Ansichten vom Wiener Rathauskeller

Book Description

Vienna: Martin Gerlach. 1899. Oblong 4to. H Portfolio.. Fine.. Vienna: Martin Gerlach (1899). Oblong 4to, portfolio, lettered boards and cloth spine, ties. Fine. With accompanying booklet (a little soiled, bit of corner missing). The portfolio contains 51 photographic plates on thick card stock of the interiors of the Rathauskeller, decorated by Lefler and Urban, assisted by Karl Wilda, Alexander Goltz, Hugo Darnaut and others. The booklet contains fifteen chromolithograph plates on glossy paper of Lefler and Urban's artwork for the building. The restaurants, wine cellar, bar and halls were located beneath City Hall. This was the most significant project awarded by the Viennese government to an architect at the turn of the century. Huge murals by Lefler in the style of his and Urban's medieval and historical book illustrations provided the overall decorative scheme which included the furniture and architectural elements. A wonderful documentation of this work of fin-de-siècle fin-de-siècle architecture and decoration by the "Twins", as they were known in Jugendstil art circles. Carter and Cole, Joseph Urban, pages 24-30.

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