Style & seduction : Jewish patrons, architecture, and design in Fin de Siècle Vienna / Elana Shapira.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shapira, Elana, author.

Series:

Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered)

The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society--Austria--Vienna--History--19th century.

Architecture and society.

Architecture and society--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century.

Architects and patrons--Austria--Vienna--History--19th century.

Architects and patrons.

Architects and patrons--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century.

Design--Austria--Vienna--History--19th century.

Design.

Design--Austria--Vienna--History--20th century.

Jews--Art patronage.

Jews.

History.

Vienna (Austria)--Civilization--19th century.

Vienna (Austria).

Vienna (Austria)--Civilization--20th century.

Civilization.

Austria--Vienna.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 314 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Style and seduction

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2016]

Summary:

A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna gives rise to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? In this provocative reexamination of the roots of Viennese modernism, Elana Shapira analyzes the central role of Jewish businessmen, professionals, and writers in the evolution of the city's architecture and design from the 1860s to the 1910s. According to Shapira, these patrons negotiated their relationship with their non-Jewish surroundings and clarified their position within Viennese society by inscribing Jewish elements into the buildings, interiors, furniture, and design objects that they financed, produced, and co-designed. This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews' active fashioning of a new language to convey their aims for emancipation, along with their claims of cultural authority. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Historicists, 1860s-70s

Eduard von Todesco, Gustav von Epstein, and Their Neo-Renaissance Palaces on the Ringstrasse 21

2 The Secessionists, 1897-1902

Ludwig Hevesi, Karl Wittgenstein and the Secession House, and Friedrich Victor Spitzer's Music Salon 57

3 The Modernists, 1902-7

Isidor Singer and Heinrich Kanner and the Telegraph Office of Die Zeit, Fritz Waerndorfer's House for the Art Lover, the Wiener Werkstätte and the Cabaret Fledermaus, and the Richard Beer-Hofmann Villa 115

4 The Avant-Gardists, 1908-11

Peter Altenberg's Portrait in the American Bar and Leopold Goldman and the Goldman & Salatsch House 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Shapira, Elana, author. Style and seduction

ISBN:

9781611689204

1611689201

9781611689211

161168921X

OCLC:

923650823