Otto Wagner: Quick Facts

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Born	July 13, 1841 • Austria
Died	April 11, 1918 (aged 76) • Vienna • Austria
Movement / Style	Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau initial

Henry van de Velde

Belgian architect

Hoffmann, Josef

Josef Hoffmann

Austrian architect

Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius

German-American architect

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Rudolf Steiner

Austrian spiritualist

Étienne-Louis Boullée: church drawing

Étienne-Louis Boullée

French architect

Hôtel de Ville (town hall), Metz, France, by Jacques-François Blondel, 1765.

Jacques-François Blondel

French architect

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Ray Kappe

American architect and educator

Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan

American architect

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Antoni Gaudí

Spanish architect

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Scottish architect and designer

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Victor, Baron Horta

Belgian architect

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Charles Francis Annesley Voysey

British architect and designer

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Joseph Olbrich

German architect

Place des Abbesses metro station, Paris

Hector Guimard

French architect

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Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach

Austrian architect

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Ivan Illich

Austrian philosopher and priest

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Hans Hollein

Austrian architect

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Richard Joseph Neutra

Austrian-American architect

Garden facade of Belvedere Palace, Vienna, by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt

Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt

Austrian architect

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Matthias Zdarsky

Austrian athlete

Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.

Architecture: The Built World

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Artists, Painters, & Architects