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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Vienna, Wien, Austriaen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1903-1906 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorWagner, Ottoen_US
dc.date1903-1906en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-14T19:54:36Z
dc.date.available2013-03-14T19:54:36Z
dc.date.issued1903-1906en_US
dc.identifier200179en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1251en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/107941
dc.descriptionGeneral view depicting the east and south façades; The design for the Postsparkasse, one of his best-known works, won a competition (1903) and is based on a logical trapezoidal plan with a banking hall at its centre. The six-storey entrance façade, surmounted by a simple Sezessionstil pergola flanked by winged figures, has large windows set in walls faced with white marble with aluminium fixings. The central space of the banking hall (modified 1980s) had a glass vault of stilted elliptical section carried on riveted steel columns, and a floor with glass lenses to light the basement below; aluminium ventilation bollards ranged around the wall added to the illusion of an industrial aesthetic. The bank owed its atmospheric effect to the impression of silver light produced by glass, aluminium and marble. One of the earliest icons of the Modern Movement, it is contemporary with Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Building, pre-dates Peter Behrens's Turbinenfabrik in Berlin by several years and marks the achievement of Van der Nüll's concept of a tradition-driven modern architecture of the future. [The building now houses a museum dedicated to Wagner]. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/26/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediummarble; graniteen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectbusiness, commerce and tradeen_US
dc.subjectSecession Movementen_US
dc.subjectSezessionstilen_US
dc.subjectModernisten_US
dc.titlePostparkasseen_US
dc.title.alternativeAustrian Postal Savings Banken_US
dc.title.alternativeMuseum Postparkasseen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-WO-P-A4en_US
vra.culturalContextAustrianen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypebank (building)en_US
dc.contributor.displayOtto Wagner (Austrian architect, 1841-1918)en_US


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