Palais des Beaux Arts (Vienna)

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The Palais des Beaux Arts is a residential and office building in the 3rd Vienna district highway , Löwengasse 47-47A. The Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania and the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova have been located in this building since 1994 .

The house was built in 1908/09 by Anton and Josef Drexler , of whom some houses on the Rudolf-von-Alt-Platz, which was built shortly thereafter, and other buildings in the Weißgerberviertel also date from roughly the same time.

The building was originally intended for a Chic Parisien fashion center . It therefore combines elements of late historicism with decorative motifs from Western European Art Nouveau in an original way .

Friedrich Achleitner praises this building for the fact that, in contrast to its almost baroque wealth of decorations, it has a rational floor plan that allows optimum flexibility.

The building is dominated by the articulated corner tower, which is flanked by female figures holding globes.

Inside the house there is a richly furnished vestibule with floral stucco and reliefs of female figures in the stairwell.

Since 2014 there has been a changing exhibition program in the house. The art projects are broadcast over a wireless network in and around the Palais des Beaux Arts and are accessible to everyone via smartphone and tablet.

  • Corner tower with main portal

  • Facade detail in Paracelsusgasse

  • Group of figures on the northwest facade

  • Figures with globe at the Palais des Beaux Arts

  • Relief of female figures in the vestibule

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. 1995, Volume 4, p. 480.
  2. ^ Friedrich Achleitner: Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century, Volume III / 1, Residenz Verlag, Salzburg and Vienna, 1990, p. 127
  3. ^ Dehio Vienna II-IX & XX, p. 119.
  4. ↑ Quoted from Tanja Rudolf: Fidel through the third . In Die Presse print edition, June 21, 2014. Accessed July 23, 2014.
  5. ↑ Bernard Garnicnig about the "virtual gallery" at Vienna's Palais des Beaux Arts , Ö1 Leporello , January 13, 2015.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '24.4 "  N , 16 ° 23' 39.5"  E