Large-format architecture photos by Walter Zednicek show key buildings of Viennese ModernismĪs well as his influence on his contemporaries, pupils and subsequent generations of architects and designers. Another part of the show looks at the manufacturers behind the furniture and interiors such as Portois & Fix and Gebrüder Thonet as well as their often high-profile patrons (such as Berta Zuckerkandl). Artists, Patrons and Producers/Imperial Furniture CollectionThis exhibition presents the work of the key architects of the Wiener Moderne - Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffmann - as interior designers and furniture designers and their differing approaches to the two disciplines. Wagner not only shaped the face of the city - as a professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts he influenced several generations of students. 38 at Linke Wienzeile features on a 100 Euro gold coin as one of Europe’s prime Art Nouveau jewels. Parts of his grandiose Stadtbahn railway are still in use today. Leopold at Steinhof, the apartment buildings on the Wienzeile, the Court Pavilion in Hietzing and the Stadtbahn Pavilions on Karlsplatz. His main works are the Austrian Post Savings Bank, the Church of St. At the same time he came up with an entirely new formal language that reflected the dynamism of the city and its faith in progress. Wagner believed that functional objects required no more and no less design than was required for them to be of effective use. He broke free from the shackles of historicism, casting off any obligation to reference past styles and adorn buildings with ornamentation. Otto Wagner took the forward-looking elements of the Ringstrasse period, adopting them as the foundation for a new contemporary era in Vienna. The four protagonists of the era: the architect Otto Wagner and the artists Koloman Moser, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were among the numerous individuals that played a defining role in making the fin de siècle period such an important time for art in Vienna and Austria. , now can be viewed as an implicit expression of the premonition of future catastrophes - the cruelties of the First World War that swept the earth soon after. The creative literary, artistic, architectural and musical talent concentrated in the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire The city produced a shimmering fabric woven of contradictions - such as "Dream and Reality" and "Death and Eros" - and was home to some of the most prominent names in the history of European culture. In 1900s, Vienna had a population of two million, making it the world’s fifth largest city and the uncontested cultural capital of Central Europe. A very thin line separates it from the concept of “modernism”. Read moreĪvant-garde is how modern art critics refer the general trend of new artistic directions that arose in world art at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Among the main historical premises of this revolution in art were city development, industrialization and two world wars - processes and events that affected the whole world. It is a whole complex of changes and processes that took place in culture, art, literature, architecture in the second half of the 19th - the first half of the 20th century.
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