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Apartment and Commercial Building
Linke Wienzeile 38, Vienna
1898
The buildings of the so-called "Wienzeilenhäuser" form a sequence of three buildings composed as an urban corner situation.
These buildings by Otto Wagner are considered to be important representants of the Vienna Art Nouveau at the turn of the century.
The River Vienna had just been regulated, and Otto Wagner had the vision of a splendid boulevard between Karlsplatz and Schönbrunn.
As in many of his projects, Otto Wagner was his own client, so that he was able to follow his own artistic intentions.
In the work of Otto Wagner, these buildings are considered to be the important break with historism. A break which had been anounced
already by his buildings on Rennweg. Instead of exuberant decoration prevails a plan design in these buildings.
At the time of construction these buildings were considered to be modern and cosmopolitan examples of home cultivation,
because of the sobre layout and the integration of elevators.
The building located on Linke Wienzeile 38 was errected in 1898, the same year as the famous Majolica House. It became well known
for its corner articulation which is solved as a quadrant. The building is rendered white and adorned with golden ornaments by Koloman Moser.
On top of the building are positioned sculpteres by Othmar Schimkowitz, who later also made sculptures for the Steinhof Church by Otto Wagner.
Since 1914 this building is owned by the Kohn Family, which still cares of it. In the year 1947 the building was reimbursed to the Kohn Family,
which then returned from exile in South America.