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 Secession by dvideira
This building is considered to be Europe's first example of 20th-century architecture.
The Secession Movement was created by group of dissatisfied Viennese artists, headed by Gustav Klimt. They broke with the conservative artists associated with the Academy of Fine Arts to promote the radically new kind of art known as Jugendstil, which was inspired by the the organic, fluid designs of Art Nouveau and the more geometric designs of the English Arts and Crafts movement. Leave a Comment
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This beautiful building designed in the Art Nouveau style by Otto Wagner in 1898 is situated just a short walk from my hotel at the U-bahn stop "Kettenbrueckengasse" on Linke Wienzeile. The building is decorated with glazed tiles of green leaves and pink roses and blue flowers... and it is absolutely gorgeous - don't miss this!! It is a private apartment building so obviously not open to the public. I saw it early on a sunny Sunday morning and it was just stunning! Leave a Comment Directions: Kettenbruekengasse U-bahn (U4)
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 Ankeruuhr clock and figures by EkaterinburgDirections: About five minutes walk from StephandsomWebsite: www.vienna.info
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Very close to Karlsplatz and the Naschmarkt, on Linke Wienzeile, are two of Otto Wagner's other most famous buildings. Right next to each other at nos. 38 and 40 they were part of Wagner's plan to transform the whole route to Schonbrun into a sort of Art Nouveau Ringstrasse. Both buildings have ground floors which are in commercial use and clearly seperate from the residential floors over head. No 38 is more low-key with gold palm leaves and medallions but no 40 is ( to me anyhow), much more striking. The tiles it is clad with are hard-wearing majolica - hence the name, Majolika House. On these reddish/pink tiles Wagner designed an elaborate flower/tree/vine motif and it is this that gives the house its freshness and charm.
Please click on photo 3 to see no. 38 Linke Wienzeile - you may prefer its gold embossed palm leaves to the red flowers of no. 40. It's hard to make a choice as they are both stylistically amazing.
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 secession by dvideira
This was one of the first places I went, in order to see the Beethoven Frieze which is considered one of Gustav Klimt's key works and one of the high points of Viennese Art Nouveau.
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 Characters on the Clock! by Jmill42
The clock was built in 1911 by Franz von Matsch.
The list of characters includes:
* MARCUS AURELIUS, the Roman Emperor, who stayed in Vienna and in 180 AD he died here,
* CHARLEMAGNE, the King of the Franks and "creator" of the Holy Roman Empire,
* Duke LEOPOLD VI, the Babenberg called the Glorious and his Consort Theodora,
* WALTHER v. d. VOGELWEIDE, the minnesinger at the Court of the Babenberg's,
* Duke RUDOLPH IV, of Hapsburg called the Founder (St. Stephen's, University),
* Hans PUCHSBAUM, the Master builder of St. Stephen's,
* Emperor MAXIMILIAN I, called the Last Knight, a Renaissance Emperor
* Mayor LIEBENBERG, mayor during the second Turkish Siege of Vienna 1683,
* Rüdiger v. STARHEMBERG (defender of Vienna during the Turkish Siege),
* Prince EUGENE of Savoy, the most famous commander of the army of Austria 17th/18th cent.,
* Maria THERESA and her husband Emperor FRANCIS I, of Lorrain,
* Joseph HAYDN, the famous composer instead of Emperor Francis Joseph I.
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At the same time as the old Imperial regime was singing its swan song with buildings like the Neue Rathaus that harked back to the mediaeval past, a new movement was about to be born. All across Europe this new style was developing, taking on different forms in different countries, but always characterised by the use of forms taken from nature and for its rejection of the historical inspiration that informed so much of 19th century art and architecture. In Vienna the new style was to become known as Jugendstil - Youth Style - and there are wonderful examples all over the city, both in complete buildings and small details.
The most extraordinary example must surely be the Secession Building with its fantastic golden dome of leaves sitting on top of a stark white cube of a building. Built in 1898 it caused a huge controversy, and continued to do so as the artists who exhibited their works there broke all the bounds of convention.
Jugendstil found its way into all aspects of design in the city in the years before WWI. Even street furniture was influenced. The Anker Clock on the Hoher Markt is a favourite example with locals and tourists alike, but two of my favourites are the mosaic nymphs on the Engel Apotheke shop on Bognergasse, the sole survivors of the many similar works that once adorned many of the city's shopfronts and a another building with flower-decked maidens - though I can't remember on which street I saw them, Leave a Comment
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The Anker Clock (built between 1911 - 1917) was created by the painter and sculptor Franz von Matsch and is a typical Art Nouveau design.
It forms a bridge between the two parts of the Anker Insurance Company's building. In the course of 12 hours, twelve historical figures or pairs of figures move across the bridge. Every day at noon, all of the figures parade, each accompanied by music from its era. Leave a Comment Directions: Underground : U1, U3 (Stephansplatz), U4 (Schwedenplatz)
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Of all the Art Nouveau buildings in Vienna this is probably the most unusual. Approaching, it looks more like a mosque or temple with ts huge golden dome. This striking feature is an intricately wrought globe of gilded bronze laurel leaves, known somewhat irreverently as the 'golden cabbage' by the locals. The building was completed in 1898 and was the headquarters of the artists in the Secessionist movement. Outside, in a plethora of decorative features, Klimt's door with writhing snake handles is probably the most beautiful.
Inside there is an upstairs hall which houses temporary exhibitions and downstairs in the basement is the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt. This wonderful piece of art is on permanent display but sadly I can make no observations on it as I didn't get inside to check it out. To my absolute fury I forgot that it was there and only remebered on the plane coming home. Perhaps I have here an excuse to visit Vienna for the third time !
Open Tuesday - Sunday 10-18hr, Thursday, 10-20hr. Phone: +43 587 53 07Directions: Between Karlsplatz and the NaschmarketWebsite: www.secession.at
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