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44-401: Villa Wartholz was designed by Heinrich von Ferstel in the historicist style in the years 1870 to 1872 for Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria . The castle-like building with towers was for recreational purposes, not for military means. The villa was designed with a view over the valley. Karl Ludwig spent so much time in this area, he reserved this place only for hunting by the imperial court. It

88-744: A joint branch—the Josef Hoffmann Museum . The museum presents its collection in a permanent exhibition and, at the same time, temporary exhibitions about Josef Hoffmann and his contemporaries. In 1994, the MAK founded the branch MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, USA. The center is located in three important buildings of the Viennese architect Rudolph M. Schindler in Los Angeles ( Rudolph Schindler House , Pearl M. Mackey Apartment House, Fitzpatrick-Leland House). The focus

132-738: A number of private dwellings and villas in Brünn and Vienna. The more important buildings designed during his later years (passing over the churches at Schonau near Teplitz , really products of his earlier activity) are the palace of Archduke Ludwig Victor , his winter palace in Klessheim , the palace of Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein in the Rossau near Vienna, the palace of the Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's, in Trieste , but above all

176-750: A repositioning of the Permanent Collection Carpets with an artistic intervention by Füsun Onur and a repositioning of the Permanent Collection Asia, whose artistic design was entrusted to Tadashi Kawamata in 2014 and 2016, took place. The building in the Weiskirchnerstraße is reserved for temporary exhibitions, while the rooms at Stubenring host the permanent collections and the MAK DESIGN LAB. In accordance with its historical justification,

220-596: A vital role in building late 19th-century Vienna . The son of Ignaz Ferstel (1796–1866), a bank clerk and later director of the Austrian national bank in Prague , Heinrich Ferstel, after wavering for some time between the different arts, finally decided on architecture. From 1847 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Eduard van der Nüll and August Sicard von Sicardsburg . After several years during which he

264-550: A wide range of digital offerings. Data on the collection or the in-house publications are released for research and formats such as the MAK-Digistories or the MAK-Blog provide information on a wide variety of topics. The audio guide is provided free of charge in the form of a web-based app. With its MAK Collection Online the MAK makes large parts of its collection accessible to the public: With over 300.000 objects,

308-529: Is on new trends and interdisciplinary developments in the fields of fine arts and architecture which are expedited through scholarships and projects and are expanded through temporary exhibitions. One important sphere of influence of the MAK is its presentation in public space. The museum actively supports contemporary artists, whose works are mostly presented in an exhibition in the MAK building and later as works of art in Vienna's urban space in order to mediate at

352-487: The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology as a non-university research partner. The second Vienna Biennale took place from 21 June to 1 October 2017. The third Vienna Biennale took place from 29 May until 6 October 2019, the fourth from 28 May until 3 October 2021. In 2016, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein was appointed Director or rather General Director and artistic director of the MAK for another 5 years. At

396-721: The Austrian Museum for Applied Art (completed in 1871), with its imposing arcaded court. Next comes the University of Vienna (1871–84). He was also an author of the project of the reconstruction in the Neo-Gothic style the evangelical Church's of Saviour in Bielsko (1881–1882). Through a technical error his design for the Berlin Reichstag building received no award. In 1866 Ferstel was appointed professor at

440-504: The Geymüllerschlössel in Vienna's 18th district was affiliated to the museum and became a new branch. At the same time as the building, the MAK also acquired Dr. Franz Sobek's important clock collection (160 Old-Viennese clocks from the time between 1750 and the second half of the 19th century) as well as furniture from the years 1800 to 1840. In the late 1980s, parts of the wall paintings were returned to their original state in

484-584: The Helmut Lang Archive, which shows the artistic highlights with selected designs. The newly created passageways and modular units lead to a connecting spatial experience and allow rapid adaptation to changing requirements. The MAK Forum forms a flexibly usable space, which is used as a meeting place as well as an experimental area for exhibitions and mediation formats. In the MAK Works on Paper Room temporary exhibitions take place—mostly from

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528-487: The Polytechnic School , in 1871 chief government inspector of public works and in 1879 was raised to the rank of Freiherr . Museum f%C3%BCr angewandte Kunst Wien The MAK – Museum of Applied Arts (German: Museum für angewandte Kunst ) is an arts and crafts museum located at Stubenring 5 in Vienna's 1st district Innere Stadt . Besides its traditional orientation towards arts and crafts and design,

