In 1931, roughly eighty photographs were created of the Villa Tugendhat, depicting the villa in its entirety – full shots, medium shots, and close-ups of the exterior, plus similarly composed images of the house’s interiors. The author of this photographic documentation was the Brno-based photographer Rudolf Sandalo Jr. (1899–1980). The images were possibly commissioned directly by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was apparently also responsible for the photograph’s distribution and oversaw their publication in the print media.

Sandalo’s work is one of the largest and most valuable sets of photographic documentation in Brno City Museum’s Department of the History ofArchitecture, and is greatly valued both at home and abroad. In 2012, the Villa Tugendhat collection was further expanded by a generous gift
from a private collector, who donated 42 unique photographs of this iconic building to the museum.A selection from these originals is now on exhibition at Villa Tugendhat open from June 6 to August 28 2018, and a set of other originals of Sandalo’s photographs of Czechoslovak modern architecture is currently on display at Brno City Museum’s exhibition spaces at Špilberk Castle at the exibition Rudolf Sandalo (1899–1980) Visions of modernity from May 31 to August 28.

Exhibition organiser: Jindřich Chatrný, Dagmar Černoušková (Brno City Museum), Lucie Valdhansová (Villa Tugendhat)

Exhibition on the Tugendhat Villa's technical floor is open from June 6 to August 26 2018 within the villa's opening hours without prior reservation. Admission: 50 CZK

Photos were published in the book Villa Tugendhat. Rudolf Sandalo, 1931
http://www.tugendhat.eu/vyzkum-a-publikace/rudolf-sandalo-villa-tugendhat-1931.html