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Josef Löwy, Collotype of the MAK Columned Main Hall of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, Vienna 1894, KI 17884-1 ©MAK

Josef Löwy, Collotype of the MAK Columned Main Hall of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, Vienna 1894, KI 17884-1 ©MAK

Heinrich von Ferstel, Facade design for the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, 1867, Inv. No. KI 14918 © MAK

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Ferdinand Laufberger, Design for the ceiling fresco in the staircase of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, 1867-1871, KI 3978-392-1 © MAK

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Research Project

A Prototype Building for the Applied Arts

150 Years of the Museum on the Stubenring
Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive 
With the participation of Peter Klinger, Stephanie Rosenkranz
The project traces the architectural and historical background to the building of the first museum on the Vienna Ringstraße, from its design in 1869 to its completion in 1871. In this prototype building for the applied arts, the renowned Ringstraße architect Heinrich von Ferstel planned a total artwork down to the smallest detail. 
In order to realize his architectural concept in the style of the Florentine Renaissance as a stylistic whole, von Ferstel gathered together students and professors from the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts to build and furnish the museum: it features frescoes and stencil painting by Ferdinand Laufberger, as well as building sculptures and interiors by Karl Karger, Peter Isella, and August Eisenmenger. The results of the project will be compiled in a booklet and uploaded to a MAK app.
 
Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive 
With the participation of Peter Klinger, Stephanie Rosenkranz
 

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