Fin de siècle Vienna

ARC 331/435 Spring 2016
3. FIN DE SIÈCLE VIENNA
4. INTERWAR EUROPE (PART 1)
Context
Vienna & the Ringstraße (from 1857)
Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Die Jugend” (Jugendstil)
Darmstadt Artists’ Colony: 1901-14
Transitions
Behrens, Le Corbiser, Mies van der Rohe
The World Wars
1914-18
WW1
1939-45
WW2
Die Wien Sezession
“Der Zeit ihre Kunst / Der Kunst Ihre Freiheit”
Joseph Maria Olbrich, Secession Gallery, Vienna: 1898
Dada
1916
1917
Hugo Ball, “dada Manifesto”
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain
Otto Wagner
Ankerhaus: 1894
Modern Architektur: 1896
Majolikahaus: 1898
Wien Stadtbahn: opened in 1898
Stations, bridges, viaducts designed by Wagner
Postparkasse (Postal Savings Bank), Vienna Austria: 1904-06
cf. Ludwig Baumann, Regierungsgebäude (Government Building),
1909-13
St. Leopold/Kirche am Steinhof, Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital: 1903-07
Koloman Moser: mosaics and stained glass
Othmar Schimkowitz: angel sculptures
Richard Luksch: sculptures of Sts. Leopold and Severin (patron saints of
Lower Austria; l & r, respectively)
Futurism
1913
1912
1912
1914
1914
Umberto Boccioni, “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space”
Giacomo Balla, “Speeding Automobile”
Balla, “Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash”
Antonio Sant’Elia, “Manifesto of Futurist Architecture”
Antonio Sant’Elia, La Città Nuovo (project)
Adolf Loos
“Ornament and Crime” (1908)
furniture designs
American Bar: 1903
Goldman and Salatch Building, Vienna: 1909-11
Terminology
Jugendstil
Vienna Secession/Wien Sezession
Expressionism
1893
Edvard Munch, The Scream
1914
Paul Scheerbart, Glass Architecture
1919
Bruno Taut, Alpine Architektur
1922
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (dir.), Nosferatu
1919
Robert Wiene (dir.), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
C. Boese & P. Wegener (dir.), Der Golem (sets by Hans Poelzig)
1927
Fritz Lang (dir.), Metropolis
Gropius, Sommerfield House, Berlin: 1921
Mies. Monument in Berlin, 1926
Behrens. Administration Building, Farben Factory, Frankfurt: 1920
Peder Jensen-Klint. Grundtvigs Kirke, Copenhagen, 1922
Hans Poelzig. Grosses Schauspielhaus, Berlin: 1919
Erich Mendelsohn. Einstein Tower, Potsdam Germany: 1917
Bruno Taut, Glass Pavilion, Werkbund Exhibition, Cologne: 1914
Taut, Haus des Himmels (project): 1919
Taut, Skyscraper (project): 1923
Mies van der Rohe. Glass Skyscrapers for the Friedrichstraße, Berlin: 1919
Terminology
Deutscher Werkbund