DAVID ALAN BOYD studio

In the three decades before WWI, there arose in Vienna, the capitol of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, an architectural and artistic rebellion against the establishment, imperialist Beaux Arts order. It was a pan-arts movement that included the painter Gustav Klimpt, the designer Koloman Moser, and numerous architects including Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffman, Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Adolf Loos. Wagner was the elder of the group and the most prolific and successful architect associated with the Vienna Secession. His Postal Savings Bank and Kirche Am Steinhof are among the greatest works of early modern architecture. This gallery includes photographs of those works, and works by Olbrich, Loos, and a later protogé of Wagner, Karl Ehn who designed the social housing block Karl Marx Hof during the Post-WWI period known as Red Vienna.