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Jugendstil in Vienna
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The Jugendstil walk
The Viennese Jugendstil or Wiener Secession is quite a different style. On this walk, we will be looking at and visiting a number of creations.
We start at the Karlsplatz underground station. This is one of the most beautiful stations built by Otto Wagner, who was the most trend-setting personality of the Wiener Secession. This building features an exhibition about him, and this immediately gives you the opportunity of visiting the Naschmarkt. This is a market where the Viennese buy their foodstuffs. There is also a flea market. The Naschmarkt is on our walk.
From the Karlsplatz you walk into the Friedrichstrasse. After a few hundred metres, you will see the Secession building on the right-hand side. This most remarkable building was not a creation by Otto Wagner but instead by Joseph Olbrich. This is where the most contemporary art forms are on exhibition and here you can also find out more about this movement. Definitely worth a visit for art lovers.
After this visit, we proceed to the Linke Wienzeile. Along this street there are a few apartment blocks designed by Otto Wagner. The river Wien used to run between the Rechte and Linke Wienzeile, and this is still the case somewhat further down. Beautiful houses border the Wien. Where the Wien continues its course underground, that is where the Naschmarkt takes over. We are particularly interested in nos. 38 and 40 on the Left Wienzeile. These are office and apartment buildings by Otto Wagner.
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On the opposite side, on the Rechte Wienzeile, is the next underground station which we want to head for. This is why we continue to walk a small distance until we can turn left into the Steggasse, and then left again for the underground station Kettenbrückengasse. This station was also created by Otto Wagner. This is where the flea market takes place and where the Naschmarkt ends. Now we can take the underground to the 'Stadtpark' stop.
We now walk straight across the Stadtpark and will see lighting and benches, which were designed by the same architect, and also the very special little bridge across the Wien. We continue our walk through the park until we reach the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst und Musik or MAK in short. This museum comprises quite a number of works of art by the European Jugendstil artists because it was built in the same era.
This is the end of the walk. The underground station that is nearest to the museum is the Stubentor or perhaps another walk through the Stadtpark? After all, the park is criss-crossed by paths.
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Picture: ©Photographer: Alexander Kautz | Agency: Dreamstime.com
Text: GVDV/RD - © AT-Europe sprl
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