572-486: The "State Arts and Crafts Museum" also expanded in this way. Since 1998, numerous works of art have been restituted to their owners as a result of provenance research. In 1947, the " Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum in Wien " (State Arts and Crafts Museum) was renamed " Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst " (Austrian Museum of Applied Arts). In 1949, the museum reopened following the repair of war-related damage. In 1965,

616-478: The 15th century until today. The Works on Paper Collection comprises ornamental engravings, posters, photos, hand drawings, watercolors, and plans as well as hand drawings from the archives of the Wiener Werkstätte. The MAK Contemporary Art Collection serves as a presentation room for contemporary projects by international artists, i. a. engaging with topics from the fin de siècle period. The MAK has

660-710: The Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry). From 1898 to 1921, however, the Museum Journal was published with the new name Kunst und Kunsthandwerk and soon gained international reputation. The museum began publishing the periodical alte und moderne kunst (old and modern art). After the establishment of the First Republic, the holdings previously in the possession of the Habsburgs—e.g. oriental carpets—were handed over to

704-580: The MAK Design Lab, almost 2,000 exhibits – divided into themed islands – have created a newly conceived showcase in the entire basement of the museum for lifelike references between historical arts and crafts and contemporary design. Interactive thematic areas form an illustrative course on areas such as cooking (including a replica of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky 's Frankfurt kitchen ), eating and drinking, sitting, artistic, industrial and alternative production, transporting, communicating and ornament, and

748-831: The MAK Permanent collection is divided into different sections according to its functional purpose. Highlights of the collection are the holdings of the Wiener Werkstätte , chairs by Thonet and Kohn , furniture by Danhauser , Gustav Klimt 's cartoons for the Mosaic Frieze of Stoclet Palace , Du Paquier's Porcelain Cabinet chamber from Dubsky Palace, a collection of Bohemian and Venetian glass, Flemish and Italian lace, silver, porcelain and carpets as well as Chinese porcelain, Japanese colored woodcuts ( Ukiyo-e ) and Japanese printing stencils ( Katagami ). On

792-566: The MAK presents the largest online collection within the Austrian Federal Museums. The audio guide to this museum is provided as a web-based app. On 7 March 1863, the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry – today's MAK—was founded by Emperor Franz Joseph I. Rudolf von Eitelberger , the first Professor of art history at the University of Vienna , was appointed director. Following

836-572: The MAK shows the largest online collection within the Austrian Federal Museums. Over 50.000 pages of the MAK's journals are available online . Since May 2017, the MAK with its collection highlights can also be visited virtually on Google Arts & Culture : Gigapixel images of Gustav Klimt 's design drawings for the execution of a frieze in the dining room of the Stoclet Palace in Brussels (1910–1911) can be seen as well as parts of

880-802: The Museum. In 1936 and 1940, the Museum on Stubenring gave part of its sculpture collection to the Kunsthistorisches Museum [Museum of Art History]. In exchange, it received the arts and crafts section of the collections of Albert Figdor and of the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Following Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany, the museum was renamed " Staatliches Kunstgewerbemuseum in Wien " (State Arts and Crafts Museum in Vienna). Between 1939 and 1945, Austria's museums take over several confiscated private collections. The collection of

924-481: The course of the renovation of the façade. The subsequent rearrangement of the furniture and the extraordinary clock collection in the rooms of the Geymüllerschlössel have provided visitors with an authentic insight into the diversity of Biedermeier interior decorating until today. The Arenbergpark Flak Tower—one of the six flak towers erected in Vienna during World War II —became an additional branch of

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968-555: The example of London's South Kensington Museum (today's Victoria and Albert Museum ) which was founded in 1852, the museum aims at serving as an exemplary collection for artists, industrialists, and the public and as an institution for education and training of designers and craftspeople. The museum opened on 12 May 1864, at first provisionally in rooms of the Ballhaus building next to the Vienna Hofburg, which were adapted for

1012-524: The figures on the outer façade were recreated by students of Karl Karger of the School of Applied Arts. In 1875 the Austrian Museum was joined by an adjacent new building for the School of Applied Arts at Stubenring 3, whose plans were also drawn up by Heinrich von Ferstel. It was opened in 1877. In 1906, Ludwig Baumann designed an extension building for the museum located at Weiskirchnerstraße 3, it

