Bank Austria Salon

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The Bank Austria Salon in the Old Town Hall in Vienna's 1st district, Innere Stadt, is an event location and communication platform for social and cultural exchange. The Bank Austria recorded the ongoing discussions Salon as the main sponsor and provides the Barocksaal young cultural initiatives.

history

The building is one of the oldest preserved structures in the center of Vienna. In 1316 Duke Friedrich the Fair donated the buildings to the city. Until 1885 the meetings of the municipal council took place in the baroque hall of the house Wipplingerstraße 6-8.

The first floor, the bel étage , includes the baroque or great knight's hall with its adjoining rooms, which are also dated around 1700.

The stucco ceiling, which is almost certainly attributed to Alberto Camesina , a Graubünden plasterer, stucco sculptor and marbler around 1713, shows two ceiling paintings by Hans Georg Greiner, which are framed by heraldic medallions. One of the frescoes depicts Solomon's judgment, the other an allegory of justice. These are connected by the imperial eagle in the center of the ceiling.

Between 1851 and 1853 the hall and the adjoining rooms were rebuilt under Mayor Johann Kaspar von Seiller according to the plans of the Viennese architect Ferdinand Fellner the Elder. Ä. remodeled. A stucco ceiling, caryatids and cladding of the walls with stucco marble were created.

On October 20, 1905, the Vienna City Council made the formal resolution to found a central savings bank under the care of the city. On January 2, 1907, the institute was ceremoniously opened in the baroque hall of the Old Town Hall, in which the financial institute was located for many years. The baroque hall served as a ticket office for several decades.

As part of the sale of the »Z« to the successor institution, Bank Austria, the rights of use of the rooms in the old town hall, as set out in the founding contract of the Zentralsparkasse, went to the buyer. Bank Austria, which is now majority owned by Unicredit , has one of the most beautiful baroque halls in Vienna.

Since the hall is popular with musicians due to its excellent acoustics, there were ideas to turn the space into a cultural »hotspot«. This was implemented in 2014 in the form of the Bank Austria Salon. With special attention to the tradition of the Viennese salon culture, as it existed until 1938.

The salon

What is generally understood today as salon and salon culture emerged around 200 years ago. The origins, which reach into the 17th and 18th centuries, were understood as a counterpart to the courtly communication culture. It was above all the French salon culture like the salons in Tsarist Russia. The aim was to create cultural centers outside the courtyards, palaces, in mostly upper-class houses that represented the Second Society . Thus, for the first time, a counterpoint to court life was set. Salon culture reached Vienna via Berlin during the Enlightenment. The first known salon was created in the Greiner house. Charlotte von Greiner, née Hieronymus, came into the care of Empress Maria Theresa as an orphan . Became her reader, private secretary and confidante. Her husband, Hofrat Franz Sales Ritter von Greiner, quickly rose to become a high official of the Maritime-Josephine-Leopoldine epoch.

Greiner's daughter, the writer Karoline Pichler , later opened her own salon. At the time of the Congress of Vienna, Pichler's salon was set by that of Fanny von Arnstein . For general political reasons at the time, some of the Biedermeier salons suddenly placed greater emphasis on a musical component. In this time of the omnipresent Metternich secret police, music was far less risky than the word. But despite the police-state means of the Metternich system, the majority of the illustrious salon society did not allow their free, open speech to be restricted. The salon created “a free space for material or ideological interests. The sole motivation of the guests is to respect, encourage and educate one another ”.

In the course of burgeoning liberalism, numerous famous salons emerged in the second half of the 19th century, which then flourished in their heyday around 1900. In Vienna between the wars, Berta Zuckerkandl , Alma Mahler-Werfel and Eugenie Schwarzwald regularly invited people to an informal, interdisciplinary exchange of ideas in their salons. Barbara Staudinger describes the downfall of this institution as follows: “Berta Zukerkandl, the most famous fin de siècle salonière, emigrated after Austria's 'annexation' to Nazi Germany. And so, with the rise of National Socialism, salon culture also died in Austria ”. It was the expulsion and murder of the country's intellectual elite by the National Socialist rule at the end of the 1930s and the outbreak of World War II that ended the life of the salon in Vienna.

Since after 1945 it was the coffee house where the young intellectuals and artists met, for example in the Café Hawelka or in clubs like the Art Club , it was not until the 1990s that the first unsuccessful attempts at salon culture were revived to animate.

Bank Austria Salon

Although the salon experienced a renaissance in Berlin in the 1990s, attempts to revive it in Vienna failed. It was not until the concept developed by Wolfgang Lamprecht on behalf of Willibald Cernko that the salon tradition was established and continued.

A center for chamber music was created with concerts from soloists to small chamber ensembles such as CD presentations. Regular guests include and include the quartet of Daniel Auner , Paul Badura-Skoda , Rémy Ballot, Boris Bloch , the Concilium Musicum , Johanna Doderer , Flaka Goranci, the Haydn Quartet , Christine Jones , Zoryana and Olena Kushpler, Elisabeth Leonskaja , Ingrid Marsoner , Simon Reitmaier , Yury Revich , Martin Rummel or Jasminka Stancul. In 2015 the salon was equipped with a Fazioli concert grand, which is why there were more classical repertoires. The salon is intended to be a meeting place for society, science and art. There are collaborations, for example, with Günther Friesinger's "paraflows Festival for Digital Art and Cultures", the Association for Aesthetics and Applied Cultural Theory, the Vienna Jazz Festival or the Vienna Book Festival . As part of the regular salon talks on European values ​​of culture and sustainability, Robert Menasse , Robert Pfaller , Agnes Heller and Peter Simonischek , among others, discussed . Other highlights as guests were the author Marlene Streeruwitz , the head of the happiness center of the Kingdom of Bhutan , Ha Vinh Tho and the nationally and internationally celebrated artist Erwin Wurm .

Web links

  • Bank Austria Salon in the old town hall [1]
  • Blog Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Label Bank Austria Salon in the Old Town Hall [2]
  • Bank Austria Salon on youtube [3]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Old Town Hall " Old Town Hall (Vienna) " In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter special issue 27.1972. Vienna: Association for the History of the City of Vienna 1972
  2. ^ Old Town Hall in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  3. ^ History of the City Hall, Vienna District Museums, I., District Museum Inner City
  4. ^ Schulz, Joachim Christoph Friedrich: Journey of a Liefländers from Riga to Warsaw, through South Prussia, via Breslau, Dresden, Karlsbad, Bayreuth, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Munich, Salzburg, Linz, Vienna and Klagenfurt, to Botzen in Tyrol. 6, issue. Berlin, 1796
  5. ↑ Helga Peham: Die Salonièren und die Salons in Wien, 200 years of history of a special institution, styria premium, ISBN 978-3-222-13402-9 , p. 10 ff.
  6. ↑ Barbara Staudinger: Salon Austria, the great heads of Austrian-Jewish culture, Metroverlag, ISBN 978-3-99300-120-9 , p. 97 ff.
  7. ^ Wilhelmy, Petra: The Berlin Salon in the 18th Century (1780-1914). Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, vol. 73. Berlin, 1989, 25f. Tscheitschonig, Alexandra: “At the same time the art rendezvous of strangers”: The literary and musical salon Fanny von Arnstein. Vienna (Univ. Dipl. Arb.), 1996, 12f.
  8. ↑ Barbara Staudinger: Salon Austria, the great heads of Austrian-Jewish culture, Metroverlag, ISBN 978-3-99300-120-9 , p. 97
  9. ↑ TEAMlive, employee magazine of Bank Austria, 04/2015, p. 38f