Otto Wagner student fashioned the structure of Slovenia

The exhibition “Slovenia. Journey of discovery – Plečnik and his timeless language of shape” in Vienna’s Ringturm indicates the work of the architect Jože Plečnik until September fifteenth.

The architect Jože Plečnik (1872 – 1957) worked no longer handiest in Vienna and Prague however also in Slovenia, in particular in his native city of Ljubljana, wherein he promoted urban making plans. This is how the two-storey market rectangular, the Žale Central Cemetery, wherein Plečnik himself became buried, and the university library (picture above) with its purple brick facade got here into being. The exhibition “Slovenia. Journey of discovery – Plečnik and his timeless design vocabulary” within the Ringturm in Vienna (1st ground, Schottenring 30) is displaying lesser-recognised works in addition to the architect’s major Slovenian works until September 15th.

Jože Plečnik is the maximum crucial and influential discern in Slovenian structure inside the first 1/2 of the twentieth century. As a graduate of the Otto Wagner School in Vienna, after ten years as a instructor at the School of Applied Arts in Prague and because the architect of the nearby fortress, which he masterfully adapted as the reliable house for the President, Plečnik again to his place of origin. In specific, the time that Plečnik spent in Prague was of excellent have an effect on on his paintings in Slovenia. From 1921 he created severa works for the duration of the usa there, that are provided in Schau l.

Shaped cityscape

The duration among the 2 global wars may be defined as the golden age of Slovenian city planning and the emergence of Plečnik’s Laibach, which presented the architect almost limitless opportunities for the belief of his thoughts. For instance, he carefully selected the city’s trees in terms of length, form and coloration of the crowns, due to the fact for him they have been an identical a part of the architecture. Evidence of this is, as an example, the lyrical person of the prom alongside the Ljubljanica River in Trnovo (1932–33), followed by means of weeping willows, or the layout of the square near the Church of St. James (1926–38), in which it's far decorated with a row of poplars devoted to it displeasing historicist church facade included.

Second World War

Without a doubt, Plečnik’s main work of this period is the building of the University Library (1936–1941), which additionally became the National and University Library after the Second World War. In doing so, he commemorated the Auersperg Palace, which turned into destroyed by way of the earthquake in 1895 and as soon as ruled the old city of Ljubljana. By alternating stone and vivid crimson bricks, he executed a color effect on the facade that, in line with Plečnik, was function of the numerous production of local karst houses. With the sticking out English windows and the 2 portals, he indicated the folds of a “textile”-looking facade, which illustrates a carpet stretched over the complete constructing.