Cooperative Bank Building
Vurnik, Ivan
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Alternative Title
Zadruzna gospodarska banka
Date
1921-1922Description
Front elevation, view looking up; The painted decorations in the hall and on the façade are the work of the architect's wife, Helena Vurnik. The ground-floor (public bank), is articulated with round arches of which the left leads through the roadside part of the building into the courtyard. Strongly profiled mouldings divide the façade in horizontal direction and a triangular attic crowns its entire width. Two oriels link the façade on either side from the first to the fourth floors; also the three central windows on the fourth floor protrude from the wall to form a small oriel each. Decorative folk motifs in contrasting Slovene colours surround the window apertures, the façade planes of the oriels and the strongly protruding cornice. The Cooperative Bank is the most important work of Vurnik's early output, which cannot hide its distant Secessionist models, although created at least fifteen years later than the most important works of Secessionist architecture. This early period has been characterised as national romanticism by Slovene scholars. [Grove refers to it as the Industrial Bank.] Source: Reseau Art Nouveau Network [website]; http://www.artnouveau-net.eu/ (accessed 7/18/2010)
Type of Work
bank (building); apartment houseSubject
architecture, decorative arts, mixed-use, Slovene vernacular, Vienna Secession, Twentieth century, Art Nouveau, Sezessionstil
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