200 Years Theophil Hansen

摘要

In 2013 Vienna is celebrating its great, Danish-born architect Theophil Hansen(1813-1891). He settled in Vienna at a time when not only the growth of city from 1857 but also the industrialisation of the arts and crafts and the economic strength of a new class of clients were all conducive to his interest in the Gesamtkunstwerk. Adolf Stiller opened Vienna's Hansen year with an exhibition in the Ringturm. Under the title "Classical Elegance in Everyday Life" little-known buildings such as the Invalidenhaus in Lemberg (Lviv) or Palais Klein on the Ringstraße in Brno/Brünn are presented in old and new photographs and through Hansen's sculpturally detailed, often coloured drawings and plans. Hansen linked his Palais Prazac and the Czech cultural centre Besedni Dum (Clubhouse) in Brno by means of a terrace; in the extensive catalogue Jan Sapak places these twin buildings on a comparable level with Hansen's Parliament in Vienna. Of his works in Vienna the large representational buildings on the Ring take pride of place, above all the Parliament house. An overall renovation of this building is soon to start, while a competition was held for the renovation of the plenary hall, which Feilerer and Worle built there in the 1950s, and a winner selected, but this has been revoked (architektur.aktuell 3/2013).