1056-544: The holdings of the Library and the Works on Paper Collection—with a richness of topics presenting posters, architecture projects, style imitations, and Japanese woodblock prints, for example. The MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection conveys information about all areas of applied art. The literature encompasses the time from the 16th century up to the present with some manuscripts, incunabulas, and printed works ranging from

1100-593: The interface between art and public space. International artists such as James Turrell (MAKlite, Permanent installation on the façade of the MAK since 2004, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna ), Michael Kienzer (Stylit, 2005, Stubenring/Weiskirchnerstraße, 1010 Vienna ), Franz West (4 Larvae (Lemur Heads) 2001, Stubenbrücke, 1010 Vienna ), Donald Judd (Stage Set, 1996, Stadtpark, 1030 Vienna ) and Philip Johnson (Wiener Trio, 1998, Franz-Josefs-Kai/Schottenring, opposite Ringturm , 1010 Vienna ) have been represented. In 2000, Austria's federal museums were removed from state administration;

1144-523: The museum and at the School of Arts and Crafts. Due to conflicts between Scala and the Arts and Crafts Association (founded in 1884), who sees his influence on the museum beginning to wane, Archduke Rainer resigns 1898 as the museum's protector. New statutes were drawn up. Two years later, around 1900, the museum and the School of Arts and Crafts each received their own separate administration, although their final separation did not take place until 1909: The museum

1188-654: The museum became a "public-law academic institution". In 2015, the MAK initiated the Vienna Biennale , the first Biennale to combine art, design and architecture. It lasted from 11 June to 4 October 2015 and was initiated by the MAK in partnership with the University of Applied Arts Vienna , Kunsthalle Wien , the Architekturzentrum Wien , and the Vienna Business Agency, creative center departure, and organized with support from

1232-458: The museum especially focuses on architecture and contemporary art . The museum has been at its current location since 1871. Since 2004 the building is illuminated in the evenings by the permanent outdoor installation "MAKlite" of American artist James Turrell . In 2015 the MAK became the first museum to use bitcoin to acquire art, when it purchased the screensaver "Event listeners" of van den Dorpel . With over 300,000 objects displayed online,

1276-927: The museum in 1994 and since 1995 has served as the MAK Contemporary Art Depot (MAK Tower), which hosts major parts of the Contemporary Art Collection of the museum. Currently, the MAK Tower is closed to the public due to a lack of official approval. After a MAK exhibition about Josef Hoffmann in 1992 in his house of birth in Brtnice/Pirnitz ( Czech Republic ), contact with the Moravian Gallery in Brno (Czech Republic) has been intensified. Finally, since 2006 both institutions have managed Hoffmann's birthplace as

1320-399: The name waiting . This cross is from the period around 1500. Since 2008, the castle holds an annual Wartholz literature competition. 47°41′54″N 15°49′35″E  /  47.69833°N 15.82639°E  / 47.69833; 15.82639 Heinrich von Ferstel Freiherr Heinrich von Ferstel (7 July 1828 – 14 July 1883) was an Austrian architect and professor, who played

1364-679: The occasion of its 150th anniversary, the MAK positioned itself more clearly than ever before as a museum for arts and the everyday world. Until 2014, the MAK Study Collection presented part of its extensive holdings in a material-specific technological order. In the course of this repositioning of the former study collection, MAK cooperated with the Austrian design team EOOS and the IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna in order to make cross-links between 21st century art and earlier epochs directly tangible. Since its transformation into

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1408-547: The purpose of the museum by architect Heinrich von Ferstel . With the establishment of the k.k. Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule (Vienna School of Arts and Crafts) in 1867, theoretical and practical training was united. At first, the school was housed in the former gun factory at Währinger Straße 11–13/Schwarzspanierstraße 17 (nowadays the Anatomical Institute of the Medical University of Vienna which

1452-554: The same time, Teresa Mitterlehner-Marchesani—in the course of the introduction of joint management of the Austrian Federal Museums—was appointed managing director. In 2021 Lilli Hollein was appointed General Director and Artistic Director – she is the first female director in the MAK's history. From 1869, a new museum complex for the Imperial Royal Museum of Art and Industry was built at Stubenring 5 in

