Monday, March 9, 2009



Art Nouveau Links
>"+form.search.value+" Here is some good info about Otto Wagner
I chose him because he was the architect for the Majolica House, a secessionist apartment house in Vienna whose entire facade is covered with ceramic tiles depicting red Icelandic poppies. It was considered hideous beyond words in it's day, but I like anything that has to do with flowers, ceramics or Art Nouveau buildings. Squerl SEARCH


Otto WAGNER
(1841-1918)Austrian architect and urbanist
Wagner studied architecture at the School of Architecture at Vienna Academy, Austria, where he later became a teacher. Among his students were the renowned Art Nouveau architects Josef Maria Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann.From 1895 he was influenced by new art styles, more suited to the needs of modern way of life and developed his theories on architecture, relating to function, material and construction, in the book "Modern Architecture" (1895). In 1898, he built his first Art Nouveau building, the Majolica House in Vienna, a functional structure with the facade covered in multicolored majolica tiles. He also designed in 1894, the Vienna metropolitan railway system.Otto Wagner was one of the founding members of the Vienna Secession, with fellow artists Klimt, Hoffmann and Olbrich, in 1899. He was one of the most influential artists of the turn of the century : architect, urnbanist, applied artist and theoretician, his writings laid the groundwork for Modernism in architecture. In his architectural works, he was receptive to the use of modern methods of building (steel frame construction) and new materials (thin marble slabs for the façades).

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