Monat: Feber 2024

In the listed branch of the Dorotheum auction house in the 10th district, built in 1929 according to plans by Arch. Michael Rosenauer, special auctions on the subject of „historical entertainment technology“ are also held in addition to weekly auctions.

The three-zone, cubist, block-like reinforced concrete building features slit-like, three-window groups spanning several storeys and houses a prestigious auction room on the first floor.

Rosenauer, who was open to new materials and construction techniques, was born in Wels in 1884 and studied under Karl König and Max Ferstel in Vienna in addition to his artistic training. Even before the Dorotheum was completed, he moved to London and contributed to the revitalization of slums and social housing, later planning residential buildings in elegant London districts. After a stay in the USA, he returned to London and designed, among other things, the administrative building of the Time-Life Group, which opened in 1953 with well-known sculptures by Henry Moore on the façade.

The monument to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, created by sculptor Viktor Tilgner and Arch. Carl König was unveiled on Albertinaplatz five days after Tilgner’s death on April 21, 1896. Soon after its unveiling, there were calls for a change of location, and after bomb damage during World War II, it was finally moved to the Burggarten in 1953.

The late historicist statue made of Lasa marble – a hard, durable and weather-resistant marble from South Tyrol – shows the composer with a music stand on a three-tiered pedestal with a keyboard-shaped upper edge and bronze instruments and a laurel wreath, flanked by angels playing music.

Below this, a bas-relief depicts the invitation and appearance of the Stone Guest from the opera „Don Giovanni“, a reference to the opening performance of the Vienna State Opera in 1869. On the reverse, the six-year-old composer is shown at the piano surrounded by his family with his father Leopold playing the violin and his sister Nannerl singing.

Named after the arch. Günther Domenig in the 10th district the Domenig House from 1979 is considered a major work of the avant-garde „Graz School“, a movement of the 2nd half of the 20th century with impressive cubatures and façades. Originally built as a bank building for the former Zentralsparkasse (now Bank Austria), it now functions as an office building for the Vienna Echo publishing house, among others.

The now listed „house with the kink“ directly between the subway and Victor-Adler-Markt has hardly any straight lines inside or out and features a sculpturally expressive self-supporting façade made of stainless steel panels, which is unusual for Vienna and appears to be squeezed between the neighboring buildings like sheds or veins.