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Vienna’s Otto-Wagner-Spital: A Disturbing Story

July 21, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

Before I conclude my own personal homage to Vienna’s most famous architect (coming in a few weeks when I write about Otto Wagner’s stunning Österreichische Postsparkasse) I want to look again at the Otto-Wagner-Spital which we visited a few days back. In the previous post, I made reference to the fact that the Otto Wagner Hospital in …

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Filed Under: History, Travel Tagged With: art nouveau, Central European University, Kindereuthanasie in Wien 1940-1945, Otto-Wagner-Spital, Steiner (Leopold), Vienna, Vienna - Am Spiegelgrund, Vienna - Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, Vienna - Klinik Penzik, Vienna - Memorial Steinhof, Vienna - Memorial to the History of Nazi-Medicine in Vienna, Vienna - Psychiatrisches Krankenhaus, Vienna - Zentralfriedhof, von Boog (Carlo), Wagner (Otto), Zednicek (Walter)

Opera Diary: Vienna: Otto-Wagner-Spital / Klinik Penzing and The “Parsifal” Connection

July 13, 2020 By Guy St. Clair

Let’s have another look at the beautiful site where Otto Wagner’s stunning Kirche am Steinhof is located. It’s an iconic Art Nouveau structure I’ve written about before (last December in fact), and many readers commented positively when I described Wagner’s church, located at the top of the hill overlooking the district. So I’m now happy to …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, History, Travel Tagged With: art nouveau, Central European University, Hermanis (Alvis), Jugendstil - Vienna, Kirche am Steinhof, Laurson (Jens F.), Parsifal (opera), Pöhn (Michael), Vienna, Vienna Klinik Penzing, Vienna Staatsoper, Wagner (Otto), Wagner (Richard)

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