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The Kirche am Steinhof (also called the Church of St. Leopold) in Vienna is the Roman Catholic oratory of the Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital. The building designed by Otto Wagner is considered one of the most important Art Nouveau churches in the world.
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The Kirche am Steinhof (also called the Church of St. Leopold) in Vienna is the Roman Catholic oratory of the Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital. The building designed by Otto Wagner is considered one of the most important Art Nouveau churches in the world.
The cross-shaped construction is towered by a high dome whose gilded copper plates shine again in their former splendor since the restoration. The church dedicated to Saint Leopold was built between 1903 and 1907 by the 63-year-old architect Otto Wagner, with mosaics and stained glass by Koloman Moser, and sculptural angels by OthmarSchimkowitz (1864–1947).
The great majority of the other smaller details are the work of Otto Wagner himself.
The statues on the two external towers represent Saint Leopold and Saint Severin (they are the two patron saints of Lower Austria) and are the work of the Viennese sculptor Richard Luksch (1872–1936)
Angel by Othmar Schimkowitz (1864-1947)
The external walls consist of white marble slabs fastened by large copper pins. The entire artistic outside and interior equipment shows once more the perfect co-operation of the artists from the Vienna Secession and Vienna Workshops (Wiener Werkstätte).
Otto Koloman Wagner (1841 –1918) was an Austrian architect and urban planner, known for his lasting impact on the appearance of his home town Vienna, to which he contributed many landmarks.
The largest mental hospital in Europe was built in Vienna between 1903 and 1907. It used modern architecture and elaborate landscaping to create a kind of model town for the insane. This model shows the wide scope of the institution on its sloping site with a panoramic view. At the summit of the main axis is the institution's church, a major work by the father of modern architecture, Otto Wagner.
Otto Wagner is the most famous architect of Art Nouveau or Jugenstil in Austria, and many of his designs are text-book examples of modern architecture and popular attractions with visitors of Vienna. Two buildings that are widely neglected by people that don′t happen to have a specialist interest in architecture are his private villas - the "Otto Wagner Villa I" and "Otto Wagner Villa II". The two houses neighbour each other and can be found in the outskirts of Vienna, in the 14th district of Penzing.
KarlsplatzStadtbahn Station is a former station of the Viennese Stadtbahn. The buildings above ground on Karlsplatz are a well-known example of Jugendstil architecture. These buildings were included in The Vienna Secession, as they followed many of the artistic styles of that movement. They were designed by Otto Wagner, adviser to the Transport Commission in Vienna, and Joseph Maria Olbrich and are, unlike the other Stadtbahn stations, made of a steel framework with marble slabs mounted on the exterior
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