Otto Wagner

Otto Koloman Wagner (13 July 1841–11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect.

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Wagner was born in Penzing, a suburb of Vienna. He studied in Berlin and Vienna. In 1864, he started designing his first buildings in the historicist style. In 1884, he became a teacher in the school of architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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In 1890s, he designed several building in Art Nouveau style. He was very interested in urban planning - in 1890 he designed a new city plan for Vienna, but only his urban rail network, the Stadtbahn, was built.

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In 1897, Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser founded the "Vienna Secession" artistic group.

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Wagner died in Vienna.

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Robert Wagner	Richard Wagner	Lindsay Wagner	Otto Takes Rome
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