Koetzle Hans - Michael
Koetzle Hans - Michael - Vienna. Portrait Of A City - Hardcover
Koetzle Hans - Michael - Vienna. Portrait Of A City - Hardcover
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Description: Vienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro - Hungarian Empire the stately city on the Danube has been defined by vast palaces and imperial grandeur but behind the Baroque opulence Vienna is also a place of genteel coffee house culture epicurean tradition and a heritage of both delicate and daring music art and design from Johann Strauss to Egon Schiele from Gustav Mahler to Josef Hoffmann. This volume is a treasure trove of photography from the last 175 years following the evolution of Vienna from imperial capital to modern metropolis. Like a visual walk through time and cityscape hundreds of carefully curated pictures trace the developments in Vienna's built environment and the cultural and historical trends they reflect whether the urban Gesamtkunstwerk of the 19th - century Ringstrasse or the experiments of Red Vienna in the 1920s when the city had a social democrat government for the first time. Through these remarkable photographs we discover not only the great landmarks and lesser - known corners of Vienna but also the ubiquity and the tumult of its history. We see the cultural blossoming of the fin de si cle when radical innovators such as Gustav Klimt Egon Schiele Adolf Loos and Sigmund Freud turned Vienna into a laboratory of modernity ; the clashes of 1934; the ascent of Nazi dictatorship; and the horrors writ by the Holocaust in what was once one of the most populous and multi - ethnic cities on earth. More recently fascinating postwar photographs explore the Vienna of the Third Man at once a city in ruins and a hub for spies. The book closes with the most recent pictures celebrating the emergence of today's Vienna one of the most attractive cities in Europe in which rich history once again coexists with international flair and vibrant contemporary culture.
Title: Vienna. Portrait Of A City
Author(s): Koetzle Hans - Michael
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836567268
Pages: 532 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/30/2019
Category: Places In Old Photographs
Description: Vienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro - Hungarian Empire the stately city on the Danube has been defined by vast palaces and imperial grandeur but behind the Baroque opulence Vienna is also a place of genteel coffee house culture epicurean tradition and a heritage of both delicate and daring music art and design from Johann Strauss to Egon Schiele from Gustav Mahler to Josef Hoffmann. This volume is a treasure trove of photography from the last 175 years following the evolution of Vienna from imperial capital to modern metropolis. Like a visual walk through time and cityscape hundreds of carefully curated pictures trace the developments in Vienna's built environment and the cultural and historical trends they reflect whether the urban Gesamtkunstwerk of the 19th - century Ringstrasse or the experiments of Red Vienna in the 1920s when the city had a social democrat government for the first time. Through these remarkable photographs we discover not only the great landmarks and lesser - known corners of Vienna but also the ubiquity and the tumult of its history. We see the cultural blossoming of the fin de si cle when radical innovators such as Gustav Klimt Egon Schiele Adolf Loos and Sigmund Freud turned Vienna into a laboratory of modernity ; the clashes of 1934; the ascent of Nazi dictatorship; and the horrors writ by the Holocaust in what was once one of the most populous and multi - ethnic cities on earth. More recently fascinating postwar photographs explore the Vienna of the Third Man at once a city in ruins and a hub for spies. The book closes with the most recent pictures celebrating the emergence of today's Vienna one of the most attractive cities in Europe in which rich history once again coexists with international flair and vibrant contemporary culture.
Title: Vienna. Portrait Of A City
Author(s): Koetzle Hans - Michael
Publisher: Taschen Gmbh
Barcode: 9783836567268
Pages: 532 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/30/2019
Category: Places In Old Photographs
