Belle Epoque - Vienna: Hietzing/Penzing

Austria

Vienna: 13. Hietzing and 14. Penzing

Otto Schönthal
Villa Vojcsik (1901)
Linzer Straße 375

Otto Schönthal was only 22 years old when Otto Wagner got him the commission to build this dwelling house with practice for his family doctor Ladislaus Vojcsik. The fact that the middle section is distinctly higher than the rest of the building makes it stand out of its neighbourhood as well as the unusual canopy roof. The symmetry of the building is not at all disturbed by the entrance and the loggia window decorated in the same way and of which the singular shape appears particularly aesthetical. Probably the colouration has served as model for the second Villa Wagner. The building is one of the rarely realized audacious designs of the Wagner school around 1900.

August Ribak
Apartment House (1905)
Fenzlgasse 24