Architecture

Otto Wagner

1841 Born July 13, in Penzing, near Vienna

1846 Death of father

1850 Attended Viennese Akademisches Gymnasium

1852 Pupil at the Kremsmuenster Boarding School

1857 Attended Viennese Polytechnic

1860 Attended the Koenigliche Bauakademie in Berlin

1863 Married Josefine Domhart

1864 Birth of son Otto

1865 Birth of son Robert

1867 Birth of daughter Susanne

1880 Death of mother

1881 Married Louise Stiffel

1884 Birth of son Stefan

1885 Birth of daughter Louise

1886 Collective exhibition in the Kuenstlerhaus

1889 Birth of daughter Christine

1894 Appointed full professor and head of a special School of Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna

1895 Appointed to the permanent art commission and the Art Council in the Ministry of Culture and Education.

1900 Juror at the International Exhibition in Paris

1903 Co-founder of the Association of Austrian Architects

1906 Took part in the International Congress of Architects in London

1908 President of the International Congress of Architects in Vienna

1910 Invited to attend the International Congress of Municipal Art in New York

1911 "Year of Honour" at the Academy

1912 Vice president of the Permanent Commission of the Congress of Fine Arts in Paris

1913 Continued to teach students during his retirement; retained courtesy title of professor

1917 Preface to diary Awarded honorary doctorate (Engineering) by the Department for High Buildings at the Technical College in Dresden

1918 Died in Vienna on April 11

Bibliography

Otto Wagner: Einige Skizzen, Projekte und ausgefuehrte Bauwerke, Vol.I, Vienna 1890; Vol.II, Vienna 1897, Vol.III, Vienna 1906; Vol.IV, Vienna 1922.

Explanatory Report appended to the Plan for the General Regulation of the Municipality of Vienna, 1st edition Vienna 1893, 2nd edition Vienna 1894. Moderne Architektur 1st edition Vienna 1895; 2nd edition Vienna 1899; 3rd edition Vienna 1902.

Die Baukunst unserer Zeit. A Guide for Young Architects, Vienna 1914." Die Kunst im Gewerbe" in: Ver Sacrum, Jg. III, Vienna 1900, Issue No.2,pp.21-32. Preservation of St. Stephan in Vienna in: Zeit, Vienna 1902, Issue No. 381.

The Karlsplatz and the Emperor Francis Joseph Municipal Museum. A contribution to the solution of these problems, Vienna 1903. Explanatory Report appended to the Competition Design fo the Imperial and Royal Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna 1903.

Explanatory Report appended to the Design for a Bridge over the Danube Canal linking the Rothenturmstrasse and the Lilienbrunngasse, Vienna 1904.

Explanatory Report appended to the Design for the Fontes Unitae, a project for linking the Muehlbrunn, Marktbrunn and Schlossbrunn Colonnades in Karlsbad, Vienna 1906.

Study for a Palace for Viennese Society on the Parkring, Vienna 1906.

Report on the Erection of Various Important State and Civic Buildings by Salaried Officials in: Transactions of the VIIth International Congress of Architects (London 1906), London 1908,pp.109-II.

Obituary on Joseph Olbrich in: Der Architekt,Jg. XIV, Vienna 1908,pp.161-3. On the Promotion of Art. A Reminder, Vienna 1909.

Explanatory Report appended to the Proposal submitted for the Competition for a Technical Museum for Industry and Craft, Vienna 1909.

Building a Hotel in: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft oesterr. Architekten 1909-10, Vienna 1910,pp. 10-18.

Die Grossstadt, A Study, Vienna 1911. Lay Assessments in Art in: Neue Freie Presse, Vienna, Feb.11, 1911.

On Architecture, Issue No.7, p.300. Leitmotif in: Otto Wagner's "Year of Honour" at the Imp. and Roy. Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Vienna 1912.