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| David Orowitz | Heinrich Ferstel |
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http://www.magwien.gv.at/ma42/turk.htm Only discusses Ferstel briefly, as designing a park where the Turks once had laid seige on Vienna. In German. |
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http://www.austriaculture.net/CultEventAust1616.html
Mentions Ferstel as a "protagonist of Viennese architecture" and discusses the influence Viennese architects had on the Czech Republic. In English. |
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| Theophil Hansen | |
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http://www.cs.rice.edu/~shriram/Pictures/Austria/ Discusses the Parliament, which Hansen designed. Mentions how he originally wanted to use a Classic design, but switched to Baroque. Also contains pictures. In German. |
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| Tour of Vienna | |
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http://www.nun.co.at/carey/guide.html Mentions Gottfried Semper, Otto Wagner, Theophil Hansen and others. Good source for general information about Vienna. In German. |
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| Taylor Groetzinger | Karl Friedrich Schinkel |
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http://www.artifice.com/cgi-bin/gbc-architect.cgi/Karl_Friedrich_Schinkel.html This is the site for Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The site itself is pretty boring. It simply gives a biography of Schinkel, including his major accomplishments and positions in Berlin. It also gave some background into the type of style he used and why he used that particular style (due to his surroundings in Berlin and the general mood and opinion of the people at the time). |
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| Peter Holden | Peter Behrens and Karl Friedrich Schinkel |
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http://www.artifice.com/cgi-bin/gbc-architect.cgi/Peter_Behrens.html http://www.artifice.com/cgi-bin/gbc-architect.cgi/Karl_Friedrich_Schinkel.html The site has several pictures to go with it on the works of Peter Behrens. It gives a brief summary of his life and work and provides background material on him. It tells of his work with graphic and applied arts, which eventually led him to work for AEG, and produce some of the major buildings of the industrial era. The site provides a good amount of other architects throughout history, but the only other person is Karl Friedrich Schinkel from our list. This as well tells of the history and background of Schinkel, from his beginnings wandering through France and Italy observing styles and sketching them, to his disenchantment with French style and appointeeship as Surveyor of the Prussian Building Commission where he redesigned the buildings of Berlin to display the ambitions of Prussian culture. It provides pictures of his work, building etc. as well. |
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| Rebecca Savage | Otto Wagner |
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http://www.psk.co.at/OTTO-WAGNER/geschichte/ow_bio.html This particular site is originally in German, if you cannot read German, please consult the AltaVista translation page. Otto Wagner was born in 1841 and soon became one of the world's most highly regarded architects. Over the course of his life he took part in various Austrian as well as international projects. Probably his most important contribution to modern architecture was his part in the Sessions Movement (1899 - 1905). Although this site does not describe his accomplishments during this period, it is known that he designed a variety of public spaces in the new "art deco" style to which the Sessions gave birth. The content of this site is established in a basic outline format. Various dates are given in correspondence to important periods of Wagner's life. The information is very basic and pointed, therefore, supplying the reader with general yet comprehensive information on Otto Wagner's life. |
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| Lynne Salkin | Peter Behrens |
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http://www.archinform.de/arch/418.htm The article gives basic information about Peter Behrens, and the dates and locations of his major accomplishments. He studied painting in Karlsruhe and Dusseldorf before returning to Munich in 1890. Behrens was a painter and designer, and was a member of the Vereignigten Werkstatten fur Kunst im Handwerk in Munich. He built his first house in 1901 as part of the exhibition "Ein Dokument deutscher Kunst" for a fair in Mathildenhoehe. From 1903 to 1907 he was the director of the Kunstgewerbeschule (College of Arts and Crafts) in Dusseldorf. He later lived in Berlin where he was an artistic advisor for the AEG and helped design several buildings and factories. He played a major role in changes that took place in Alexanderplatz in Berlin in 1929. Similar information about any architect can be found at http://www.archinform.de |
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| German design : 1900 to present | |
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http://www.bundesregierung.de/.bin/lay/ausland/magazines/deutschland/d960601.html This site is in English and summarizes the history of German design from 1900 to the present. It includes some pictures and information about the growth of AEG and Peter Behrens' involvement in the company. |
