J.M. Olbrich - key Building:
Secession House, Vienna, Austria
1896-98

scanned photo from 1991 © architect adrian welch
Beautiful gold-coloured metal tracery dome and wedding cake form-making decorated with gold Jugendstil motifs
J M Olbrich Architect : Austrian Building

J.M. Olbrich (1867-1908)
German architect

Joseph Maria Olbrich was born in Silesia

Education:
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Tutor: Otto Wagner

Rome Prize winner

Early Practice:
Joined Otto Wagner office

Founding member of Vienna Secession + Wiener Werkstate.
Secessionist architect - strong relationship to Art Nouveau

Artists' Colony at Darmstadt, Germany
Set up in 1899 for Grand Duke of Hesse

Olbrich died in Düsseldorf, Germany

Austrian Architecture



German Architect

Links re J.M. Olbrich:
Richard Neutra architect
Josef Hoffmann architect

J.M. Olbrich : German architect



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