Artaria house

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Artaria house on Kohlmarkt , built by Max Fabiani in 1901/02 (contemporary watercolor)

The Artaria House is a building in the center of Vienna ( Kohlmarkt 9) that is classified as Art Nouveau . It was built between 1900 and 1902 according to plans by the architect Max Fabiani .

history

The previous house on this property was known as the English greeting , its owners are documented until 1672. Frédéric Chopin stayed in this previous house from November 1830 to July 1831 , as a memorial plaque commemorates. In 1775 the Artaria music store moved into the house, which was opened up in 1932 by the Freytag & Berndt publishing house, which ran a travel bookstore at the address until April 2014.

architecture

The new building around 1900 is considered an important example of early Viennese Art Nouveau. The building had a style-defining influence in Vienna: the marble cladding of the facade is seen as a parallel to Otto Wagner's ideas and the later very popular Bay windows appear on this building for the first time in Vienna. The house facade is set back opposite the row of houses, which is based on a regulatory plan that otherwise did not come into effect.

In Viennese vernacular the house was derisively called "Tramwayhäusl" because of its protruding canopy.

As was customary at the time, the house is divided into a business zone on the ground floor and a residential zone above (although the latter is used as a company office). There are four pillars in the business area, two of which have figure reliefs (a man with a hammer and a woman with an apple) by Alfonso Canciani . The eaves of the house have geometric ornaments facing the street; such a roof soffit is also a common element in Viennese Art Nouveau . The Artaria House is one of the first buildings in which electrical cables were laid under plaster.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien, Vienna, Kremayr & Scheriau, 1992-2004, Volume 5, p. 627.
  2. ↑ Freytag & Berndt is leaving the Kohlmarkt after 239 years. In: derStandard.at. February 26, 2014, accessed December 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Dehio Vienna I, p. 751
  4. ^ Bertha Blaschke & Luise Lipschitz, Architecture in Vienna 1850-1930, Vienna, Springer-Verlag , 2003, p. 89

Web links

Commons : Artaria House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 31 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 3.3 ″  E