biography
pronunciation:
[vahgner]
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| male
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| (1841–1918)
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| biography:
| Architect and teacher, born in Penzing, NE Austria. Professor at the Vienna Academy (1894–1912), he was the founder of the Vienna School, his pupils including Josef Hoffmann and Josef Olbrich. Though for many years a classical revivalist, he became an important advocate of purely functional architecture. His most influential work, produced at the end of his career, includes several stations in Vienna, and the Vienna Postal Savings Bank (1904–6), regarded as the first example of modern architecture in the 20th-c. |
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