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| Pictures and Witnesses of German History | |
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http://www.dhm.de/ausstellungen/bildzeug/ This site might be helpful for general information on German history (it's in German). It's called "Pictures and Witnesses of German History" and is basically an online version of an exhibit at the German Historical Museum in Berlin. The main museum webpage is at http://www.dhm.de, which is another good page to explore (especially the list of past exhibitions). |
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| Sarah Winne | Camillo Sitte |
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http://www.hum.gu.se/~artjw/publikationer/lorensberg.eng.html This website has lots of great information and can be accessed in English or German. The main focus of the article is how Camillo Sitte influenced architecture and industrialization in the late 1800's. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~mekhitarist/mekh/hispeed/chap07.htm This websight is only available in English. It contains some general information about Camillo Sitte as well as information about a church Sitte designed in the 1870's in Vienna. |
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| Stephen Mickle | Theophil Hansen |
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http://www.bmwf.gv.at/4unihoch/wienbike.htm This particular site is in English already, so translation is unnecessary. It gives many important facts regarding the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and touches on various architects and artists such as Hansen, Otto Wagner, Georg Semper, and many more. There are also some interesting facts about the Academy's founder, Peter Strudel (1660-1714) who was a court painter for the Hapsburgs. The founding of the academy dates back to 1692 when the Austrian Emperor assumed patronage of the institution. The page has some good information, although fairly general in many cases. It provides a good overview of Vienna art as well as architecture. |
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| John Farranto | Otto Wagner |
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http://www.archINFORM.de/restart.en.htm This is the address for an architectural database, which includes information on Otto Wagner (1841-1918), perhaps Austria's most influential architect. It is a valuable resource, as it provides Wagner's biography, a list of his work, and a couple pictures of his buildings. There is also information about the dates, materials, and styles of individual buildings like the Vienna Postal Savings Bank. The problem with this website is that it is all in German and cannot be easily translated. When I tried to translate it, a message said that it was composed of "frames" and therefore could not do it. Even though it is in German, I'm sure it would be useful. |
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| Adrienne Bliss | Wagner and Sitte |
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http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.w/w037790.htm;interal&sk=ROBOT http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/Wagner.htm http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/Sitte.htm The first one is originally in German and is part of an on-line encyclopedia about architects. It has a really brief of Otto Wagner's life as an architect which discussed his philosophy towards architecture and how it changed as time went on. I thought it was interesting even though there wasn't that much to be learned from it. The next two sites come from Cornell's library and had the advantage of being written in English! They both provided translations of articles that each architect wrote. Each provides a more exhaustive biography than the previous website, and are loaded with useful information on both architects. Another plus is that both sites have maps- Wagner's has two of the future 22nd ward of Vienna and Sitte's has a few of famous places in France (!!!) such as la Place de l'Etoile and of Marseille. |
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| Manal Ataya | Karl Schinkel |
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http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g126/peikx001/rcessay.htm I found this very thouroughly written essay on Karl Schinkel titled "The Last Great Architect". It is by Rand Carter, a professor at Hamilton. This essay is definitly one to read. The entire life of Schinkel is depicted in this essay, where almost no aspect of his life is left unincluded. He has a an extensive biography of his life as well as a significant amount of detailed information on his professional life. |
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| Kate Canale | Karl Friedrich Schinkel |
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http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g126/peikx001/rcessay.htm The essay "Karl Friedrich Schinkel 'The Last Great Architect'" is by an art history professor here at Hamilton, Dr. Rand Carter. It is a rather lengthy article, which contains information pertaining to both Schinkel and Germany. The article traces German architecture back to the classical styles of Greece and Rome. It also describes how Schinkel helped to reshape the architectural ideal in Germany to a more modern style. The article focuses both on Schinkel's life and his architectural works. It also includes important historical information on Germany and other artists of the time. |