Style and Seduction
Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
336 pages
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6 1/4 x 9 1/4
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Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations • Acknowledgments • Introduction • The Historicists, 1860s–70s: Eduard von Todesco, Gustav von Epstein, and Their Neo-Renaissance Palaces on the Ringstrasse • The Secessionists, 1897–1902: Ludwig Hevesi, Karl Wittgenstein and the Secession House, and Friedrich Victor Spitzer’s Music Salon • The Modernists, 1902–7: Isidor Singer and Heinrich Kanner and the Telegraph Office of Die Zeit, Fritz Waerndorfer’s House for the Art Lover, the Wiener Werkstätte and the Cabaret Fledermaus, and the Richard Beer-Hofmann Villa • The Avant-Gardists, 1908–11: Peter Altenberg’s Portrait in the American Bar and Leopold Goldman and the Goldman & Salatsch House • Conclusion • Notes • Bibliography • Index
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