DU2404 Otto Wagner, his pupils and the transformation of architecture around 1900

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jan Galeta, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Jan Galeta, Ph.D.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 12:00–13:40 K31, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the situation in the field of architecture around 1900 but also in the previous decades of the 19th century. In this way they will deepen their knowledge of Bc. studies in architectural history, especially with regard to one of the fundamental sources of modern architecture, which the work of Otto Wagner and his pupils represents.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students will be able to orient themselves in the beginnings of modern architecture in Austria-Hungary and especially in our territory. Above all - orient themselves in the roots of modern architecture around 1900
- understand and comprehend the different architectural approaches from historicism to modernism
- to improve in art historical analysis
- apply their analytical and interpretative knowledge to research architecture in a Central European context.
- to discern contemporary architectural theory and practice
Syllabus
  • Otto Wagner "before" Otto Wagner
  • Otto Wagner "modern" architect and the book Modern Architecture
  • Wagner's two villas and the fight for the museum
  • The Postal Savings Bank
  • Otto Wagner and urban planning
  • Wagner's collaborators Josef Maria Olbrich and Max Fabiani
  • Wagner School at the Academy
  • Wagner's pupils - J. Hoffmann and L. Bauer
  • Wagner's pupils - the Gessner brothers and Jože Plečnik
  • Wagner's pupils - Jan Kotěra
  • Wagner's pupils in Croatia
  • Wagner's pupils on the periphery Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Literature
    required literature
  • VYBÍRAL, Jindřich. Mladí mistři : architekti ze školy Otto Wagnera na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Vyd. 1. Praha: Argo, 2002, 277 s. ISBN 807203474X. info
    not specified
  • ALOFSIN, Anthony. When buildings speak : architecture as language in the Habsburg Empire and its aftermath, 1867-1933. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2006, xi, 326. ISBN 0226015068. info
  • ZATLOUKAL, Pavel. Příběhy z dlouhého století : architektura let 1750-1918 na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Olomouc: Muzeum umění Olomouc, 2002, 702 s. ISBN 8085227495. info
  • MORAVÁNSZKY, Ákos. Competing visions : aesthetic invention and social imagination in Central European architecture, 1867-1918. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998, xv, 508. ISBN 0262133342. info
Teaching methods
lecture, discussion
Assessment methods
Colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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