Geymüllerschlössel

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The Geymüllerschlössel

The Geymüllerschlössel is a small castle (in Viennese : Schlössel or Schlössl , more rarely Schlösschen ) in the western 18th Viennese district of Währing in the cadastral community of Pötzleinsdorf . It is located north of the Pötzleinsdorfer Schlosspark .

history

The Geymüllerschlössel is named after the builder Johann Jakob Geymüller (1760-1834), brother of the landlord and owner of the Pötzleinsdorfer castle Johann Heinrich Geymüller (1754-1824). The "pleasure building", built in 1808 by an unknown architect, shows a mixture of Gothic and Oriental style elements, in keeping with the fashion of the times. The property later passed into different hands, including that of Johann Heinrich von Falkner-Geymüller, who squandered his fortune and, according to one (contested) view , is said to have been the model for Ferdinand Raimund's “spendthrift” (hence the popular parlance “spendthrift -Villa").

Since 1888 the building has been owned by the textile industrialist Isidor Mautner (hence also the “Mautner Villa”), who had to pledge it to the Austrian National Bank in 1929 due to the poor economic situation . The mortgage was transferred to the Deutsche Reichsbank in 1938 , which in 1944 also formally "Aryanized" private Jewish property. In 1948 the Austrian National Bank sold the building to the Republic of Austria, whereby the director of the state printing company Franz Sobek advanced the purchase price in foreign currency and received a lifelong right of residence in return. Sobek also housed his famous watch collection there. Today the Schlössel is a branch of the MAK Museum of Applied Arts , which gives an insight into the living culture of the Empire and Biedermeier periods and the extensive clock collection of Dr. Franz Sobek shows. The original exterior painting of the villa was painted over with an ahistorical standard white in the 1990s.

Exhibitions

A series of exhibitions in the Geymüllerschlössel focused on contemporary design interventions and cross-time comparisons. The London designer Michael Anastassiades, for example, referred to Sobek's collection of Old Viennese clocks with Time & Again , while The Stranger Within by Studio Formafantasma dealt with the fascination of the “exotic”. Robert Stadler's contribution Back in 5 min dealt with the flexibility of the Biedermeier interior. In 2016, the artist duo Clegg & Guttmann used Biedermeier reanimated Biedermeier art as the starting point for scenic tableaus made of movables, objects, instruments and materials.

literature

Web links

Commons : Geymüllerschlössel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 37.4 "  N , 16 ° 18 ′ 26.2"  E