Don Quijote de Viena
Wien, 1. Bezirk (the art of very historic places and institutions of Vienna), Künstlerhaus (the house of the artists, la casa de los artistas, la maison des artistes, la casa degli artisti) - Karlsplatz
(further pictures and information you can get by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Künstlerhaus Vienna
Künstlerhaus Vienna (1883)
Foyer of the Künstlerhaus (2007)
The Künstlerhaus is an exhibition building in the city center of Vienna (1st district). It is located in the Ring Road area between Academy Street, Bösendorferstraße, Dumbastraße and Musikverein place, next to the building of the Vienna Musikverein, and has its main entrance from the Karlsplatz.
The building was built in 1865-1868 and is now used as an exhibition house for painting, sculpture, architecture and applied arts. Owner is the Society of Austrian Visual Artists, Artists' House, the oldest existing association of artists in Austria. Since 1949, the Künstlerhaus operates (with the entrance on its side front at the Academy Street) the "Künstlerhaus" cinema, in which the by the Vienna Film Festival Viennale run "cinema city" will move in September 2013.
The Artists' Association
Poster of the Jubilee Exhibition in 1898
In the suburb Laimgrube which was incorporated in 1850 as part of the new district Mariahilf to Vienna there was at the corner Untere Stättengasse (since 1862 Dürergasse) and Canalgasse (since 1902 Joanelligasse) the restaurant "To The Blue Bouquet". There the architect Leopold Ernst 1847 finished under huge cost overrun a neo-Gothic ballroom. This hall was the meeting place of the in 1851 founded company of the association of young artists and academics, who later renamed itself in Albrecht Dürer's club.
1861, the artist clubs concord and Albrecht Dürer club joined together under the name Cooperative Artists of Vienna for the then professional organization of Viennese painters, sculptors and architects. 1868, the new house was purchased. 1897 split some modern artists from the Künstlerhaus and founded the Vienna Secession. Thus, the Künstlerhaus lost its function as the authoritative representation of all artists.
Since 1972, the association is also open to representatives of the applied arts. In 1976, while maintaining the cooperative legal form, it was renamed into Society of Visual Artists of Austria, Artists' House. Since 1983 also film and audiovisual artists are members. The in 1985 founded Künstlerhaus -Ges. m. b . H. (limited liability company) organizes also exhibitions for other museums and institutions. From 2002 to 2012 Peter Bogner was the director of Künstlerhaus.
Architectural History
The House of Artists in 1900
Exhibition: Space Inventions (2010)
After the decision by Emperor Franz Joseph I taken late 1857 to let demolish the city walls, the Vienna ring road was planned and built as a representative boulevard and by the Emperor in 1865 opened, in the year of the beginning of the construction of the Künstlerhaus. The at the Ministry of the Interior established urban expansion fund had the task to exploit the former military site and sold most of the lots to private investors. To the attractiveness of the new ring road zone should contribute cultural institutions to which the Fund provided land free of charge. These facilities included the Artists' House and the Musikverein, which received opposite the Karlskirche land on the banks of the then still open flowing river Wien.
Architect of the Künstlerhaus was August Weber (1836-1903), who had built 1863/1864 the horticulture building at the park ring. It was based on the style of an Italian Renaissance villa of Jacopo Sansovino. The Vienna company Anton Wasserburger carried out all the stonework, preferentially St. Margarethen and Wöllersdorfer stone and Kaiser stone from Kaiser quarry (Kaisersteinbruch) were used. Franz Joseph I put the keystone.
The on 1 September 1868 - almost nine months before the near Imperial Court Opera and 16 months before the neighboring Musikverein - opened house received in 1882 a larger annex, namely the two side wings, where later in 1949 left a cinema and 1974 right a theater was housed, in the same year the First International Art Exhibition was held in the Artist's house. 1888, the interior garden was roofed over.
In the last decade of the 19th Century, began construction works on the Vienna city railway and on the partial vaulting of the Vienna River. Since 1899, the artist house immediately adjacent rail station (since 1980 exclusively subway station), designed by Otto Wagner, is in operation. 1899/1900, the vaulting of the Wienfluss (Vienna river) was completed, so that the front of the Künstlerhaus no longer was situated on a river bank, but on the edge of the new, large, 1899 named Charles Square.
1956/57, the Stiftersaal was subjected to a massive modernization.
