View of St. Stephen's Cathedral from the first skyscraper in Vienna
| View of St. Stephen's Cathedral from the first skyscraper in Vienna |
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| Otto Rudolf Schatz , around 1955 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 119 × 149 cm |
| Vienna
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The picture View of St. Stephen's Cathedral from Vienna's first skyscraper is the work of Otto Rudolf Schatz and is a listed building . In February 2011 it was presented by the Federal Monuments Office as Monument of the Month and is privately owned.
Herrengasse high-rise
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The Herrengasse high-rise built between 1931 and 1932 in Herrengasse 6–8, Fahnengasse 2 and Wallnerstraße 5–7 in Vienna's 1st district was the city's first high-rise. It was a prestige object of the Christian-social state government that sponsored the project.
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The 119 × 149 square centimeter picture, painted with oil on canvas, View of St. Stephen's Cathedral from Vienna's first skyscraper shows a view over the roof landscape of the first district. On the left this is bounded by the glazed structure of the Herrengasse high-rise, which was designed as a restaurant and coffee house. The section ends on the right next to the church tower of Michaelerkirche on Michaelerplatz .
The central building in the center of the depiction is St. Stephen's Cathedral , whose south tower is scaffolded in the upper area.
In the foreground you can see a section of the roof terrace of the coffee house with mostly brightly dressed people.
The sky to the right of St. Stephen's Cathedral is darkly cloudy, while the clouds are less dense to the left and the blue sky shines through. It is not clear whether the cloud cover is disappearing or the approaching bad weather is being ignored by the people on the viewing terrace.
The oil painting from around 1955 was created in the period after the Second World War, which was still influenced by the artistic currents of the First Republic.
Otto Rudolf Schatz, who had created several cityscapes of New York during his stay in the USA before the war, turned away from the New Objectivity and painted the picture with bold and bright colors in the expressionist style.