1496-541: The style of the Early Renaissance (1856–60), known as the Palais Ferstel . Designing public buildings in the inner city and Ringstrasse area, the expansion of the city of Vienna enabled Ferstel, with Rudolf Eitelberger , to develop civic architecture along artistic lines ( Burgomaster 's residence, Stock Exchange 1859). At the same time he had also the opportunity of putting his ideas into practice in

1540-548: The style of the Neo-Renaissance , according to plans by Heinrich von Ferstel . The painter Ferdinand Laufberger made a frieze in sgraffito and the fresco paintings on the mirror vault of the staircase. On 15 November 1871, the museum opened to the public within a big opening. It was the first museum building on the Vienna Ring Road. Laufberger's cartoons were lost, and so around 1893 the mural painting of

1584-606: Was awarded the prize in the competition for the Votive Church ( Votivkirche ) in Vienna (1855) over 74 contestants. He built it between 1856 and 1879. After his death it was proposed by Sir Tatton Sykes as a model for the new Westminster Cathedral in London. Another of Ferstel's monumental works belonging to the same period is the head office of the Austrian National Bank and stock exchange in Vienna, in

1628-651: Was born in Villa Wartholz. His baptism and first Communion were received in the chapel, which was located in the villa. On 17 August 1917, Emperor Charles held a ceremony where he handed over the Military Order of Maria Theresa to 24 officers, among them Kövess , Dankl , Arz , Johann Haas von Haagenfels , Wenzel von Wurm , Cavallar and Banfield . Due to the Habsburg Law the Wartholz villa

1672-686: Was built near by his home Karl-Ludwig-Haus on the Rax . This area around Reichenau was a popular tourist area for the aristocratic society since the construction of the Southern Railway . Members of the imperial family, and other members of the nobility, artists and scientists met at the Villa Wartholz. Nearby another palace subsequently arose, the Schloss Rothschild. The villa also was used by Emperor Charles I of Austria and Empress Zita . Their son, Otto von Habsburg (1912 – 2011)

1716-598: Was completed in 1908. After World War II repair of war-related damage to the museum building lasted until 1949. In 1989, a complete renovation of the museum's old buildings and construction of both a two-story underground depot and a connecting wing by with a generous storage facility and additional exhibition space began. After this renovation, the museum opened in 1993. Its showrooms were designed by artists such as Barbara Bloom , Eichinger or Knechtl, Günther Förg , Gangart, Franz Graf, Jenny Holzer , Donald Judd , Peter Noever , Manfred Wakolbinger and Heimo Zobernig . In 2014,

1760-600: Was in Italy, however, where he was sent as a bursar in 1854, that he was converted to the Renaissance style of architecture, and his admiration for Bramante . He began to use polychromy by means of Graffito decoration and terracotta. This device, adapted from the Early Renaissance and intended to convey a fuller sense of life, he employed later in the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts . While still in Italy he

1804-574: Was in disrepute because of his part in the 1848 Revolution , he finished his studies in 1850 and entered the atelier of his uncle, Friedrich August von Stache, where he worked at the votive altar for the chapel of St. Barbara in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna and co-operated in the restoration and construction of many castles, chiefly in Bohemia . Journeys of some length into Germany, Belgium, Holland, and England confirmed his tendency towards Romanticism . It

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1848-568: Was newly constructed in 1886). Only after the construction of an extension next to the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry , did the school move to Stubenring 3 in 1877. 1897, Arthur von Scala, until then director of the Royal Middle Eastern Museum (later Royal Austrian Trade Museum ), takes over as director of the Museum of Art and Industry, bringing Otto Wagner , Felician von Myrbach , Koloman Moser , Josef Hoffmann and Alfred Roller on board to work at

1892-454: Was owned by the Austrian state. The Habsburgs staked a claim of private ownership and for many years this was a point of contention whether they would be reinstituted as owners. In 1973, the government sold the mansion to the State of Lower Austria . From this it was again sold in 1982 and is now privately owned. The name derives from a cross on a nearby late-Gothic object, Wayside shrine with

1936-615: Was placed under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture and Education, the school stayed at the Royal Ministry of Cultus and Education. In 1907, the Museum of Art and Industry took over most of the collection of the Royal Austrian Trade Museum. From 1865 to 1897, the Museum of Art and Industry also published the magazine Mittheilungen des k. k. Österreichischen Museums für Kunst und Industrie (Transactions of

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