The exhibition in Ostrava will present architects Wagner and Deininger

At the Ostrava Museum, two new exhibitions will be on display starting from May 15. The first focuses on photographs by Walter Zednicek, which capture the works of the significant architect Otto Wagner.
The second will present Salzburg buildings and furniture created based on the designs of one of Wagner's students - architect and designer Wunibald Deininger.

The opening of the joint exhibition will take place at the Ostrava Museum on May 14 at 5 PM.
Otto Wagner was a prominent architect at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. His work became a defining element in nearly all areas of architectural art. Austrian photographer Walter Zednicek photographed Otto Wagner's buildings as Wagner would have liked to see them. It would indeed be possible to also show how later generations "disfigured" some of his buildings. However, the goal of this exhibition is not to criticize subsequent insensitive interventions but to present Otto Wagner, as he still has much to say even today.
The significance of Otto Wagner's pedagogical influence extends beyond the reach of his own works. His collaborators and students spread and refined Wagner's architectural thinking throughout Central Europe, many of them in the Czech Republic: Josef Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann, Josip Plečnik, Jan Kotěra, Leopold Bauer, and Hubert Gessner.

The concurrent exhibition prepared by the Salzburg Museum presents Salzburg buildings and furniture created based on the designs of one of Wagner's students - architect and designer Wunibald Deininger. This significant representative of Austrian architecture created his own style from the tradition and modernism, and his work oscillates between functionalism and ornamentation, expressionism and objectivity.

The Ostrava Museum has supplemented the exhibition with period and contemporary photographs of buildings not only by Wunibald Deininger but also by other Wagner students (such as Otokar Bém and František Fiala), who left their distinct mark on the architectural landscape of Ostrava.

Both exhibitions at the Ostrava Museum (Masarykovo náměstí 1) will run until July 13, 2008. They will be accessible from Monday to Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM, on Saturday from 9 AM to 1 PM, and on Sunday from 1 PM to 5 PM.

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