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Modern Architecture


Modern Architecture, including Jugendstil (Art Noveau)



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"Tree-tenants" look out from windows and balconies in "Hundertwasser-House" in Vienna's Kegelgasse. Designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 1986.
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"Tree-tenants" look out from windows and balconies in "Hundertwasser-House"...

Facade above entrance arcade, with gold mosaic. "Hunderwasser-House" in Vienna's Kegelgasse, designed by painter and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser in 1986. See also 40-16-01/61-70
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Facade above entrance arcade, with gold mosaic. "Hunderwasser-House" in...

Communal wintergarden, seen from outside; house built 1985 by painter and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser in Kegelgasse, Vienna. 1986 See also 40-16-01/61-70
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Communal wintergarden, seen from outside; house built 1985 by painter an...

Communal wintergarden in the center of the apartment- house built by Friedensreich Hunderwasser, painter and architect, in Kegelgasse, Vienna, 1986. Old wrought-iron stair leads nowhere, is purely ornamental. See also 40-16-01/61-70
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Communal wintergarden in the center of the apartment- house built by Friedensr...

Old, wrought-iron staircase in communal wintergarden of the apartment house designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, painter and architect, in 1986. Staircase is another "memory" of the old house replaced by the new building (see 14-03-01/57).
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Old, wrought-iron staircase in communal wintergarden of the apartment house d...

Covered sidewalk of "Hunderwasser-house", the apartment house designed by painter and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser in Kegelgasse, Vienna. 1986.
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Covered sidewalk of "Hunderwasser-house", the apartment house designed by painte...

Central staircase of "Hundertwasser-House", the apartment house designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, painter and architect. Vienna, Kegelgasse, 1986
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Central staircase of "Hundertwasser-House", the apartment house desi...

Ornaments in corners of staircase were suggested by Hundertwasser, who is proud that such suggestions were taken up by building workers who proceeded to create their own designs, like this sunflower. "Hundertwasser-House", Kegelgasse, Vienna. 1986
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Ornaments in corners of staircase were suggested by Hundertwasser, who is...

Staircase of "Hundertwasser-House", Vienna, Kegelgasse. Workers were told to work "folds" into the walls, to avoid straight lines and right angles. Ornaments, suggested by Hundertwasser, were created by the building workers. 1986
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Staircase of "Hundertwasser-House", Vienna, Kegelgasse. Workers were told to wor...

Staircase of "Hundertwasser-House" designed by painter and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Kegelgasse, Vienna, 1986. Ornaments were suggested by Hundertwasser, but created by the building workers.
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Staircase of "Hundertwasser-House" designed by painter and architect Friedensre...

Bathroom in one of the apartments in "Hunderwasser- House" in Kegelgasse, Vienna, the house designed by painter and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Tiles and walls are crooked, to avoid straight lines and right angles wich the artist despises.
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Bathroom in one of the apartments in "Hunderwasser- House" in Kegelgasse, Vi...

Postal savings bank (Oesterreichische Postsparkasse), Vienna, 1904-1906. Female genii by Othmar Schimkowitz.
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Postal savings bank (Oesterreichische Postsparkasse), Vienna, 1904-1906. Femal...