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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
World Architecture : e-architect
- a guide to key buildings across the globe
Vienna Buildings
Austrian Architects
Comments / photos for the J.M. Olbrich Architecture page welcome:
info@e-architect.co.uk
J.M. Olbrich, architect
- page: adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
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