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include letters and books,
furnishings, and photographs.
Even his hat and cane are on
show. The apartment was
abandoned when the Nazis
forced Freud to leave, but
still preserves an intimate
domestic atmosphere.
9 Museum of
Applied Arts
Stubenring 5. Tel 01-711 360. Group of stone owls decorating the Secession Building
Stubentor, Landstrasse. @ 3A, 74A.
v 2. Open 10am–10pm Tue, showcase for the Secession saint of the plague. Johann
10am–6pm Wed–Sun. Closed Jan 1, movement’s artists in 1898. Bernhard Fischer von Erlach’s
May 1, Nov 1, Dec 25. & 7 0 = The almost windowless eclectic Baroque masterpiece
8 ∑ mak.at building is a squat cube with borrows from the architecture
four towers. The filigree globe of ancient Greece and Rome.
The MAK (Museum für of entwined laurel leaves on The interior was embellished
angewandte Kunst) was founded the roof gave rise to the with carvings and altarpieces
in 1864 as a museum for art and building’s nickname: by leading artists of the day.
industry. Over the years, it also “The Golden Cabbage.” Johann Michael Rottmayr’s
acquired objects representing Inside, Gustav Klimt’s famous huge fresco in the cupola
new artistic movements. The Beethoven Frieze, designed in (1725–30) depicts St. Charles
museum has a fine collection 1902, covers three walls and is in heaven interceding for
of furniture, including some 34 m (110 ft) long. deliverance from the plague.
classical works of the German
cabinet-maker
David Roentgen, q Karlskirche w Albertina
textiles, glass, Karlsplatz. Tel 01-505 6294. Albertinaplatz 1. Tel 01-534 830.
Islamic and East Karlsplatz. @ 4A. v D, 1, 2. Karlsplatz, Stephansplatz. @ 2A.
Asian art, and fine Open daily. & ∑ karlskirche.at v D, 1, 2, 71. Open 10am–6pm daily
Renaissance (to 9pm Wed). & 7 8 = 0
jewelry. There is During Vienna’s plague ∑ albertina.at
also a whole room epidemic of 1713, Karl VI vowed
full of Biedermeier that, as soon as the city was Hidden away in a corner of the
furniture. The delivered, he would build a Hofburg is the Albertina, a
most important church dedicated to St. Charles palace named after Duke Albert
Austrian artistic Borromeo (1538–84), a patron of Sachsen-Teschen, Maria
movement was Theresa’s son-in-law. Its
the Secession, collection includes one
formed by artists million prints, 65,000
Brass vase who seceded watercolors and drawings,
(1903) by Kolo from the Vienna and over 70,000 photo-
Moser
academy in 1897. graphs. The gems of the
Their style, also collection are by Dürer,
known as Jugendstil, is rep- with Michelangelo and
resented through the many and Rubens also well repre-
varied productions of the Wiener sented. Picasso heads a
Werkstätte (Viennese Workshops), fine 20th-century section.
a cooperative arts and crafts The Batliner Coll ection
studio, founded in 1903. traces the pro gression
from Impression ism
0 Secession to Modernism.
Building The palace has been
restored to its former
Friedrichstrasse 12. Tel 01-587 5307. glory and now, for the
Karlsplatz. Open 10am–6pm first time in over 200
Tue–Sun. & 7 ∑ secession.at years, it is possible to
visit the Habsburg State
Joseph Maria Olbrich designed Rooms with their
the unusual Secession Building Karlskirche, with column showing scenes from the Neoclassical architecture
in Jugendstil style as a life of St. Charles Borromeo and interior decoration.
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