Building speculation
Artist House 1st Floor Exhibition: Cool Mega 4.0 (2012)
Exhibition: Munkácsy. Magic & Mystery (2012)
Exhibition: relationship work. Art and Institution (2011)
In the 20th Century the for the ring road area unusual low construction several times came under speculative demolition or at least increasement pressure. So the plan Kaym / Hetmanek in the early 1930s provided the replacement of the historicist pavilion by eight-story apartment buildings, 1935, the young Roland Rainer started to think about a "building density" at this prominent location.
The guidelines of the planning competition Karlsplatz in 1946 made clear that the city of Vienna the Artists' House and the Transport Office building at the other end of Karlsplatz considered as expendable (both still exist today). Also worth mentioning is the 1966 by Karl Schwanzer instead of the Künstlerhaus planned office building for IBM, but which met broad public discontent among the public and medias. The case of St. Florian church in the summer of 1965 probably here had led to second thoughts.
Current use and planning
Today, planning considerations are again underway to better integrate the Künstlerhaus through extensions and conversions in the museum cluster at Karlsplatz. For example, was the result of an in 1999 conducted architectural competition, which had provided the replacement of the two side wings through glass pavilions, in July 2010 by Beppo Mauhart again brought into play.
The on the southeastern side of Karlsplatz located Vienna Museum, opened in 1959 as the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, the Künstlerhaus repeatedly rented for months for exhibitions, among them were:
1985: dream and reality. Vienna 1870-1930 (Directorate Robert Waissenberger), designed by Hans Hollein, with 622,000 visits to date Viennese record
1987: Biedermeier and Vormärz (Directorate Günther Düriegl), designed by Boris Podrecca
2004: Alt-Wien. The city that never was (Directorate Wolfgang Kos)
2009/2010: Battle for the City. Politics, art and everyday life in 1930 (Directorate Wolfgang Kos)
Thus, there were considerations to transfer the Künstlerhaus into the management of the suffering from lack of space Vienna Museum, but the artists' association could not make friends with it. In the meantime, this is no longer considered in the Vienna Museum, and discussed with the municipality where a new building could be built for the museum.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History) the Artists' House in the era of the directorate of Wilfried Seipel in the last decade of the 20th Century also has used for exhibitions. Later, the Ministry of Education for it no longer has provided resources, by which was opened a significant gap in the budget of the Künstlerhaus.
2011 was publicly debated that occurred structural damages would require a lot of money for repairs, but that the association of artists these funds can not generate from the ongoing operation of the Künstlerhaus. The institutions as grants and subsidies coming into question, the Ministry of Education and Culture Department of the City Administration have, however, to face with their own budget problems.
Theatre
brut Künstlerhaus (Popfest 2013)
Since the conversion of the right wing to theater in the middle of the 1970s, the Comedians House Theatre was located there until 1985. After the end of which there was an attempt to revive the theater as a Political Stage Artists' House. On behalf of the City of Vienna and the former culture councillor Ursula Pasterk was decided in 1987 to place the theater together with the also vacant theater in the Konzerthaus the free theater groups of the city at the disposal. With 31 January 1989 took over the dietheater, supported by the Theatre Association of Vienna, under the artistic direction of Christian Pronay the two venues. By 2007, the dietheater served as a stage various Austrian, especially Viennese theater groups, the contemporary dance art devotes since then the annually held there festival imagetanz (image dance).
The re-tendering of the artistic direction of the theater club in the summer of 2006 Thomas Frank and Haiko Pfost could win for themselves, which on 20 November 2006 were designated by executive councillor for Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny as new artistic directors. This was followed by the reconstruction or renovation of the venue as well as the renaming of dietheater in brood (" brut Künstlerhaus" and "brut im Konzerthaus"). The re-opening as a stage for off-theater productions, dance performances and concerts took place on 9 November 2007.
Cinema
Cinema in the Künstlerhaus (Viennale 2009)
The cinema in the Künstlerhaus arose 1947-1949 with the conversion of the previously as an exhibition hall used left wing, designed by architect Alfons Hetmanek. The large paintings on the side walls of the cinema, allegorical representations of visual art, music, poetry, film and theater, stem from Rudolf Eisenmenger and Rudolf Holzinger. By 1966 Leopold Hauer was responsible for the program design as artistic director. Were shown here, among others, Austrian premieres of works by Jean Cocteau, Jacques Tati and René Clair.
After it was previously one of the cinemas showing films within the scope of the Viennale film festival, since 2005 it is again one of the festival venues. Was started in 2009 with the renovation and technical renewal of the cinema. By the end of 2012, the Künstlerhaus with the Viennale concluded a contract for 20 years, accordingly to which the "cinema city" will give up its location at Schwarzenbergplatz and in September 2013 as the "City Cinema in the Künstlerhaus" move here.
