Gutmann Palace
The Palais Gutmann located on the 1st Viennese district of Inner City , Beethovenplatz 3 and is under monument protection .
history
The “strictly historicist” palace was built in the years 1869–1871 by the architect Carl Tietz for the wealthy Jewish entrepreneurial Gutmann family in the “New Vienna Renaissance style”. After the expropriation in 1938, the palace was used by the NSDAP from 1941 and Franz Klimscha was commissioned to redesign the building. Another redesign took place in the years 1956–1961 by Carl Kronfuß . Today the palace is managed by Austria Immobilien GmbH (BAI) .
description
The five-storey palace conveys a massive impression with its high, square base zone and the little accentuated, flat, square facade. The high arched portal is powered by four ionic pilasters flanked on one scrolls beams a balcony with stone balustrade carry. Blend parapets decorate the parapets of the windows of the main floor and the overlying storey. The windows are framed by Ionic pilasters and shaped as aedicule windows on the third floor . A wide arabesques fries decorates the sill cornice of the fourth floor, the windows bear a Segmentgiebelverdachung. Inside, a staircase with Corinthian marble columns leads to the upper floors. The rooms are richly decorated with wall paneling , wooden coffered ceilings , original marble chimneys and oil paintings. Among the paintings are the "Twelve Months" by August Eisenmenger .
literature
- Dehio manual . The art monuments of Austria. Vienna, I. District - Inner City. 2007, ISBN 3-85028-366-6 , p. 648.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 7.7 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 35.8" E