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The Other Modern: Otto Schöntal

The Viennese architect Otto Schöntal was a student of Otto Wagner at the Academy of Fine Arts and exhibited this project for a Schloßkapelle in the periodical Moderne Bauformen in 1908.

It combines a simplicity of form with greater complexity in its decoration but like the work of many of the more mid-ranking architects of the Secession it comes across as a bit rigid and angular despite a certain freeness in its design.

Published at 8:50 pm on Monday 29 March 2021. Categories: Architecture Austria Errant Thoughts Tags: , , , .
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Love it. Puts me in mind of the Church of the Holy Spirit, Javorca, Slovinia, designed by Remigius Geyling and built by Austro-Hungarian troops as memorial to those who had died on the Italian front following the Battle of Isonzo. Here’s a link to the not entirely satisfactory website: https://www.javorca.info/en/

— DNJ McGlone 25 Jun 2021 9:15 am
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