Wien, 1. Bezirk (the art of very historic places and institutions of Vienna), Künstlerhaus (the house of the artists, la casa de los artistas, la maison des artistes, la casa degli artisti) - Karlsplatz
(further pictures and information you can get by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Künstlerhaus Vienna
Künstlerhaus Vienna (1883)
Foyer of the Künstlerhaus (2007)
The Künstlerhaus is an exhibition building in the city center of Vienna (1st district). It is located in the Ring Road area between Academy Street, Bösendorferstraße, Dumbastraße and Musikverein place, next to the building of the Vienna Musikverein, and has its main entrance from the Karlsplatz.
The building was built in 1865-1868 and is now used as an exhibition house for painting, sculpture, architecture and applied arts. Owner is the Society of Austrian Visual Artists, Artists' House, the oldest existing association of artists in Austria. Since 1949, the Künstlerhaus operates (with the entrance on its side front at the Academy Street) the "Künstlerhaus" cinema, in which the by the Vienna Film Festival Viennale run "cinema city" will move in September 2013.
The Artists' Association
Poster of the Jubilee Exhibition in 1898
In the suburb Laimgrube which was incorporated in 1850 as part of the new district Mariahilf to Vienna there was at the corner Untere Stättengasse (since 1862 Dürergasse) and Canalgasse (since 1902 Joanelligasse) the restaurant "To The Blue Bouquet". There the architect Leopold Ernst 1847 finished under huge cost overrun a neo-Gothic ballroom. This hall was the meeting place of the in 1851 founded company of the association of young artists and academics, who later renamed itself in Albrecht Dürer's club.
1861, the artist clubs concord and Albrecht Dürer club joined together under the name Cooperative Artists of Vienna for the then professional organization of Viennese painters, sculptors and architects. 1868, the new house was purchased. 1897 split some modern artists from the Künstlerhaus and founded the Vienna Secession. Thus, the Künstlerhaus lost its function as the authoritative representation of all artists.
Since 1972, the association is also open to representatives of the applied arts. In 1976, while maintaining the cooperative legal form, it was renamed into Society of Visual Artists of Austria, Artists' House. Since 1983 also film and audiovisual artists are members. The in 1985 founded Künstlerhaus -Ges. m. b . H. (limited liability company) organizes also exhibitions for other museums and institutions. From 2002 to 2012 Peter Bogner was the director of Künstlerhaus.
Architectural History
The House of Artists in 1900
Exhibition: Space Inventions (2010)
After the decision by Emperor Franz Joseph I taken late 1857 to let demolish the city walls, the Vienna ring road was planned and built as a representative boulevard and by the Emperor in 1865 opened, in the year of the beginning of the construction of the Künstlerhaus. The at the Ministry of the Interior established urban expansion fund had the task to exploit the former military site and sold most of the lots to private investors. To the attractiveness of the new ring road zone should contribute cultural institutions to which the Fund provided land free of charge. These facilities included the Artists' House and the Musikverein, which received opposite the Karlskirche land on the banks of the then still open flowing river Wien.
Architect of the Künstlerhaus was August Weber (1836-1903), who had built 1863/1864 the horticulture building at the park ring. It was based on the style of an Italian Renaissance villa of Jacopo Sansovino. The Vienna company Anton Wasserburger carried out all the stonework, preferentially St. Margarethen and Wöllersdorfer stone and Kaiser stone from Kaiser quarry (Kaisersteinbruch) were used. Franz Joseph I put the keystone.
The on 1 September 1868 - almost nine months before the near Imperial Court Opera and 16 months before the neighboring Musikverein - opened house received in 1882 a larger annex, namely the two side wings, where later in 1949 left a cinema and 1974 right a theater was housed, in the same year the First International Art Exhibition was held in the Artist's house. 1888, the interior garden was roofed over.
In the last decade of the 19th Century, began construction works on the Vienna city railway and on the partial vaulting of the Vienna River. Since 1899, the artist house immediately adjacent rail station (since 1980 exclusively subway station), designed by Otto Wagner, is in operation. 1899/1900, the vaulting of the Wienfluss (Vienna river) was completed, so that the front of the Künstlerhaus no longer was situated on a river bank, but on the edge of the new, large, 1899 named Charles Square.
1956/57, the Stiftersaal was subjected to a massive modernization.
