Vienna row houses by Otto Wagner
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The Vienna Line Houses by Otto Wagner are an ensemble of three residential buildings that were built between 1898 and 1899. You are on Linke Wienzeile in the area of the Naschmarkt in Vienna's 6th district of Mariahilf .
The houses designed by Otto Wagner are an important example of Viennese Art Nouveau architecture at the turn of the century. The Vienna River had just been regulated and Wagner had the vision of transforming the Wienzeile between Karlsplatz and Schönbrunn into a splendid boulevard. As with most of the later projects, Wagner himself acted as a client, so that as an architect he could follow his own artistic ideas.
In Wagner's work, the houses are seen as a decisive break with historicism , which had already been announced in his houses on Rennweg . Instead of the historical ornaments, everything is kept flat.
Linke Wienzeile 40 (Majolikahaus)
The so-called Majolikahaus in Linken Wienzeile 40 was built in 1898. The facade is clad with majolica tiles from Wienerberger , which are decorated with floral motifs. These tiles are weatherproof, easy to care for and washable - for Otto Wagner, hygiene was an important part of modernity. The design for the colorful floral ornamentation that extends across the entire width of the facade was made by his student Alois Ludwig . The staircase with an elaborately designed elevator grille is also worth seeing.
Majolikahaus in Linken Wienzeile 40
Roof cornice and tiles
entrance
Detail of the balcony
Detail of the tiles
The majolica house around 1899
Entrance area and elevator
Left Wienzeile 38
The house at Linken Wienzeile 38, also built in 1898, is known for its spectacular corner solution, which is designed in the form of a quarter circle. The house is plastered white and covered with gold ornaments by Koloman Moser . The sculpture of the callers enthroned on the roof comes from Othmar Schimkowitz , who a few years later created the angel figures for Wagner's church at Steinhof . Also in this house there is a lift system decorated with Art Nouveau ornaments. It is the birthplace of the Viennese painter and surrealist Wolfgang Paalen , whose father Gustav Robert Paalen and his family moved into an apartment on the first floor in 1903.
The house has been privately owned by the Kohn family since 1914, who then acquired it from the Concordia press club and who still take care of its maintenance today. The bank branch, which has existed in this house since 1916, was originally run by the Wiener Bankverein and is now part of the Bank Austria branch network after several mergers . Otto Wagner originally planned a coffee house for the lower floors. During the Nazi regime, the building was “Aryanized” ; at that time there was a vegetarian dining room on the ground floor . In 1947 the house was returned to the Kohns, who had returned from exile in South America. The facade was last restored between 2000 and 2003, the Federal Monuments Office contributed 10% of the costs.
Left Wienzeile 38
Decoration by Koloman Moser
Foliage
Floral ornaments and the caller from Othmar Schimkowitz
Side entrance by Jože Plečnik
Köstlergasse 3
The house at Köstlergasse 3, which adjoins the corner house at Wienzeile 38, was the last of the three houses to be built in 1899. It is the simplest of this ensemble of houses and was temporarily inhabited by Wagner himself. This is where his now lost glass bathtub was located.
Web links
- Modern residential building, Wienzeile. In: Wiener Bauindustrie-Zeitung / Österreichische Bauzeitung , year 1901, p. 125 (online at ANNO ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ derstandard.at - Art Nouveau building with coin value
- ↑ Austrian Mint - Otto Wagner's "Linke Wienzeile No. 38" minted in gold ( memento of the original from December 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ neuewelt.at - A house in gold
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 51 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 33 ″ E