stars prevails.
The house Lis, today, has other stained glass windows, in the galleries of the south facade, or in the skylight of the central staircase that give the building an even more attractive and authentic chromatic richness for its time. In short, the stained glass windows are today one more set of pieces of art in the Museum of Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
To reach the Museum, the house Lis has had very diverse inhabitants, it has gone through different tenants and owners until once abandoned and ruined it could be expropriated by the first democratic municipalities earmarking it for House of Culture and making the appropriate investments to recover it and endow it with the current splendor. Subsequently, with the transfer by Manuel Ramos Andrade of his art deco and Art Noveau collection to the city, the museum dedicated to these artistic styles was created in this building.
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The building
The north facade, the access through Gibraltar Street, is the only sign of modernism in the city of Salamanca. The set, formed by facade of two bodies, patio and fence, is of great simplicity. The first floor and the gates are decorated according to the influences of Belgian Art Nouveau while the wooden door, in a low arch, has floral and aquatic motifs and highlighted in relief.
The south facade, which faces the river and receives light most of the day, is a spectacular combination of classicism and modernity. Above the stone wall are two galleries of iron and glass, in the center a staircase that forks towards a large open terrace.
The use of iron, building material of the time, both in the south facade and in the central courtyard, with expressive nuances provides an innovative design that exceeds the structural function. Exemplified in the drawings of the rinses of the arches of the portico, in the hardware of the viewpoints or in the fine casting columns of the Moneo workshop.
The central courtyard consists of dimmed galleries supported by casting columns. On the lower floor stands out the modernist decoration of the stuccoes of doors and friezes. On the upper floor of the gallery stands out the decoration of the hardware and the representation of the fleur-de-lis, in honor of the surname of its promoter.
Although the initial conception of the courtyard, used the building as a family home, was an open courtyard, today it remains closed with a stained glass window made by the Catalan artist Juan Villaplana according to the design of Manuel Ramos Andrade. In the window, the use of a wide range of colors to represent the sky, clouds, moon or stars prevails.
The house Lis, today, has other stained glass windows, in the galleries of the south facade, or in the skylight of the central staircase that give the building an even more attractive and authentic chromatic richness for its time. In short, the stained glass windows are today one more set of pieces of art in the Museum of Art Nouveau and Art Deco.
To reach the Museum, the house Lis has had very diverse inhabitants, it has gone through different tenants and owners until once abandoned and ruined it could be expropriated by the first democratic municipalities earmarking it for House of Culture and making the appropriate investments to recover it and endow it with the current splendor. Subsequently, with the transfer by Manuel Ramos Andrade of his art deco and Art Noveau collection to the city, the museum dedicated to these artistic styles was created in this building.
Free visit price
- Individual - 5.00 €
- Jubilados - 3.00 €
- Desempleados - 3.00 €
- Grupos (Número mínimo: 11) - 3.00 €
- Niños (Edad máxima: 14) - 0.00 €
- Estudiantes - 3.00 €
- Jueves - 0.00 €
- Casa lis y museo automocion - 5.00 €
- Casa lis y palacio monterrey
- Venta entrada - En la Casa Lis y el Palacio de Monterrey
- Individual - 8.00 €
- Estudiantes - 6.00 €
- Jubilados - 6.00 €
Through its nineteen collections, the tour of its rooms shows the visitor the production of the European workshops of decorative arts of the Nouveau and Deco periods. Jewelry from Masriera or Faberge, iridescent glass from the Loetz, Kralik, Pallme König workshops or the Nancy school with pieces by Émile Gallé, the Daum Brothers or Paul Nicolas. Homar furniture, Majorelle, Busquets. Porcelain by Rosenthal, Royal Copenhagen, Mariano Benlliure, Gustave Guetant or Zuloaga. The collections that Casa Lis treasures show the trajectory of such important authors as Émile Gallé with its overlapping glass layers and exquisite furniture or the evolution of Rene Lalique that starting from Art Nouveau jewelry orients its creativity to the design of glass in the following decades.
It highlights the collection of French porcelain dolls from the 19th century, which has been defined by experts as the best collection exposed to the public worldwide, or the exhibition of chryselephantines by Demetre Chiparus or Ferdinand Preiss, small sculptures that combine metal for clothing and ivory for naked parts of the body such as the face or hands and that have become an icon of Art Deco.
It highlights the collection of French porcelain dolls from the 19th century, which has been defined by experts as the best collection exposed to the public worldwide, or the exhibition of chryselephantines by Demetre Chiparus or Ferdinand Preiss, small sculptures that combine metal for clothing and ivory for naked parts of the body such as the face or hands and that have become an icon of Art Deco.
The exhibition "Lis... a journey through time" is a tribute to the two great authors of the House, Don Miguel de Lis and Don Joaquín de Vargas, which shows the photographs taken by Venancio Gombau in 1908 along with various pieces from the Museum's collections not exhibited before or acquired in recent years.
Visitors can live this experience in the Museum next to the permanent exhibition and the services of the Café and the Lis Shop with a longer daylight saving time: Monday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The Museum will also open the Lis Terrace from Thursday, July 4, a space that can be enjoyed from Thursday to Saturday between 8:30 p.m. and midnight.
Also until midnight you can visit the Lis House on Saturdays of July with its night entrance, which includes the visit to the permanent and temporary exhibitions and concerts on the nights of July 6, 13, 20 and 27.
(Salamanca, July 3, 2024) The Art Nouveau and Art Deco Museum offers from today a "Journey in time" to all its visitors, an experience that will transport them to the origin of Casa Lis through its new temporary exhibition to contemplate the beauty and grandeur with which it was conceived in its moment of maximum splendor. Built between 1897 and 1905 by the architect Joaquín de Vargas y Aguirre (1857-1935) and commissioned by the Salamancan industrialist Miguel de Lis de la Puebla (1855-1909), Casa Lis was photographed by Venancio Gombau (1861-1929) around 1908. This graphic testimony illustrates the journey into the past in the exhibition "Lis... a journey through time" together with various pieces from the Museum's collections that have either never been exhibited or have been acquired in recent years. In addition, one of the pieces, the bust of Joaquín de Vargas created by Aniceto Marinas, has been donated to the exhibition by its descendant, Joaquín de Vargas de la Rúa.
Visitors can live this experience in the Museum next to the permanent exhibition and the services of the Café and the Lis Shop with a longer daylight saving time: Monday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
The Museum will also open the Lis Terrace from Thursday, July 4, a space that can be enjoyed from Thursday to Saturday between 8:30 p.m. and midnight.
Also until midnight you can visit the Lis House on Saturdays of July with its night entrance, which includes the visit to the permanent and temporary exhibitions and concerts on the nights of July 6, 13, 20 and 27.
(Salamanca, July 3, 2024) The Art Nouveau and Art Deco Museum offers from today a "Journey in time" to all its visitors, an experience that will transport them to the origin of Casa Lis through its new temporary exhibition to contemplate the beauty and grandeur with which it was conceived in its moment of maximum splendor. Built between 1897 and 1905 by the architect Joaquín de Vargas y Aguirre (1857-1935) and commissioned by the Salamancan industrialist Miguel de Lis de la Puebla (1855-1909), Casa Lis was photographed by Venancio Gombau (1861-1929) around 1908. This graphic testimony illustrates the journey into the past in the exhibition "Lis... a journey through time" together with various pieces from the Museum's collections that have either never been exhibited or have been acquired in recent years. In addition, one of the pieces, the bust of Joaquín de Vargas created by Aniceto Marinas, has been donated to the exhibition by its descendant, Joaquín de Vargas de la Rúa.