House Portois & Fix

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The Portois & Fix house today
The year of construction MCM = 1900 can be found on the facade under the top floor on the far right.
The house shortly after its completion, photographed from Streichergasse opposite. As a counterpart to the year of construction on the top right of the facade, not shown here, the letters P and F can be seen at the top left.

The house of the company Portois & Fix , which was active in furniture production and interior decoration, was built in 1899–1901 by Max Fabiani in the 3rd district of Vienna , Landstrasse , at Ungargasse 59–61. It is his first building in Vienna and is considered one of his main works.

In parallel to the developments at Otto Wagner's school , of which he worked from 1894 to 1896, he created a new type of residential and commercial building. The later customary differentiation between business and residential areas through differences in material and construction was still a novelty at that time.

The two-storey base zone, which is now plastered, was originally lined with Swedish granite. Three upper floors with eleven window axes each are equipped with colored tile cladding; two shades of green are arranged in a two-dimensional pattern. Above that, set back, is an attic with a wrought-iron eaves grille.

The facade design is reminiscent of Wagner's majolica house on Linke Wienzeile built in 1898 ; however, there a flower pattern is painted on the tiles, while here the ornamentation results from the tiles themselves. The pyrogranite tiles come from the Zsolnay ceramic workshop in Fünfkirchen (Hungary). The rhythm of the facade is complemented by the regularly arranged windows and their metal cladding.

The house has not been owned by Portois & Fix for a long time.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 51.2 "  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 14.8"  E

Web links

Commons : Haus Portois & Fix  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio Vienna II-IX & 20, p. 134.
  2. ^ Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 4, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-218-00546-9 , p. 579
  3. ^ Bertha Blaschke, Luise Lipschitz: Architecture in Vienna 1850 to 1930. Springer-Verlag, Vienna 2003, p. 84/85.