Building speculation
Artist House 1st Floor Exhibition: Cool Mega 4.0 (2012)
Exhibition: Munkácsy. Magic & Mystery (2012)
Exhibition: relationship work. Art and Institution (2011)
In the 20th Century the for the ring road area unusual low construction several times came under speculative demolition or at least increasement pressure. So the plan Kaym / Hetmanek in the early 1930s provided the replacement of the historicist pavilion by eight-story apartment buildings, 1935, the young Roland Rainer started to think about a "building density" at this prominent location.
The guidelines of the planning competition Karlsplatz in 1946 made clear that the city of Vienna the Artists' House and the Transport Office building at the other end of Karlsplatz considered as expendable (both still exist today). Also worth mentioning is the 1966 by Karl Schwanzer instead of the Künstlerhaus planned office building for IBM, but which met broad public discontent among the public and medias. The case of St. Florian church in the summer of 1965 probably here had led to second thoughts.
Current use and planning
Today, planning considerations are again underway to better integrate the Künstlerhaus through extensions and conversions in the museum cluster at Karlsplatz. For example, was the result of an in 1999 conducted architectural competition, which had provided the replacement of the two side wings through glass pavilions, in July 2010 by Beppo Mauhart again brought into play.
The on the southeastern side of Karlsplatz located Vienna Museum, opened in 1959 as the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna, the Künstlerhaus repeatedly rented for months for exhibitions, among them were:
1985: dream and reality. Vienna 1870-1930 (Directorate Robert Waissenberger), designed by Hans Hollein, with 622,000 visits to date Viennese record
1987: Biedermeier and Vormärz (Directorate Günther Düriegl), designed by Boris Podrecca
2004: Alt-Wien. The city that never was (Directorate Wolfgang Kos)
2009/2010: Battle for the City. Politics, art and everyday life in 1930 (Directorate Wolfgang Kos)
Thus, there were considerations to transfer the Künstlerhaus into the management of the suffering from lack of space Vienna Museum, but the artists' association could not make friends with it. In the meantime, this is no longer considered in the Vienna Museum, and discussed with the municipality where a new building could be built for the museum.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History) the Artists' House in the era of the directorate of Wilfried Seipel in the last decade of the 20th Century also has used for exhibitions. Later, the Ministry of Education for it no longer has provided resources, by which was opened a significant gap in the budget of the Künstlerhaus.
2011 was publicly debated that occurred structural damages would require a lot of money for repairs, but that the association of artists these funds can not generate from the ongoing operation of the Künstlerhaus. The institutions as grants and subsidies coming into question, the Ministry of Education and Culture Department of the City Administration have, however, to face with their own budget problems.
Theatre
brut Künstlerhaus (Popfest 2013)
Since the conversion of the right wing to theater in the middle of the 1970s, the Comedians House Theatre was located there until 1985. After the end of which there was an attempt to revive the theater as a Political Stage Artists' House. On behalf of the City of Vienna and the former culture councillor Ursula Pasterk was decided in 1987 to place the theater together with the also vacant theater in the Konzerthaus the free theater groups of the city at the disposal. With 31 January 1989 took over the dietheater, supported by the Theatre Association of Vienna, under the artistic direction of Christian Pronay the two venues. By 2007, the dietheater served as a stage various Austrian, especially Viennese theater groups, the contemporary dance art devotes since then the annually held there festival imagetanz (image dance).
The re-tendering of the artistic direction of the theater club in the summer of 2006 Thomas Frank and Haiko Pfost could win for themselves, which on 20 November 2006 were designated by executive councillor for Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny as new artistic directors. This was followed by the reconstruction or renovation of the venue as well as the renaming of dietheater in brood (" brut Künstlerhaus" and "brut im Konzerthaus"). The re-opening as a stage for off-theater productions, dance performances and concerts took place on 9 November 2007.
Cinema
Cinema in the Künstlerhaus (Viennale 2009)
The cinema in the Künstlerhaus arose 1947-1949 with the conversion of the previously as an exhibition hall used left wing, designed by architect Alfons Hetmanek. The large paintings on the side walls of the cinema, allegorical representations of visual art, music, poetry, film and theater, stem from Rudolf Eisenmenger and Rudolf Holzinger. By 1966 Leopold Hauer was responsible for the program design as artistic director. Were shown here, among others, Austrian premieres of works by Jean Cocteau, Jacques Tati and René Clair.
After it was previously one of the cinemas showing films within the scope of the Viennale film festival, since 2005 it is again one of the festival venues. Was started in 2009 with the renovation and technical renewal of the cinema. By the end of 2012, the Künstlerhaus with the Viennale concluded a contract for 20 years, accordingly to which the "cinema city" will give up its location at Schwarzenbergplatz and in September 2013 as the "City Cinema in the Künstlerhaus" move here.