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Exploring the Genius of Vienna’s Otto Wagner

February 19, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

Can it be possible to prove the genius of an architect with just two adjacent apartment buildings? I think so. But that’s certainly not to say that Otto Wagner (1841-1918) did not create plenty of other examples of his genius, especially since – after an early period defined by historicism – his work moved him …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: art nouveau, Borsi (Franco), Godoli (Ezio), Kassel-Mikula (Renata), Ludwig (Alois), Moser (Koloman), Olbrich (Josef Maria), Schimkowitz (Othmar), Vienna - Secession, Wagner (Otto)

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