Otto WagnerAustrian, 1841–1918Kleinstadtplatz mit Linde
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Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden
Dresden, Germany
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
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- The museum
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Meanwhile, in the life of Otto Wagner
The whole life13 July 1841
Birth in Penzing
Born in Penzing — then a suburb of Vienna next to the imperial residence of Schönbrunn — to Rudolf Simeon Wagner, a prosperous notary of the Hungarian royal court chancellery, and Susanne von Helfersdorfer, née Hübner.
c. 1846
The death of his father
His father died of a lung disease when Otto was five. The family was left in want, yet his mother, Susanne, managed to give her son a good education.
from 1850
Schooling in Vienna and at Kremsmünster
From 1850 Wagner spends two years at the Vienna Academic Gymnasium, then attends the Benedictine gymnasium at Kremsmünster Abbey in Upper Austria.
1857–1860
The Vienna Polytechnic Institute
In 1857 Wagner enters the Vienna Polytechnic Institute, where he studies mathematics, physics, descriptive geometry, technology and drawing. Some accounts extend his studies to 1862, others have them ending in 1860, when he left for Berlin.
1860–1861
The Berlin Building Academy
On finishing his studies in Vienna Wagner goes to Berlin and studies at the Royal Building Academy under Carl Ferdinand Busse, a pupil of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the leader of the German school of neoclassical and neo-Gothic architecture.
1862
Joins Ludwig von Förster’s office
Wagner joins the architectural office of Ludwig von Förster, whose studio designed much of the new architecture along the Ringstraße. The first part of his career, lasting until about 1880, was spent on that boulevard; he described his own style of those years as “a sort of free Renaissance”.
