Art Nouveau Mosaic

I recently discovered this beautiful Art Nouveau mosaic by Leopold Forstner on a façade in the 4th district.

Façade Detail #41

An atlas at the entrance of the baroque Caprara-Geymüller Palace in the city center. Please click here for his "colleague" on the other side of the doorway.

British Façade Detail

Instead of doing my usual evening bicycle tour, on Saturday I preferred to sit on a bench in a park, enjoy the quiet atmosphere and do some reading. Because of road works I had to make a little detour on my way home, and in one of the unfamiliar streets I discovered this interesting façade detail. I don't have any explanation for this "decoration", but it's a perfect subject to depict the fact that Great Britain is currently a central topic...

Façade Detail #40

An impressive atlas at the entrance of an apartment building in the 4th district.

Façade Detail #39

The mosaic on the facade of this apartment building in the 19th district depicts the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Probus. He revoked Rome's exclusive right to plant noble vine, and he employed the soldiers in time of peace on useful works, such as the planting of vineyards in Gaul, Pannonia and other districts, in order to restart the economy in these devastated lands. The 19th district is a wine-growing district within Vienna's city limit.

Façade Detail #38

A beautiful caryatid on a late-historicist building in the city center.

Wisteria and Façade Detail

He doesn't seem very happy about the blooming wisteria...

Façade Detail #37

The head office of the National Bank of Austria in Vienna was designed by architects Ferdinand Glaser and Rudolf Eisler in the style of late classicism and inaugurated in 1925. On top of the main entrance you can see these beautiful decorations.

Façade Detail #36

It's been a while since I have shown you an atlas.  This one adorns a façade in the city center.

Façade Detail #35

Interesting details on the façade of an apartment building in the 12th district.

Façade Detail #34

Female angels sounding the trumpets on the façade of a building in the city center.

Façade Detail #33

An Art Nouveau tree on the façade of an apartment building in the 7th district.

Façade Detail #32

A beautiful façade in Praterstraße in the 2nd district. I would love to live in such a gorgeous building one day...

Façade Detail #31

I just can't get enough of  atlantes ;-) Here we have two impressive exemplars on the façade of Palais Sturany in Ringstrasse.

Façade Detail #30

An atlas on the façade of a building in the city center.

Façade Detail #29

Beautiful details on the façade of an apartment building in the 2nd district.

Façade Detail #28

 A beautiful Art Nouveau façade in the the 3rd district.

Façade Detail #27

I love to find interesting and/or beautiful details on the Viennese façades. During my last walk in the 19th district this coat of arms and the inscription "Voluntas Ferrea" (Iron will) caught my eyes. Unfortunately I couldn't find any information about this mansion on the internet.

Façade Detail #26

A detail of the neo-Gothic parsonage of St. Elisabeth in the fourth district.

Façade Detail #25

This painting on the façade of a gothic middle-class house in the city center dates back to the first half of the16th century and was rediscovered in 1978/79. It shows a cow with glasses and a wolf playing a board game together.